Whodunit?

Today there was a minor fiasco at work.  At some point last night one or several vagrants looted 2 of our vans that were in the hotel parking lot and walked away with around $10,000 worth of equipment.   I suspected that it was an inside job by someone from the hotel staff. After the police came and made their investigation.  I went up to my room and did a little investigating of my own.  I devised several unthinkable scenarios, each one more unthinkable than the next.  Who could it have been?  

Could it have been the Concierge, who had access to our personal information and knew our itinerary? 

Could it have been the bartender, who overheard the crew talking about how pricey cameras were getting, and was probably angry because I forgot to tip him at the end of the night on Saturday?   

 Could it have been the maid, who had access to our rooms and thus the keys to the vans, and was probably a little disgruntled because she had to take apart that fort I made?

No, no, no.  My prime suspect was the busboy.  Whenever the crew was loading up into the vans, he was always out back grabbing a smoke.  Him and his shifty eyes.  He saw all the equipment that was going into the vans and decided to capitalize on the opportunity.  That’s our man.

I immediately dashed to the lobby and asked the front desk for the name of the busboy, at which point they told me that the police had found some of the stolen goods in the parking lot of a hotel down the road.  This pretty much threw all my theories into the wind. Apparently the bandits had also raided vehicles at the other hotel and found better stuff than our equipment, so they dumped it.  A multi-vehicle multi-location heist seemed a little out of my league.  So I dropped the case.

There will be other days for the Great Dewey Detective.

That’s all for now.

-Charlie

Anonymous Quote of the Day: It is better to try and fail, than to not try at all.  Except with skydiving.

Yo Mama Joke of the Day:  Yo Mama went swimming in the ocean last Thursday. The ensuing Tsunami killed 214 people and beached  7 humpback whales.