Are there any honest people left?

[EOSThree]

If you are trying to provoke me, whatever. It is not my job to help you police your stuff. If I lose something I blame myself. I rarely seek to vilify others for my weakness. Beyond that I don't really give a ****...

If someone targets me for damage that is different.

I am just as upset or more upset with myself as I am with the thief. That still doesn't excuse the person who took it. I am not trying to provoke you, I have no need to do that. I am trying to figure out the twisted view you have on this. I have vilified no one, I am calling a spade a spade and trying to figure out how anyone could defend the actions of the thief. The person who has my tripod took something that wasn't theirs, they stole it. The fact that I left it is immaterial, it doesn't belong to that person, it belongs to me. I just happened to make their chicken $h!t behavior easier, by leaving it. I'd feel better about it if they'd held a gun to me and demanded it, at least then they'd have faced me like a man.