Re: Thugs are Stupid

[Stark <astark@suffolk.lib.ny.us>]

Marc, your post really cracked me up.  How right you are about  these
"street thieves". A friend of mine was enrolled at Fordham University (NYC
)  1971 and one day after parking his 1964 Volkswagon and a real piece of
junk, was walking back to class when a "local resident", I would assume,
came sashaying down the street with  an alunimun suitcase in hand.  My
friend recognized the suitcase as probably containing electronics or
camera equipment.  Well, anyway, it turns out the suitcase contained an
M-3 with a 50mm,35mm,90mm,light meter,etc. and it was all offered for
$100.  He sure knew his cameras......Now the real  kicker....a week later
someone stole his 1964 Volkswagon.  These  guys  are really bright.
Thought you would get a chuckle out of this story.  P.S. my friend still
has the camera.  Tony 

                         tempus fugit

On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Marc James Small wrote:

> At 04:57 PM 7/30/97 -0400, Steve Brauner wrote:
> >I can understand Leica's desire to use the red dot for brand name
> >recognition, but it certainly makes it easy for would/be thieves to spot the
> >Leica quickly.
> 
> You folks really must live in areas with some high-quality thugs.  Hell, I
> DEFEND these guys in Court, and I've yet to have a criminal client who knew
> what in blazes a Leica was.  A 'camera', sure, they'll steal a 'camera' --
> but they'd take a tinny P&S over a Leica any day of the week, as it looks
> more expensive.  These guys are DUMB, or they wouldn't be street thieves.
> They simply don't know the market, and the fences  are almost as
> ill-informed.  A pawn shop might know the true value -- but, contrary to
> their image, most pawn shops are honest operations.
> 
> Now, random violence against street photographers, sure, that's a
> possibility.  But I doubt if more than 1% of our criminal element are as
> brand-conscious as some seem to think.
> 
> Marc
> 
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