Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry to hear about that sad and annoying loss, Ken. I hope you get the Leica back, and have some sort of back up camera for the rest of your holiday. We were targeted by a gang of six pickpockets on the metro in Barcelona a few months ago, but were lucky as I was expecting some sort of thievery, and I got my wallet back. I would have thought that the car hire company would have given you some warning about that sort of thing being a possibility in Iceland which has so many tourists. Was the hire car a Dacia Duster? https://www.icelandreview.com/news/robber-targeted-dacia-dusters/ Douglas On 27/12/2018 17:09, Ken Iisaka wrote: > Well, that was fast. > > It was just a month ago that I got a Leica for the first time in my hands > in years, after losing everything and more in a divorce. > > I was visiting Sk?gafoss waterfalls in Iceland today. After returning to > the car, putting the camera in the bag in the back seat, we were approached > by a young woman perhaps 25-30 years old, with long wavy brown hair, with > light brown skin, who spoke with a thick non-Slavic Eastern European > accent, from the passenger side. > > She appeared to be pointing out to something about our rental car. I got > out of the car to look at what she was trying to say, sounding like she was > saying that there was something wrong with the car and it was dangerous. > > The one minute interaction with her created an opportunity for her > accomplice to take the bag from the back seat, even with my girlfriend in > the car. > > I did not notice the loss until our next stop a half an hour later, but > lost in the black Billingham Hadley Pro bag were: > > SL 4964347 > Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90 4527732 > Summilux-SL 50 4642333 > > Of course, the worst loss was the images I had taken today. The waterfalls > were tremendous, and the images are lost. > > Compared to the losses I suffered to my ex and her attorney, the financial > value is nothing. However, this was quite a shock to experience this in > Iceland of all places. Clearly, the woman was not local, and probably works > the tourist spots in the area. When I went to the police station to report > the crime, I was told that there had been a series of car break-ins and > thefts during this Christmas holiday season. > > Beware, all. >