Someone stole my charger for the BPS Freedom CPAP battery

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Someone stole my charger for the BPS Freedom CPAP battery

Post by crab-legs » Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:38 pm

I was at a new YMCA the other day in a good area. I was taking a shower in the women's locker room and had my two Freedom batteries plugged in with the charger to charge up at the vanity area. I had to do it then since I wasn't going to be near an electrical outlet most of that day and I had to use the batteries again that night. I have done this a few hundred times at different locker rooms. Well, in just a few minutes, someone unplugged the charger and stole it, leaving the two batteries and pigtail splitter cord behind. I was furious.

Fortunately, I had another OEM charger in my car, since each battery came with one. I still want to replace the charger though, to have one as a backup, and to charge the batteries faster.

Question: will any laptop cord work to charge these batteries?? This is what it looks like (the charging cord on the left):

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Re: Someone stole my charger for the BPS Freedom CPAP battery

Post by Goofproof » Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:43 pm

How stupid, not to take the batteries. The person should be easy to catch! Jim

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Re: Someone stole my charger for the BPS Freedom CPAP battery

Post by crab-legs » Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:46 pm

Goofproof wrote:
Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:43 pm
How stupid, not to take the batteries. The person should be easy to catch! Jim

Someone flunked Christian Class! (YMCA)
Haha, that's what I was thinking! The batteries are much more valuable.

I am thinking to put a sign on them and the charger that these are a necessary medical device and not to steal them. Without that extra charger I had, I would have been screwed. I cannot sleep without my CPAP machine. I would just lie awake all night.

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Re: Someone stole my charger for the BPS Freedom CPAP battery

Post by Goofproof » Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:51 pm

crab-legs wrote:
Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:46 pm
Goofproof wrote:
Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:43 pm
How stupid, not to take the batteries. The person should be easy to catch! Jim

Someone flunked Christian Class! (YMCA)
Haha, that's what I was thinking! The batteries are much more valuable.

I am thinking to put a sign on them and the charger that these are a necessary medical device and not to steal them.
I can see the Headlines now, WallWart stolen at YMCA, while it was stealing Electric power.... :lol: Jim
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Re: Someone stole my charger for the BPS Freedom CPAP battery

Post by crab-legs » Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:57 pm

Goofproof wrote:
Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:51 pm
crab-legs wrote:
Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:46 pm
Goofproof wrote:
Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:43 pm
How stupid, not to take the batteries. The person should be easy to catch! Jim

Someone flunked Christian Class! (YMCA)
Haha, that's what I was thinking! The batteries are much more valuable.

I am thinking to put a sign on them and the charger that these are a necessary medical device and not to steal them.
I can see the Headlines now, WallWart stolen at YMCA, while it was stealing Electric power.... :lol: Jim
[EDIT: I was not stealing. See my reply below]

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Re: Someone stole my charger for the BPS Freedom CPAP battery

Post by chunkyfrog » Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:19 pm

Anyone can walk into a gym, and help themselves to anything not locked up.
Some scum make their LIVING this way.
Lesson learned--lock everything that is not within arm's reach.

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Re: Someone stole my charger for the BPS Freedom CPAP battery

Post by Goofproof » Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:17 am

Could have also been, someone maybe even a employe could have seen it may have been a bomb, or just a fire hazard and removed it. Plugging into other's outlets without permission isn't Cool, and is a form of theft. Charging batteries of certain types can cause fires.

I have had two batteries Lith Ion fail, not with fire yet, but by swelling up inside the units. My Samsung Tablet 12.2 inch, swelled the back and front of the Tablet it blew the screen out of the frame. It still works but it's a fire hazard. I am having a bad year for computers. You can't build your own laptops, neither can the Major Brands, all they want are cheap to make are cheap high profit junk, throw aways! Jim
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Re: Someone stole my charger for the BPS Freedom CPAP battery

Post by chunkyfrog » Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:35 pm

Go to Lost and Found--and tell them.
In case it was turned in.

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Re: Someone stole my charger for the BPS Freedom CPAP battery

Post by crab-legs » Tue Jan 28, 2020 2:48 pm

Goofproof wrote:
Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:17 am
Could have also been, someone maybe even a employe could have seen it may have been a bomb, or just a fire hazard and removed it. Plugging into other's outlets without permission isn't Cool, and is a form of theft. Charging batteries of certain types can cause fires.

I have had two batteries Lith Ion fail, not with fire yet, but by swelling up inside the units. My Samsung Tablet 12.2 inch, swelled the back and front of the Tablet it blew the screen out of the frame. It still works but it's a fire hazard. I am having a bad year for computers. You can't build your own laptops, neither can the Major Brands, all they want are cheap to make are cheap high profit junk, throw aways! Jim
Sorry for your troubles Jim.

An employee did not remove it. They batteries were clearly marked CPAP battery and I reported this theft to the front desk. If it were a bomb, they would have evacuated and called 911. And people charge their devices unattended all the time.

And it is not theft. I pay to be a member there, and see people all the time plugging in their cell phones, laptops or other devices. The vanity area is where people can plug in things like their hair dryers too. The same goes for places like Starbucks or the library. you're not supposed to plug in there either???

Your accusations are pretty outrageous. I let your insult slide in your previous post, hoping you were just joking, but I see you weren't, since you felt the need to mention it again.

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Re: Someone stole my charger for the BPS Freedom CPAP battery

Post by crab-legs » Tue Jan 28, 2020 2:50 pm

chunkyfrog wrote:
Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:35 pm
Go to Lost and Found--and tell them.
In case it was turned in.
Thanks chunkyfrog. I did immediately after and left them my phone number. It was obviously stolen. Lesson learned!

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Re: Someone stole my charger for the BPS Freedom CPAP battery

Post by Goofproof » Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:40 pm

Did they have any plugs to fit my Tesla. I might take up swimming. :lol: Jim
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