Stolen side mount tanks

[irene]

Sadly, two of my side mount tanks have disappeared. They are HP 100s with left-handed valves
marked Odell 2 and Odell 4

serials numbers:
3400825
3400808

I've been unemployed since December and can't afford to replace them, so I'd be very, very happy to have these returned. I will not press charges if they are returned. You can always drop them off to the place they were stolen from. On a busy weekend, nobody will notice, or have a friend drop them off.

Please, do the right thing.

[HeloDriver]

I'm sorry to hear of your loss. Perhaps if you post where they were nicked from it will jog someones memory.

[JCGoodwin]

Sorry Irene I really hope you get them back.
It is pretty tough to mistake your gear from someone else's and I have NO MERCY for the culprit!
I hope he or she is identified and let nature take its course.
I have been in busy dive locations and watched others pick through gear that did not belong to them.
In these instances I went off and they moved on rather quickly!
It just plain sucks when you have to have your gear strapped on or in immediate view to keep it from walking away!

JCG

[stairman]

That is a punch in the gut Im sure. Sadly I doubt if the thieves are on this forum though. Good luck gettng em back.

[TONY CHANEY]

Sadly I doubt if the thieves are on this forum though.

Let's hope not. Sorry for your lost but, I think if I were you I would take Charles' suggestion and post the dive location.

[irene]

THanks for the kind thoughts everyone. The tanks were stolen from a shop, not a dive site. Out of kindness for the owners, I'm going to refrain from naming it.
Since it is a shop, it would be very easy for someone to return them . . . or to have a friend drop them off. I'm not interested in causing problems for anyone who may have initially intended to "borrow" them...I just want them back.

PM me if you want to make private arrangements. No questions asked.

[Sludge]

In both of the shops where I work, key employees are allowed to just take any tanks we want whenever we want to use them. We're *supposed* to make sure they're SHOP tanks, not CUSTOMER tanks.

Hopefully, that's what happened to yours.

[K Mejean]

We can do the same at my shop I work with. We don't take customer tanks though. It could easily be done if the shop is busy enough. I hope that is the case for you.

[diveconjeff]

I had tanks that were "removed" from a dive shop. Apparently someone else needed them more than I did. In my case the owner of the shop made things right for me.

Has the owner made no mention of setting things right for you? That seems a bit odd...

Curious, was other gear taken, or just your tanks. In my case they were apparently after LP 95's specifically.

[FW]

I agree, if you left the tanks there for service, and got a service tag, or some other receipt, then the shop owner should replace them.