[Scan-DC] How much do radios cost?

[Doug Kitchener]

Interesting... could it have been $40,000?  A couple of other things strike me... first of all I'd think it would take a little bit of time to steal 44 radios... second, it seems to me that unloading 44 of them at once would draw some attention.

(Not dash-mounted and no damage... years ago the old MoTrac radios could be removed with a key... are the current ones still like that?)



----- Original Message -----
> From: Blair Thompson <b_thom at juno.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:54 AM
> Subject: [Scan-DC] How much do radios cost?
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>T his happened in Kelso, Washington, which is between Portland and Seattle. 
> Radios were taken from 44 buses. The value was nearly $4,000. Less than $100 per 
> radio? Maybe they really were CB radios.
> -- -- -- --
> 
> Dozens of two-way radios stolen from Kelso School District garage
> 
> By The Daily News The Daily News Online | Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:15 
> pm | No Comments Posted 
> 
> Kelso police are looking for the unidentified burglar or burglars who entered 
> the Kelso School District's fenced bus garage over the weekend and stole 
> Motorola two-way radios from 44 of the 51 school buses.
> 
> The central dispatcher and bus drivers use the CB-style radios to communicate, 
> said Jim Biwer, director of business and operations for the Kelso School 
> District. For instance, if a parent calls the dispatcher to say a child will be 
> a little late getting to the bus stop, the dispatcher can ask the driver to 
> wait, he said.
> 
> The radios weren't dash-mounted, so the buses suffered no damage, he said. 
> The theft, estimated at nearly $4,000, is covered by insurance, he said.
> 
> 
> 
> Read more: 
> http://tdn.com/news/local/dozens-of-two-way-radios-stolen-from-kelso-school-district/article_5d7aebb4-8e6b-11e1-bd04-001a4bcf887a.html
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