The "ant's" or "bombing" methods to steal small parts

Amigos:

It's obvious that burglars have many ways to steal small valuables anywhere: here in Perú some of the most "popular" methods are:

• digging tunnels to get where the parts are stowed, breaking in and leaving with the valuables the way back.
  
• forcing their entry to warehouses or stores (through doors or windows at night)
• disguising small part under their clothes or other places (known here as the "ant's" method)
  
• throwing small parts over the perimetrical walls to accomplices (the "bombing" method)
  

As I have already posted about the first method, I will explain some typical cases of the "ant's" and the "bombing" methods seen here:


The "ant's" method:

Unloyal workers of a large industy will hide small parts (tools, pens, ink cartidges, tooth pastes, soap, lightning bulbs, etc.) under their clothes or inside small bags or suitcases they usually carry and then assume a "natural" look when they pass through the controls by our guards at the gates of the facility. It is not so rare that a well aware guard will observe that a rather skinny worker ready to go back home looks as if he has, suddenly, gained weight or is wearing a bulky coat in midsummer days; it will be necessary then to politely ask the suspected one to open his bags o his unusual "summercoat" to be sure nothing strange (like the latest cell phone of "Miss Sexy Personnel Manger" or the much appreciated external hard disk of the Security Manager) is being taken out of the factory; perhaps, if the guard takes a closer look inside his, supposedly empty, "thermos" or "tupper" where he brought his luncheon this morning he will find there, "camouflaged" under a used and dirty napkin, the shiny golden "Cross" pen reported missing by the CEO this afternoon. When this kind of burglary is done by several workers we call it the "ant's way" of stealing.

Now I remember something that "marked" me many years ago while still in the Navy: the junior officer responsible for the meals reported that every end of the month he noticed that he was short of beef, so we decided to extreme our controls and after an exhaustive check, one afternoon we found .... a whole cow leg! (some 90 pounds in weight), doubly wrapped in huge plastic bags, was under a large amount of trash ready to be taken on a truck outside of the trainning school where I was posted then.

But if the unloyal worker is a woman..... well ......, things are harder; we have to have a female guard to do the checking, and the lady guard in charge will hear some harsh, outloud and intimidating phrases like "are you a lesbian?", or "why would you like me to show my underwear?", and the like. But we know that in security we have to be the "bad guy of the movie" in order to guarantee our clientes everything goes OK; we will have to use the well known "Garret" metal detectors to prevent this, but then the real bad guys will prefer to steal plastic, but not less valuable, parts.

The "bombing" method:

In large industrial facilities the unloyal employee will agree with an external accomplice that a specific day and hour (lets say: tomorrow at 5:30 p.m.) he will throw a closed black plastic bag containning some valuables (tools, carburators, faxes, and a million more things) in a exact location of a lonely section of the perimetric wall of the facility while he was "only looking for some fresh air"; an accomplice will sure be waiting outside and will pick it up in such a "natural" way that people passing by wouldn't imagine he is doing something illegal at all. A well lit facility and CCTV cameras do a great job against this type of crime (but a couple times we've found that through a 1.1/2" hole on a perimetric wall (inside of a warehouse), a terribly bad worker was passing to a smart accomplice several hundreds yards of a special and costly hose!).

The fight goes on and on .... it never ends!

JSR