tip snatchers?

In my "get away" "interesting" "all to trouble making" "ill fill you in later" weekend I took a little day trip to Santa Cruz. While in Santa Cruz i visited a cookie / ice cream shop, because god knows after filling your belly up on Mexican theres always room for a little sweet. And so, enjoying samples of mocha chocolate mint oreo fudge ice cream (yes all one flavor) i glanced at the tip jug (yes jug because it was enormous). In the tip jug was change, dollar bills, and WATER. yes, water. What water would be doing in the tip jar, oh excuse me, jug, i do not know, and so I asked. Low and behold I guess people (or snatchers as i am going to call them) were reaching their little claw like evil fingers in the tip jug, and stealing the cash. STEALING the cash. Who in their right minds would steal tip money? Especially from a cute litttle cookie / ice cream shop? Well, what I found almost more disturbing was the fact that to stop these snatchers they thought the best solution was to fill the jug with water. I find this more disturbing because it kind of ruins the whole idea of tipping. Sure, no one should reach in and steal these 17 year old, hormone raging, pimple popping, high school workers' cash flow...but.....filling the jug with money?! You might as well say, hey, we are so completely "selfish" for lack of a better word, that we are going to "protect" our tips. Tips are given when earned, and should not be an expected perk with the job. I remember slaving away at a Chevron Deli when I was 17, getting a dollar a day in tips and cherishing those four quaters. You don't have the tips to begin with, and you shouldn't go to extra, beyond ridiculous lengths to keep them. Appreciate and be greatful for what you have. and also...dont be a snatcher. :) thank you!