Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:33 PM 9/1/01 -0700, Jim Laurel wrote: >In hotel rooms, I just locked up spare gear in a porter case, and cable >locked that to something in the room. Most hotel room theft is >opportunistic. You are at risk if you leave something out in the open. >Hotel staff are much more likely to go for that stuff before they go >rummaging around in your bags. In the US, it is normal for salesmen who have to leave their sample cases in their rooms to leave a bottle of bourbon or gin or, best of all, vodka, visible in the room. This seems to satisfy the larcenous feelings of many hotel staff members. I do not know if the same applies overseas, but most US hotel staff members are from the lower working class, and wouldn't know a Leica from Jim Larkin. They MIGHT know a Canon or a Nikon, but that would be the limit. And the risk of removing the gear carries with it some risk of getting caught -- and, to these folks, cashing in on this stuff is damned difficult: the fences they might know would deal with are specialists in car stereos and boom boxes and, maybe, paste jewelry, but would know nothing at all about anything more sophisticated. So, they would steal your camera case FOR the case, and throw the cameras in a trash can. The case they could sell. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!