I like this Country, but...

[snaw]

I'd be interested in a country by country comparison - I don't think there'd be too many where it wouldn't get knicked ...

Maybe Japan, but I had a Camera thieved there so not convinced they're as pure as they're made out to be.

[denver2k]

I'd be interested in a country by country comparison - I don't think there'd be too many where it wouldn't get knicked ...

Maybe Japan, but I had a Camera thieved there so not convinced they're as pure as they're made out to be.

Deutschland ??
CH ??

[snaw]

Deutschland ??
CH ??

I had a backpack stolen in Munich.

Never experienced it in Switzerland (I assume that's CH), but they've a bucketload of junkies, who normally aren't adverse to pilfering to fund the habit (Maybe they get it for free, NFI).

[expat]

When I was working in Utrecht, my partner came over for a weekend. Out walking around the centre on Saturday, we nipped into a cafe. The rain started, and she noticed that the rain hat she had had in her coat pocket was gone. Oh well, she said, it's gone now, it's raining so someobody will have picked it up and taken it. I don't think so, I said. I went out and retraced our steps over the last few streets, and sure enough somebody had picked it up and put it on a post, rainproof side out.

And I had been able to be sure that it would be like that.

In a cafe, I forgetfully left 3 new CDs under the table. Came back in the evening, but they were gone. I asked the barman but nobody had handed them in. Oh well, I said, my fault for being careless. No, the barman insisted forcefully, nobody would take them. I later sheepishly found out that my partner had noticed that I had left them, so taken them, and forgotten to mention.

Again, the barman's certainty that they would not be stolen.


Of course this doesn't apply to Amsterdam, which is full of foreigners: but among the Dutch, old or young, it does.

We should be like that. Were we once?

[Pondlife]

Hardly anyone locks their bikes in Hamburg. Most aren't worth nicking though.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I had a backpack stolen in Munich.

Never experienced it in Switzerland (I assume that's CH), but they've a bucketload of junkies, who normally aren't adverse to pilfering to fund the habit (Maybe they get it for free, NFI).

Averse - it's a different word.