I was reading my current email from HalfWheel this morning regarding the above captioned information:
http://halfwheel.com/ipcpr-2014-day-two-recap/65675
and was wondering why individuals have so much faith in their own community, and not to suspect that there may just be a couple of "rotten" apples in the bunch?
As always, if there is opportunity, motive, and means, a crime may be just around the corner. In essence, you take away the opportunity and possibly, those Undercrown Flying Pigs do not grow wings and fly away.
We do place faith in our cigar and pipe community with trust. Just go to any herf and see all of the unattended travel humidors and accessories laying around on the table(s). Yet we feel secure in knowing that our fellow BOTL/SOTL will not violate those humidors with theft. Its a common respect that we have for one anothers personal property, and that's cool
The above concern at the IPCPR did not have to occur if only the vendor and/or promoters would have hired a top notch security firm, made sure that their own product was locked away during and after the show, and also would have had their own security on premise watching the product like a red tailed hawk.
Having security is simply a deterent and way of removing "opportunity."