Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve, why didn't you stomp on him? Stuart Phillips - -----Original Message----- From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 2:33 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves 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... - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html