KCM, got your pm. Replied accordingly. Thanx.
Seriously now, because it's a fact that people have been evil, stolen, etc... in the past, and that we have "safes" "alarms", "doors", etc.... , ergo means that: "No one in the world can be trusted" ?
No one's saying "throw caution to the wind and have complete strangers you met in a seedy bar helping you dig 1000 gold coins. But on the contrary, to go from that, to saying: "Therefore you should never have any friends. Afterall, "they might steal from you", is going to the paranoid extreme.
I have friends that I can trust with the keys to my house. I've hunted with friends who watched me find good things, or I watched them find good things. And lo & behold, we didn't kill or rob each other. A buddy of mine pulled up a $3k rare CC quarter. I didn't kill or rob him. But wait, lemme guess, if it had been a $6k or $60k coin, we would most certainly have killed and/or robbed each other, right ?
I see your point! But you are very lucky to have those type of people! That is rare! And no, if that's the way you took my post? That makes sense to me of what your saying then......
""Therefore you should never have any friends. Afterall, "they might steal from you", is going to the paranoid extreme. "
Isn't what I meant by my post.......Before I moved I had 100's of "friends" but only 1 or 2 I could trust 100% with anything. In my mind you would have to choose the "friend" for the job carefully.....Is what I was getting at....I've had partys of whatever people in my house, but wouldn't give them all the safe combo and walk away!!! I think you know what I mean anyhow!
If you've employed people it's the same thing...Some can be trusted 100% with anything. Others? not so much! But are great people to hang out with or go detecting with! There is an amount, where a lot of people will start thinking! They talk, and if they or someone they talk to wants to act? They will be in your house when your not there or plotting! Not all!! But the threat is very real....And very few people, can keep quiet about things! People love to talk! Usually! At least in my experiences this is true!
I have a funny thing that goes along with this.....I lived in a dump of a house, a couple of years there, I made A LOT of money compared to neighborhood. The house was a dump, vehicles not the greatest, I wore ripped up clothes. Had 3 safes in the house.Because of the type of business we were doing. When you looked in the front windows all you saw was a run down living room.No one knew what we did from the neighborhood. Even people from the neighborhood would come in and "look" around. Have to use the bathroom, even though their house was just as close...I had one tell me what a piece of crap I was and I probably don't work, dump house,etc....... I had to laugh at the time i could have bought and sold his house a bunch of times with what was in one safe....But!!! Our change in our cars was stolen every week! We didn't even lock doors on cars so they wouldn't break windows...If ANY!!! of those people would have known what was actually in that dump of a house? It would have been gone!! NO DOUBT IN MY MIND!!! My garage was broken into many times for some junk tools! Batteries taken out of cars etc...
I don't have anything of value to worry about now, but kind of gives a little bit of my point...You have to watch sometimes! Family,friends, neighbors, who they talk to, etc...
Now we did lose some stuff out of the house! But I believe it was either family, or "friend" at the time...
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