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 Takes an opportunity! Marry your leica. Don't leave the hotel without it, and scan baby, scan! Glenn Thrall wrote: > > 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! > > > >