How to Avoid Pickpockets
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From: Martin on 25 Jul 2010 04:55 On 25/07/10 02:11, jfeng(a)my-deja.com wrote: > On Jul 24, 2:24 pm, "James Silverton" <not.jim.silver...(a)verizon.net> > wrote: >> An amusing fantasy but why don't you just pack some heat? > That's a good idea! I used to worry about getting them toys past > airport security, but (not surprisingly), the TSA has not confiscated > any of it. > > Recently, while travelling with some friends on the Athens subway, one > of them lost a wallet. I admit that I was disappointed that they did > not get my fake wallet, instead. Is there some scope for a skilled pickpocket in the USA?
From: Martin on 25 Jul 2010 04:58 On 24/07/10 23:27, Jack Campin - bogus address wrote: >> I'm always amazed at these tales that are told whenever the dreaded >> P... word comes up. I've travelled quite a lot in Africa and Europe >> during the last 50 years or so, and I can say hand on heart, that >> I have never, ever, not even once in all those years had my pocket >> picked. > > I have, once. It was in Edinburgh on Hogmanay, back when the event > was a totally uncommercial drunken melee at the Tron. After the bells > everybody kisses or shakes hands with everybody else. I kissed one > lovely red-headed woman who hoovered me into a passionate snog that > lasted a couple of minutes. I later found my coin purse was gone. > With only 20p in it, I figured I had good value for money. Allowing for the cost of antibiotics?
From: Martin on 25 Jul 2010 05:00 On 25/07/10 00:09, Ari Silverstein, C.T.A. wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:45:03 +0100, bart.c wrote: > >> I find con-men more of a problem, always coming up with some story that >> requires me to lend them some money. > > Hi bart! I was going over my stock portfolio and have a few extra hot > shares of BP that I could sell to you...as a friend should, of course. and those worthless US government bonds?
From: Martin on 25 Jul 2010 05:03 On 24/07/10 23:19, Mike Lane wrote: > Martin wrote on Jul 24, 2010: > >> On 24/07/10 18:43, Ian F. wrote: >>> "S Viemeister" <firstname(a)lastname.oc.ku> wrote in message >>> news:8b0hg9Fjv1U1(a)mid.individual.net... >>> >>>> Or you could simply add velcro to the pockets of clothing you already >>>> own... >>> >>> Or they could simply not be so paranoid, thinking someone's about to >>> pounce on their pathetic few dollars around every corner! >> >> If one buys Tilley products one won't have any money left to have stolen. > > I'm not sure about that. I bought a Tilley hat in about 1995 (I think). > They're guaranteed for life, so when it wore out after about 10 years I sent > it back and they duly sent me another which I'm still using. > I bought a sun hat in 1998 that has faded a bit but is otherwise as new. It cost a fraction of the price of a Tilley hat.
From: Martin on 25 Jul 2010 05:04
On 25/07/10 00:11, Ari Silverstein, C.T.A. wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:19:53 +0100, Mike Lane wrote: > >> Martin wrote on Jul 24, 2010: >> >>> On 24/07/10 18:43, Ian F. wrote: >>>> "S Viemeister" <firstname(a)lastname.oc.ku> wrote in message >>>> news:8b0hg9Fjv1U1(a)mid.individual.net... >>>> >>>>> Or you could simply add velcro to the pockets of clothing you already >>>>> own... >>>> >>>> Or they could simply not be so paranoid, thinking someone's about to >>>> pounce on their pathetic few dollars around every corner! >>> >>> If one buys Tilley products one won't have any money left to have stolen. >> >> I'm not sure about that. I bought a Tilley hat in about 1995 (I think). >> They're guaranteed for life, so when it wore out after about 10 years I sent >> it back and they duly sent me another which I'm still using. > > Our college fraternity maid's name was Tilley which I am sure has > nothing at all to do with this thread. but gets incandescent when pumped up, like a Tilley lamp? |