Lucky person next to me

[Small White Car]

If everyone were a little more aware of their surroundings and willing to get involved and take some responsibility for their own safety then maybe we would not feel the need to give up more and more of our rights in the name of safety.

Call me crazy, but if I had strangers questioning my actions all day long I'd consider that "giving up more of my rights." It doesn't have to be a government that takes away your privacy.

Case in point, the OP eventually found out the dude had a friend there, watching his bag. So not only is it not a enough to get a friend to watch my stuff, I have to also announce to the whole world that I'm going to the bathroom?

 

[Mahshall]

It's funny how here in New Hampshire most of the people in my town leave the house without locking the doors and the majority of people leave the keys in the ignition sometimes running while getting the mail or stopping at the store.

I think its strange to read about people stealing others things because that doesn't happen here.

People have respect for others?

 

[tigress666]

It's funny how here in New Hampshire most of the people in my town leave the house without locking the doors and the majority of people leave the keys in the ignition sometimes running while getting the mail or stopping at the store.

I think its strange to read about people stealing others things because that doesn't happen here.

People have respect for others?

I grew up in Atlanta or rather a more big city thing where anyone who did any of that would be considered incredibly foolish. Even where I live now we have found leave the car doors unlocked and some idiot will try to steal them (my roommate used to never lock his car doors and i forget sometimes. We had two attempts, one time on both cars where we both had cars we didn't think anyone wanted, one time on his. And I say idiots cause every single time they failed to actually steal the car. I'm kinda glad so far we only have the stupidest thieves. I suspect opportunists who just see a chance to try something).

I have the opposite reaction and find it strange to read of people who live in areas where they don't feel the need to keep everything locked.

Just depends on where you grew up/live.

As for reporting the bag, part of me said I should. But part of me also agrees that after a while all of that seems big brother (that and part of me didn't want to be that person who over freaks out over every little thing) and the more likely thing was that some one just left his bag unattended (and it did turn out he did have it watched, just the person was not right next to it but some seats away. Don't know why he didn't have his friend sit next to it as there were seats available at the time but maybe his friend already had a bunch of stuff set up and didn't want to move. And it is obvious he wanted to charge his phone so that is why the backpack wasn't moved next to his friend).

 

[pyro008]

I'm growing panicked reading this thread.

 

[Acronym]

Never ceases to amaze me how dumb some people are. I can't believe how many of my old-enough-to-know-better friends do stuff like this.

I don't have that kind of luck. LOL If I did something that dumb, my phone would take a walk with some lucky stranger.

I once lost my wallet at work (or rather a work site) and had a older gentlemen call me up telling me he had my wallet and I could pick it up whenever I needed to.

I seem to have decent luck with losing/finding things, but not always.

 

[482214]

Probably a police 'theft trap'... Airports have so much cctv it's a great place for trap style initiatives. I've seen it many times before. It's also a great test on an individual airports security checks. They should really qualify something like that within 30 minutes.

Here in the UK our police utilise everything from public area small item offerings (such as phones, watches, purses and bags, laptops inside of parked cars and even complete houses full of modern tech left empty for months... All highly covered by cctv, Microphones and even areas for increased dna and fingerprint capture.

Unfortunately the smaller items tend to tempt people who would never normally consider stealing something into a quick dash decision. The number of people who see an apparant lonely mobile and take it with no previous criminal history is high. When they get caught they normal can prove the ability to pay for that item several times over... They just get caught up at that particular moment and dont think it through.

 

[Hueyfreeman]

Probably a police 'theft trap'... Airports have so much cctv it's a great place for trap style initiatives. I've seen it many times before. It's also a great test on an individual airports security checks. They should really qualify something like that within 30 minutes.

Here in the UK our police utilise everything from public area small item offerings (such as phones, watches, purses and bags, laptops inside of parked cars and even complete houses full of modern tech left empty for months... All highly covered by cctv, Microphones and even areas for increased dna and fingerprint capture.

Unfortunately the smaller items tend to tempt people who would never normally consider stealing something into a quick dash decision. The number of people who see an apparant lonely mobile and take it with no previous criminal history is high. When they get caught they normal can prove the ability to pay for that item several times over... They just get caught up at that particular moment and dont think it through.

In America we have a telivision series called bait car. The police park a nice car, BMW or Cadilac in a bad neighborhood and leave the keys in it. I don't like the idea because they are not stopping crime but merely making one happen. In the long run it is a waste of money.