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I accidentally left my wallet in a taxi on the way from Madrid airport into central Madrid. The taxi driver actually called me and came back a couple hours late
by noduerme 3y ago
I accidentally left my wallet in a taxi on the way from Madrid airport into central Madrid. The taxi driver actually called me and came back a couple hours later. (I gave her 100 Euros that she could have simply taken).
Unfortunately, the next day the same wallet was snatched out of my pocket in the Plaza Mayor, and I didn't realize it until I reached to pay for a meal. Talk about variance.
- skilled 3y agoI was doing sightseeing in Pokhara (Nepal) with my friend some years ago, and on a boat trip across the Phewa Lake, I left my camera behind in the boat and thought I had lost it. They actually came back to find me and give it back to me. I had already settled on the idea that I will never get it back.
- noduerme 3y agoyes! It's amazing. Another one in this vein.. my girlfriend left her hat in a car when we were hitchhiking in France. We didn't realize it until we had wandered off around a village. An hour later the boy and girl who had given us a ride tracked us down and gave her her hat back. It was a very cool Australian cowboy hat.
- seer 3y agoHa, in Kerela, India my backpack fell off my bike, with cash, passport and laptop inside. 2 hours later when I started searching for it, a couple of ex-military dudes found me on the road - they were looking for me all around on their scooter, as they saw the backpack fall from the bike next to the dam they were guarding. Took nothing from it as well. I gave them some cash as a thank you of course. Rural India seems like a very safe space to loose things in as a lot of people seem to be helpful and not opportunistic. I guess they might just not be accustomed to european stuff so might not really know what to do with it. Regardless I was extremely grateful to those two guys that saved me a lot of hassle reissuing my passport.
- hospitalJail 3y agoWeird to see such high petty theft countries near the top of the list too. No one tells you to pin your pockets shut when you visit NYC. Everyone tells you all sorts of ways to keep your belongings safe in Europe.
- melenaboija 3y agoAnd no museum in Europe tells you to please leave your guns at the entrance to pick them up later. I guess weirdness is a matter of culture.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoI have visited ancient churches in Norway that still have the weapon drop off rooms in the back :) Society ebbs and flows.
- noduerme 3y agoIt does seem that places with fewer guns tend to have fewer homicides but more petty theft. Someone should study that one.
- marfil 3y agoNYC. Chicago. Detroit. Atlanta. This ain't it chief. There is no correlation between "fewer guns" and "more petty theft". The common factor is culture of crime and it comes in different flavors. There are countries in Europe that completely outlawed even pistol ownership without extensive classes and expensive licenses, and yet they're some of the safest countries in the world. Has to do with culture and general population hostility, and the tensions and hostility will always naturally be higher among the armed population as been proved by history time and time again.
- Dig1t 3y agoYou can compare property crime and petty theft between San Francisco and Houston.
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