RE: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

My only pickpocket story is 38 years old...but it is a very sad one. Xmas
vacation '64, a friend and I went down to Greenwich Village for an evening
of trying to be cool and listening to folkies - I believe we saw Eric
Anderson somewhere on Bleeker Street. Anyway, before going down I had
carefully put my wallet in the zippered front pocket of my L.L Bean anorak -
the pocket right on my lower chest. And of course when we got home that
evening the wallet wasn't there - and the pocket was unzipped...

And now, the rest of the story...

The reason this tale is particularly sad, and still eats at me almost four
decades later, is that in the wallet I had the press pass I had gotten
through Seventeen Magazine - don't laugh - to shoot at the 1964 Newport Folk
Festival. And that press pass, which I had since the summer laminated, had
on it the autographs of every big name in folk music you can possibly think
of, from Bob Dylan to Joan Baez to Mississippi John Hurt, Pete Seeger, Peter
Paul and Mary, Mimi Baez, Jose Feliciano, and on and on and on...

And now you know....The rest of the story..! ;-)

B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Steve
Unsworth
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 2:18 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves


Well on Sunday afternoon I had my wallet stolen on the métro. I was
walking up the steps at the exit and a girl having a cigarette at the
top of the steps said that someone's had taken something out of my
pocket. I felt my trouser pocket and yupp the wallet was gone. Then she
said he was still behind me. And there he was, a kid of about 12, two
steps down from me. He hadn't had the sense to walk in the opposite
direction after he'd taken it. Anyway, I got my wallet back, thanked the
girl and in the meantime the boy had disappeared back into the métro. At
which point I had an attack of good citizenship and went back down the
stairs to look for him. He was still there looking in a woman's bag when
I suggested we went for a walk to the ticket office. Unfortunately he
wriggled free while they were calling the police. This time he _did_ run
away.

The strange thing was that the wallet was in a side pocket, not the
back, that had a zip on it. He'd undone the zip and taken the wallet
without me feeling a thing.

Steve

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of B. D.
Colen
Sent: 06 August 2002 18:27
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves


What a really great story!!:-)

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Tim
Atherton
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 6:57 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves


For all those who worry about thieves targeting Leica's by the red dots
(followed by the urge to use black tape) the following story from
another list proves Marc's point about your average thief being one fry
short of a Happy Meal:

> Last week my car was broken into and several thousand
> dollars worth of camera equipment was stolen. As you
> can imagine, the newspaper is filing an insurance
> claim...

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