Has anyone experienced theft at the point?

Today myself and three friends took a day trip to the point. We left to go get lunch and noticed my friends purse was missing. We all told her she didn't bring it and it couldn't have been stolen because the gps was still in the car...we didn't notice it was missing until we got back in the car. The car was locked and scratches on the windows show they were forced down. Overall, a gps and a purse containing credit cards, SSN number, etc was taken. I felt real disappointed that somebody would do that. The CP police handled it the best they could (there's really nothing at all they could do). I was wondering if anyone else had a similar experience?

It's a 64 acre parking lot. Theft is bound to happen. Was the GPS and/or purse left in plain site? Or were they both locked in the trunk?

GPS was under the radio. The purse was under the seat. It's sad when you expect theft to happen, it's probably because I never had an experience like this before. I've been pick pocketed in cleveland before and that's the only thing close to this that has happened to me.

Never leave anything in your car in sight that is valuable no matter where you are. I learned that years ago when someone stole my radar detector in Cleveland. Broke the passenger side front window to get it. At least it was the passenger side so I didn't have to sit on glass during the drive home.

That sucks and i'm sorry to hear that happened to you. But it is just like parking anywhere where there is a huge mass of cars together and people with their mind set on going to the park and not paying attention or caring what is going on around them. Not that they would have done anything if they had seen what was going on. Like mentioned above, the trunk with bigger stuff and maybe a locked glove box with the GPS etc.

I'm still shocked ( knock on wood ) that i haven't heard stories of people stealing stuff that people just leave laying around in strollers and lawn chairs in Soak City. I mean, when we are playing with our kids in the water, we have a stroller full of goodies, nothing really that valuable, but sometimes just surprised no one has messed with the stuff. I just walk around and shake my head at what others lay around in plain site, video cameras, digital cameras etc.

My friend had her bag stolen from the platform bin on Magnum last summer. She was the last person on our train to put it in, and the first person to get to the bin at the end of the ride, so we suspected someone from another train went snooping through the other bins. Long story short, she eventually tracked her cell phone down to some shady people who said they found it in a bathroom and wanted her to give them reward money for returning it. I always suspected these people were the ones who took her stuff in the first place, but there was no way to prove it. Several items (drivers license, season pass, car keys) were found in various places around the park and eventually made it to lost and found, but money, credit cards, and the bag its self were never seen again. The CP cops and lost and found people were very helpful though, so I definitely give them credit for that.

I've personally had two car stereos stolen, oddly within 3 months of each other. Both stereos were the cheapest ones Best Buy sold that had CD players in them, so they weren't anything fancy. One happened in a parking garage in Cleveland where they smashed a window, the other a Toledo bowling alley where they punched out the lock. I didn't bother with involving cops in Cleveland, and shouldn't have bothered with the cops in Toledo, as they are totally worthless.

I know I have been lucky and not had anything stolen! I know I always ttry to make sure everything is locked up tight!

Not a cedar point story, but it has a lesson to it. This is how the story goes.

Some Guy bought an expensive car, every night chained the axles to two trees in his front yard. Months went by, every night he'd chain down his expensive car.

One morning he woke up, his car was unchained, windows, rolled down, and the car parked in a different place, with writing on the windows saying.

-if we wanted your car, we'd take it-

He never locked his car again.

I've had some things stolen from my Dorm Room at the point - as it was in the upper level of breakers rotunda at the time - Security couldn't identify if it was a guest or coworker...

Point is, don't take anything that is not critical anywhere or leave it in view... Folks will snatch anything in seconds...

Oh and they like to steal center caps from my Envoy's wheels regularly in the CP parking lot. - Dealer price is $90 a piece. I eventually had them bolted on.

Years ago before Cp became the the park it is today our family and the neighbors family went to the point with two brand new cars just months old. One a 69 Grand Prix and the other a Mercury Montego with a total of 9 people. As this topic suggest one was stolen and 9 of us had to ride home to Columbus in one car. Cp police did what they could, take a report and tell us that the car was on it's way to Canada or already striped.

