Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/06

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves
From: "Sam Krneta" <skrneta@mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:49:56 -0500

BD,

I never think of it here. Maybe due to my familiarity of the areas I
frequent. Strange, I'll have to think about that, I never feel as
exposed here in the states as I do in Europe, and I'd much rather live
in Europe if I could only make a living there

Sam Krneta


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of B. D.
Colen
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 2:51 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves

 Sam Krneta warned:
 Never walk in non populated areas
looking like a tourist in Europe. It's like walking around with a
bulls-eye on your back.

- ----
Forgetting to warn us that we face the same risks in similar areas in
American cities. ;-)

B. D.


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steve
Unsworth
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 1:18 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves

Well on Sunday afternoon I had my wallet stolen on the métro. I was
walking up the steps at the exit and a girl having a cigarette at the
top of the steps said that someone's had taken something out of my
pocket. I felt my trouser pocket and yupp the wallet was gone. Then she
said he was still behind me. And there he was, a kid of about 12, two
steps down from me. He hadn't had the sense to walk in the opposite
direction after he'd taken it. Anyway, I got my wallet back, thanked the
girl and in the meantime the boy had disappeared back into the métro. At
which point I had an attack of good citizenship and went back down the
stairs to look for him. He was still there looking in a woman's bag when
I suggested we went for a walk to the ticket office. Unfortunately he
wriggled free while they were calling the police. This time he _did_ run
away.

The strange thing was that the wallet was in a side pocket, not the
back, that had a zip on it. He'd undone the zip and taken the wallet
without me feeling a thing.

Steve

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of B. D.
Colen
Sent: 06 August 2002 18:27
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves


What a really great story!!:-)

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Tim
Atherton
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 6:57 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves


For all those who worry about thieves targeting Leica's by the red dots
(followed by the urge to use black tape) the following story from
another list proves Marc's point about your average thief being one fry
short of a Happy Meal:

> Last week my car was broken into and several thousand
> dollars worth of camera equipment was stolen. As you
> can imagine, the newspaper is filing an insurance
> claim...

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