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There might be a risk for a kid getting robbed of expensive gear - but adults not wearing headphones for the robbery risk? Never heard of it as a fellow Stockho
by gustavf 6y ago
There might be a risk for a kid getting robbed of expensive gear - but adults not wearing headphones for the robbery risk? Never heard of it as a fellow Stockholmer.
- mongol 6y agoNot yet. But considering there have been 136 robberies for expensive watches in Stockholm in six months, it is just a matter of time. https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/y3G4Pg/polisen-varnar-klockagare-var-forsiktiga https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/y3G4Pg/polisen-varnar-k...
- heavenlyblue 6y agoYou probably need to rob about 136 AirPods Max in order to get the same amount of value from a single expensive watch. On top of that, tech doesn't have nearly the same resell value as high-end watches.
- corobo 6y agoI have to imagine it's easier to steal wireless headphones though. You'd just hook them and pull as you leg it past
- ksec 6y agoIs this because of pandemic where economy are not as good and crime rate are higher? Or is that a norm? I have always thought Stockholm as somewhat safer than ( Greater) London in my book.
- ahelwer 6y agoLol this dude reminds me of my parents who wouldn't let me walk ten blocks home at night in my tiny ass Canadian home town because of how "dangerous" it gets after dark. Never mind the crime rate is literally an order of magnitude below any of the various American metros in which I've lived (and walked home after dark in, never experiencing any issues). Some peoples' perception is entirely driven by watching too much local news, and yet they somehow convince themselves they or their friends have personally have experienced all of this. Hook them up to a lie detector and it would draw a perfectly flat line as they spin their tales.
- latexr 6y ago> Hook them up to a lie detector and it would draw a perfectly flat line as they spin their tales. I don’t follow. A flat line on a polygraph (whose accuracy is a debate for another time) would indicate they are telling the truth, or rather that they believe to be doing so. I get that you’re claiming their perception of reality is skewed, but deriding people for saying what they genuinely believe to be true is odd.
- ahelwer 6y agoIt's just a weird feature of the human psyche you notice as you get older. People convince themselves that things they heard about from the news or other people actually happened to them or their friends. Maybe it starts out as a simple story told at a gathering, exaggerating for entertainment & abridging context for simplicity - "one time my friend..." - but after repetition and several years becomes a thing they believe literally happened as they told it. You often see this manifesting as tales of local criminal acts or encounters with homeless people. This sincere fabricational tendency, while humorous, does ultimately amplify a very skewed & harmful perspective in local politics. It's the reason why boomers swear they were present at every major event during their lifetimes, as though we're surrounded by Forrest Gumps.
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- dmitriid 6y ago> But considering there have been 136 robberies for expensive watches in Stockholm in six months, it is just a matter of time. 136 robberies of expensive watches in an area with 2.3 million people. Of them 64 happened in the city proper (1 million people). Yeah, "it's just a matter of time".
- _jal 6y agoAh, so this is just anticipatory fear-mongering, that thing some people who get off on fantasizing about bad things happening do. Got it.