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Why are the thieves after me?

Argh, first someone got a hold of my university credit card number somehow, and then I received a call today from a faculty member. "Where's the LCD projector for my classroom?" he asks. I'm guessing it is not sitting there locked down to the cart where it has been for the last couple years, and sure enough, I go to the classroom and find the busted up lock that used to secure it, but the projector is gone. Knowing this is a classroom in a wing of our building locked down with card access from 6:00 pm to 8:00 am, that means the projector was stolen either: 1) off-hours by someone with card access (i.e. an "inside job"), or 2) by someone who walked into an actively used university building between 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, intentionally broke our lock with tools he/she brought (it required either a hacksaw or some bolt cutters) and then stuffed the projector into a backpack and walked out with it. The amazing thing is this is the second projector people have st...