Man, I hate to hear that. Nothing makes your blood boil like people stealing your stuff... I know. Too bad you don't know for sure if that was the person that took your stand. I don't think you're wrong in feeling how you do. I know this probably doesn't make you feel any better, but we started chaining our stands up and using a few climbing stick on the bottom. That way it makes it a little bit tougher to get to the stand, and then when they get up there it takes some serious work to get it down (usually not a lot of poeple tote around a set of heavy duty bolt cutters with them).