Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alexey Merz wrote: > > Jim Brick wrote: > > >the top 15 stolen cars in the US are: > [snip] > >I don't see BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Saab, Lexus, Infinity, or anything > >other than a well known, mundane, run of the mill, easy to sell, N*, > >C*, M*, and P* kind of cars. > > Jim: let's see that list normalized for the percentage of each model > that gets stolen in a year. I expect that you will see major changes > in the order. The cars you list are most often stolen simply because > there are so many of them out there, or because they are unusually > easy to steal (Olds Cutlass). > > Nikons, Canons, and Minoltas are certainly stolen more often than > Leicas, simply because there are more of them around to steal. But > that does not make a *particular* Nikon lots more likely to be > stolen than a *particular* Leica. Most thieves see only "fancy > camera" (i.e., any SLR), I expect. I'd bet that the average fence > gives 10-20 bucks whether it's an F90x, a Rebel G, or an R7. > > It makes me sad to think that my dad's M3 and 3 lenses probably > got some druggie no more than twenty bucks - if that. I hope > he tried out the beta blockers that he stole from our medicine > cabinet :-(. snip Innocuousness stands for a lot! I.E.: steal the invisible. I can't see them getting something different for a Minolta, than a Nikon or a Leica; its a camera a pop. Mark Rabiner:-)