steffen
Poser
On Monday evening I came home to a burglarized home.. everything in my apartment was thrown out on the floor in search of anything of value.
..end result? None of my Leicas or Bessa stolen. No lenses stolen. But they did steal my ancient and worthless Canon D30 digital SLR. Seems to me their criteria was digital or nothing.
Nonetheless quite unhappy about the incident, but as I'm always eager to promote film I'm happy to announce that film cameras are seemingly immune to theft.
..end result? None of my Leicas or Bessa stolen. No lenses stolen. But they did steal my ancient and worthless Canon D30 digital SLR. Seems to me their criteria was digital or nothing.
Nonetheless quite unhappy about the incident, but as I'm always eager to promote film I'm happy to announce that film cameras are seemingly immune to theft.
Sparrow
Veteran
So, one really does get more keepers with film 
sorry, couldn't resist, sorry about your trouble
sorry, couldn't resist, sorry about your trouble
Steve Bellayr
Veteran
Much has to do with name recognition. Almost everyone and any crooked worth his time in jail has heard of Nikon and Canon. Leica...Never heard of that!
batterytypehah!
Lord of the Dings
Well here's to clueless burglars!
Our apartment was robbed years ago and my wife was almost a little upset that her jewelry got left behind. It was indeed not valuable stuff but to think that those junkies lugged away our TV (tube, at that time), VCR, camcorder, around 50 CDs, even my slippers - but they looked at her necklaces and didn't even bother.
BTW this does not mean that I'm too cheap to give her nice stuff. She just doesn't care for stones and gold, because of how and where they're mined.
Our apartment was robbed years ago and my wife was almost a little upset that her jewelry got left behind. It was indeed not valuable stuff but to think that those junkies lugged away our TV (tube, at that time), VCR, camcorder, around 50 CDs, even my slippers - but they looked at her necklaces and didn't even bother.
BTW this does not mean that I'm too cheap to give her nice stuff. She just doesn't care for stones and gold, because of how and where they're mined.
KenR
Well-known
And here I've been afraid to buy a Leica because of my fears of being robbed to get the camera from around my neck.
Jason808
Established
Steffen, my sympathies for your loss.
Kind of makes taping over that red dot seem silly nowadays. Well, I always thought it was silly.
Kind of makes taping over that red dot seem silly nowadays. Well, I always thought it was silly.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Whew! Bad luck - and good luck! My commiserations for the bad, and congratulations on the good.
Cheers,
R.
Cheers,
R.
steffen
Poser
Thanks.. well, I'm off to my easter vacation. Lightning never strikes twice (and so on).
Sparrow
Veteran
Actually, the Policeman that came to investigate our burglary warned me that thieves often wait until you have had time to replace everything with new goods, and then strike again.
Which did happen in our case about 10 weeks later, thankfull they got disturbed and the only damage was slight
Renzsu
Well-known
Sorry to hear that, might be worth picking up another digital decoy though!
Sparrow
Veteran
Oh yes, and a new-for-old policy it came to a surprising total.
One tip; don’t keep the receipts in the boxes in the same cupboard as the lenses, it makes proof of ownership difficult
One tip; don’t keep the receipts in the boxes in the same cupboard as the lenses, it makes proof of ownership difficult
oftheherd
Veteran
So sorry to hear of you being burglarized. That often leaves one with a sense of being violated. Don't think that is unusual, or unmanly. It happens to most people when the castle is no longer the safe place it used to be.
Good that your Leica gear was untouched.
Good that your Leica gear was untouched.
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IgalSc
Established
sorry for you, but I would for sure take Leicas )))))
)))))