RE: Swap Meet thief.
In my haste to get somewhere once, I left my Futaba Super 8 tx in it's case at the field one day. A friend spotted it, called on my cell, and said he'd set it aside to bring home with him. He called me a 1/2 hr. later and told me someone had taken the case and all. A week later a guy from another field called me. He said that someone tried to sell him my Super 8 at the field. Several of the guys there knew me and told him that they knew whose tx that was, and if they were ever planning on flying in the area again, they should return it. He said he'd just found it, and gave it to them.
Another time I had a battery drill taken from the field, but that time I never saw it again.
Some people have no moral compass, and all the rest of us can do is to watch out for them. CREEPS!