The funny thing about this story is that 20 years later the thief was caught with the Grand Prix in mint condition, not a scratch on it. When he saw the car in the Cp lot he fell in love with it and drove it away. He kept it in a garage and only drove it for special occasions. My neighbor did not want the car 20 years later and the insurance co. sold the car to the thief and he still has the car today.

^That's ridiculous!

We've left our laptops in the car and nothing has been stolen. I always leave my stuff in the bins.

Once, we wanted to quickly ride Dragster before it closed, but didn't have enough money for the locker. We picked a locker and just put our stuff in it. No one touched anything. We had like, three phones in there.

I'm sorry you're stuff got stolen. Some people are just ridiculous.

JW Addington said:I'm still shocked ( knock on wood ) that i haven't heard stories of people stealing stuff that people just leave laying around in strollers and lawn chairs in Soak City..

Happens all the time. But you can't really feel sorry for those people because they are taking a HUGE chance by leaving stuff at their chairs by the Wave Pool.

One happened in a parking garage in Cleveland where they smashed a window, the other a Toledo bowling alley where they punched out the lock. I didn't bother with involving cops in Cleveland, and shouldn't have bothered with the cops in Toledo, as they are totally worthless.

Yup can agree with you on that one Ralph. I have also been a victim of 2 car stereos stolen. One was a nice one that was only 2 weeks old stolen from Owens Community College parking lot, and the other believe it or not was a small crappy portable radio that replaced the stolen one that happened at a Toledo Storm hockey game.

Now I just lost it and laughed at the person stealing a crappy portable radio that I paid 30 bucks for at K-Mart.

Nothing ever happened to me at CP over the years I have been going there. Also none at any other Amusement Park I have been too.

I've never had anything stolen from the park. Last year my boyfriend accidently left his wallet at one of the shops, but we called up there as soon as we got home, they found it and mailed it to us, cash and all. I guess we just got lucky.

Any valuables we have we usually put in a fanny pack and carry it around with us. If we go on water rides we rent a locker and lock everything up, but you can never be too safe.

Instead of paying for a locker we have somebody from our group bring a drawstring bag like this: http://www.underarmour.com/shop/us/en/mens/accessories/pid8174011-Printed-Medium-Locker-Sackpack/8174011-002

When we want to put things away we put them in the bag and then hide the bag in a bush. Make it not noticable to people and remember where you put it and you are good to go.

We had food, and adult beverages stolen from our room at the Hotel Breakers in 2007, it was may and the hotel was very slow. As soon as we came back from the park that afternoon I knew something did not seem right in the room. Our box of snickers were gone, and a unopened bottle of some good Kentucky bourbon was missing, I could tell my bag had been gone through too. Good thing I had anything of real value on me or in the car.

The kicker of the whole thing is the hotel manger that day was not helpful at all, the cedar point police acted like they could care less, I got very upset about the whole situation, and we ended up getting kicked out for the night, due to me becoming upset. I also wrote a very long letter when I got home, but never received a response.

We stayed this year at the Breakers, and I have nothing but good things to say, so I guess we just happened to have a bad apple that cleaned our room that day. I even left some cash out this past time as some bait, but when we came back we just had a clean room, and the cash still there.

I had 2 bags of match lite,charcoal stolen from our cabin at lighthouse point, i had it outside by the door,we were in cabin 82,never in my life thought they would steel charcoal,this was in mid may this year,and we were the only people around.

KHTOExtreme said:

Now I just lost it and laughed at the person stealing a crappy portable radio that I paid 30 bucks for at K-Mart.

The really ridiculous thing was that the window cost quite a bit more to replace (even though I got one at a junk yard and installed it myself) than the CD player did. I fixed the punched out lock myself, and other than not looking quite right, it at least didn't cost anything.