OK, we are getting ready for league tournaments in North Dakota. A friend of mine had his cue case stolen with cues in it last year, and I've been thinking of ways to minimize chance of theft.
I prefer to carry my own case at all times, but when I'm playing a game, I've left my cues with my teammates or friends and never had a problem. I know a lot of people that put their cues in one spot and assume one of them is watching or that they would notice if someone was acting suspicious. This poor guy got bit doing this.
Has anyone used any new tracker device to keep track of your cue case? Luggage tracker? Asset tracker? GPS tracker?
Many of those things don't seem to alert you when it disappears from the phone's range, they just try to locate it. It could be gone and cues stolen out of the case in no time before you know to start tracking it. GPS probably not effective without wifi tracking indoors. Something that alerts when a distance fence is reached seems best.
Any thoughts? Any other out-of-box thinking on helping the local poolplaying community prevent theft as a whole? I saw one neighborhood organize everyone to start leaving decoy delivery boxes on their porch so that thieves would get tired of stealing boxes of rocks or old car parts. I was thinking of a way to have some decoy cases with crappy old cues, but don't want to carry extra cases around.
I prefer to carry my own case at all times, but when I'm playing a game, I've left my cues with my teammates or friends and never had a problem. I know a lot of people that put their cues in one spot and assume one of them is watching or that they would notice if someone was acting suspicious. This poor guy got bit doing this.
Has anyone used any new tracker device to keep track of your cue case? Luggage tracker? Asset tracker? GPS tracker?
Many of those things don't seem to alert you when it disappears from the phone's range, they just try to locate it. It could be gone and cues stolen out of the case in no time before you know to start tracking it. GPS probably not effective without wifi tracking indoors. Something that alerts when a distance fence is reached seems best.
Any thoughts? Any other out-of-box thinking on helping the local poolplaying community prevent theft as a whole? I saw one neighborhood organize everyone to start leaving decoy delivery boxes on their porch so that thieves would get tired of stealing boxes of rocks or old car parts. I was thinking of a way to have some decoy cases with crappy old cues, but don't want to carry extra cases around.
