Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, Breaking into a car can and does indeed happen everywhere. I have had my = car broken into a vandalized in Lawrenceville, NJ, as peaceful a small town a= s you will find in the U.S. (I lived there 1990-95). I have had my car broken i= nto in New York. Given that it happened in broad daylight, in a "safe" part of M= anhattan with lots of pedestrian traffic, I am assuming that some passers-by must = have seen it happening and obviously did nothing. That does not mean that I stopped= going to Manhattan. Incidentally, a few years ago the state of Florida passed a law prohibiti= ng any marking of rental cars as rentals (i.e. no more Hertz stickers, no specia= l license plates etc.). The reason? Crooks would follow tourists after they had pic= ked up their rental car in, say, Orlando airport, created a small accident on a = deserted stretch of road, and then robbed the tourists at gunpoint, sometimes with= fatal consequences. This puts your Paris incident into some perspective... Nathan WOCCCC@aol.com wrote: > My 2 cents on the issue. When you are in a 'good' area of a given ci= ty i.e. > Paris, and your rental car is broken into and your gear stolen while on= your > way to photograph something, like say, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, you wil= l get a > bad taste for the city. Could it happen anywhere? Possibly. Would th= e local > shopkeepers and people walking by call the police while the crooks are = prying > open the doors and trunk? One would hope so though they didn't there. > Having traveled the world with no problems, this city will stand out = in a > negative way and has an impact on returning. > As I said, my 2 cents on the issue. > > Bill - -- Nathan Wajsman Manager, Commercial Management AT&T-Unisource Communications Services v.o.f. 1945 Chauss=E9e de Wavre, 1160 Brussels, BELGIUM Tel. +32 2 676 3683 (Brussels) or +31 23 569 7516 (Hoofddorp) Fax +32 2 676 3874 (Brussels) or +31 23 569 7533 (Hoofddorp) Mobile +32 75 494 102 E-mail: nathan.wajsman@euronet.be