This couple that was in the same train as me, left their seats to change the diaper of their little baby.
Not only did they go away from their luggage, but they left two phones and a large tablet visible and unattended for quite some time!
It’s not that bad in a train, as people can’t just run away before the next stop. You wouldn’t have this level of trust in a street cafe for instance.
Just today some bastard stole my headlight from my bike. Like two hours ago. Finland. We’re known as rather honest.
But the junkie who desperately needed a 10e flashlight is welcome to have it, the pathetic sack of shit.
It’s really pretty simple, happy people don’t tend to be assholes. Politicians, if you want less crime don’t build more prisons, make life better. I mean, that’s your job isn’t it?
Are you telling me that we should stop incorporating a police state, arresting homeless people for public loitering, putting bars on benches? Instead offer more public services and free healthcare to get them back on their feet and better yet, mitigate homelessness to people at risk of being homeless?
Nah, I think we should make it easier to put people in prison for misdemeanors instead.
Yes, but consider that too many people in power have no fucking clue how to run a country and they see public funds like a cookie jar.
They seem to have erected some crude red force fields around their belongings.
Same in Seoul. As a white guy from NYC it blew my fucking mind to see people just leave their stuff at cafes off busy streets. I don’t leave my pockets unzipped yet alone leave anything I’m not actively trying to throw out unattended.
I’ve seen some videos of Russian tourists stealing stuff in Korea and it made national news. Here you can’t get the police to file a report.
It’s like this in (non-major city) Germany, with one exception: if you blink before locking your bike up, it’s gone. I’ve seen laptops in public areas sit undisturbed for hours, but almost everyone I know has had at least one bike stolen.
One lady saw me locking my bike up with 12mm thick chain and expressed sadness that we have to go to such lengths as a society just to keep others from touching things that aren’t theirs. I sometimes think of her now when I’m locking up my bike.
Doubly sad too, since some people don’t have cars, and bikes are their primary means of transit.
Same in Denmark, bikes are the one thing at risk. But that said, you just need to not be lazy/stupid and lock it to something solid, and bring it indoors overnight
That said, in rural Denmark, where I live, i have often forgotten my keys in my car and not even felt bad about it.
Actually my car door does not lock at all and hasn’t done so for 3 years but leaving the key in the ignition could actually be illegal
Denmark is an extremely high trust society. Babies left in the carriage outside a shop, let yourself into the library after hours with your card, often things on the street that are for sale you can just take and mobile pay (like Venmo
but from the government) someone on the honor policy.It’s nice
like Venmo but from the government
I don’t think Mobilepay is from the goverment. It was originally created by a bank, and actually there were several competing options to start with. This one won out, and is indeed the dominant mobile payment option, but as far as i know, it still is a separate and private company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobilePay
Oh, duh, danske bank made it. Good call!
I had all my shit stolen in Spain.
Cant spell spain without Pain
España
Ethpañyuh
What does bread have to do with it?
Yeah, it’s not the same there as in Scandinavia. My big sister lived in Spain for about 10 years and got robbed several times, while she has lived in Sweden the rest of her life and had never been robbed. I realise this can partially be because she didn’t know what to do right in Spain to not get robbed, but the simple fact that it’s something she (and mostly everyone else) in Scandinavia never need to learn or think about says something about the difference. I’m in no way saying Spain or anywhere else is a worse place or that the people there are worse, it’s just a fact and there’s no other meaning behind it.
I know it must’ve sucked, but I laughed out loud at your comment.
It definitely sucked but oh well.
no one wants my shit, i have to flush it myself
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Be careful in Paris. Too many robberspierrers.
🎵Well I’ve been up to Paris
And I’ve slept in a park
Went down to Barcelona
Someone broke in my car🎶
How? You left it unattended?
This is one of the fundamental things in danish society. We live in a society.
I love denmark 🇩🇰
Plot twist: OP took this photo moments before he stole all their shit.
Extra plot twist: OP took the photo with the phone he stole from the seat before.
This thread is the perfect alibi for OP, AKA the mobile bandit, the name being a reference to the items they steal and the fact that they only steal items while travelling
when I went to Denmark this year, my train was full of my fellow Londoners.
Tip from me, don’t leave anything unattended as long as you allow tourists.
Thanks for your clever solution
How is Denmark dealing with refugees again?
Truth
Who says everyone on the train is from Denmark? Leaving expensive items unattended in public is a stupid thing to do, no matter where you are.
How do you feel about the danish standard of leaving babies outside in their stroller to sleep?
Nobody wants to steal your noisy shit machine.
Exactly.
Norway does that too.
A believe all of Scandinavia does.
It sure streamlines the adoption process.
How often do you think something bad happens?
Like 7 times. At least.
Per nap. At least.
I think it’s great. Normalize children being left alone.
You mean like school shootings has been normalized in a certain police state?
Nah, it can be totally fine.
I don’t want to pack my entire train setup everytime I need to take a piss, especially when there is a close to zero chance that anything will get stolen.
Sure
Steal everything, leave the electronics.
Trains are pretty safe but we’re currently experiencing a bike crime epidemic. Which I suppose is itself very Danish.
ew! a reddit link!?
Maybe the value of the digital stuff is nothing compared to the heroin being transported in the bags!
TBF on a train, there aren’t a lot of places anything could disappear to unless there’s a stop in between.
Not uncommon here in Japan, either. People leave phones/handbags to reserve a table when they go to order at the counter (at a cafe etc). It’s nice not to have to constantly worry about theft as much as other some countries. Not to say that there is no crime because that’s not true.
Yeah and then they visit Paris or London and their belongings get robbed right from under their noses, because they are so naive. Thanks to these dewy-eyed Asian tourists, Asians living in Europe always get targeted when they visit a touristy area.
This post stress me the hell out.
Yep. Just basic trust in human decency in action. This shouldn’t be news worthy. It’s theft that’s unusual and immoral and should be the cause for concern.
