In less clued up towns, if it'll bring a buck, steal it. As always, what they REALLY want is handguns. Yes, these juvenile gangies and addicts WILL steal your camera..... PJ Nebergall On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:41:18 -0400 Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > At 07:53 PM 10/29/2007, JMN * wrote: > >It seems clear from the thread that we all look > >a bag where form follows function without revealing expensive > equipment within. > >Yet some camera manufacturers offer camera bags > >with obvious markings that scream "expensive camera gear inside". > >Hello! I have to ask why would you want something like this? > > <sigh> You boys do live in a world of paanoia. > > The sort of guys who will steal your gear are > looking for readily hocked items such as iPods > and Walkmans. They have never heard of > Rolleiflex or Leica and would not be able to sell > these if they stole them. These folks are > dummies. At Baltimore camera shows, we used to > have thugs coming through offering us Leicas they > had picked up by mistake for $5, as they had no > idea of what they had and no sophistication about > how to sell these and had been rejected by all of > the usual fences. The word has gone out to the > druggie community: steal all of the laptops you > can and all of the iPods but leave most cameras alone. > > Now, that doesn't mean that your gear at home is > safe. A targeted strike COULD be made on a given > person's abode by a cunning dude but this is rather unlikely. > > I regularly carry expensive camera gear in rough > neighborhoods. My Leica set is in a > Billingham. No hu-hu. I am worried that they > will steal my wristwatch or my cell phone but I > have not the slightest worry about the theft of > my camera gear. The stealer would have no idea > of the value and no idea of how to market it. > > Marc > > > > msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! > > --- > Rollei List > > - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' > in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org > > - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into > www.freelists.org > > - Online, searchable archives are available at > http://www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list > > > --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at http://www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list