Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have never, ever, met a thief who knew what a "Leica" was. To a thief it is a camera, as stealable as any other. Pawn shops do NOT want a stolen Leica. They have serial numbers and if the camera is pawned the police Pawn Shop Detail in major US cities will run the number and seize it. This is not a good buy for a pawn shop ... they lose whatever they paid for it. If the serial number is defaced, same problem. The thief, generally a hype, will sell the camera on a street corner for a few bucks. That does not mean you can leave it laying around, on your car seat or elsewhere. It is as stealable as any other camera ... but no more than that. Dot, schmot. Doesn't make any difference. Glenn mailto:gthrall@earthlink.net mailto:gwthrall@hotmail.com - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica and Thieves > Dear God Almighty, have mercy on us sinners. > > Folks, one of the finest of urban myths, and one propagated most mightily > by the Silver Screen and the Idiot Eye, is that of the "discerning thief". > For that matter, let us wander back a half-century to radio's "The Many > Lies of Harry Lime", with Orson Welles playing to perfection the part of a > thief and con artist who knew every comodity, every value, and every dodge. > > There may well be a FEW thieves, world-wide, who know what a Leica might > be, but these are few, indeed. Most know the ones who advertise on the > Tellie -- Nikon, Canon, Sony, und so weiter -- but they have just never > heard of Rollei or Leica or Hasselblad. Hence, they won't steal these > cameras, as they suspect they will have difficulty fencing such. They will > take a Nikon P&S over a Leica IIIc K as they are just too damned > unsophisticated to know the difference. > > Now, if Professor Moriarty were still around, perhaps this would be a > matter for the geriatric Sherlock Holmes to handle from his bee-keeping > hideout in Surrey. But, otherwise, fearing the red dot is perhaps the > ultimate exercize in sheer, bloody paranoia. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > >