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Green Man |
[quote]My late mum had her wallet/purse stolen when she was in Greece on holiday..but that's another story.. (it's even worse when you're in a foreign country and you don't speak the language..)
Stuff like the police are powerless unless there is evidence or witnesses. I bet they told your mother to contact the bank.
Like when you are burgled, look online they say or tell you to tell the insurance company.
I still don't understand why people store everything on a phone, we got by for hundreds of years by analogue.
I have had a few Fords in the day and the Ford Laser was one of the easiest cars on the market to break into. Everyone I knew who owned a Ford Capri had bad luck, the cars either self-combusted when parked or the Capris were nicked.
Off-topic, I still remember my first car, which I got from a bloke in a bar.
The windscreen wipers would go off at random or they wouldn't work at all, and the electric windows would sometimes open if I went over ramps or potholes. When it was nicked in a posh-ish area, I had to laugh. |
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Green Man |
Give it time they cut your hands off if you have microchips in your fingertips. |
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hedda |
d av i d au wrote:
Is Britain in decline..
you don't get massive poverty for free. The taxpayer ends up paying for it (prison, crime)in non productive ways |
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d av id au |
Well I have been pick pocketed and my wallet and all my credit cards and cash stolen from me in the city I live in
and just as well I was living in an inner suburb at the time, a 45 minute walk from the city.. but the real horrible time I was robbed was when
I had driven to a friends house who was moving out and he said.. come over as I wanna get rid of a bunch of things .. kettle, toaster etc..
so I went over, put some things in the back of the hatch and hid my backpack in the back of the Ford Laser out of view..
Eventually came down to the car after being upstairs for a while and discovering the back seat had been pulled down giving access to the boot and the back pack with my spare house keys, wallet full of credit cards, bank cards, identity cards, electronic work keys, cash, my diary with all sorts of confidential information and passwords etc .. all gone..along with the toaster, kettle etc.. it was a nightmare.. I was up all night calling the banks after hours numbers to cancel all the cards (and I had a lot of accounts..) going through to their offshore call centres which in itself is a difficult process .. then in the morning I had to arrange for a locksmith to come over and change the locks.... could have easily turned into identity theft on a grander scale.. By the time my cards were cancelled they'd spent over $2000 at service stations and convenience stores in the middle of the night...
It took a few months before the banks credited my accounts with the lost funds..
Green Man that's one thing about not having a very smart / expensive phone... they'd just throw it in the gutter after snatching it from you.. whereas I have an iPhone which basically has everything in it.. so then it becomes an extreme horrible situation.. fingers crossed.. good idea about dining indoors at cafes .. as they're unlikely to ride their mopeds in-store.. mind you.. many work in gangs and have their accomplices eying off anyone who looks like they have money or expensive watches, hand bags, latest iPhones etc..
My late mum had her wallet/purse stolen when she was in Greece on holiday..but that's another story.. (it's even worse when you're in a foreign country and you don't speak the language..) |
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Green Man |
Most stolen phones go to China where they are hacked to be sold on or used for spare parts. They time they are stolen they in the post or being tampered with.
I can imagine the police investigating phone snatching, there is too many incidents.
I have been burgled twice,never been mugged yet but have I been pit-pocketted several times and have had my bags tugged. Never had nothing of value my bags. |
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