Your point is well taken, Cotty.
In many areas something that will bring the price of a pack of
cigarettes is at risk. Certainly anything that will get a druggy a hit
of his favorite substance is. In Tampa my bicycle was stolen. I had paid
$50 for it in a pawnshop. I would guess another (or maybe the same)
pawnshop gave the thief $10 for it and sold it to someone else for $50.
When I worked at a hospital in Ann Arbor people would walk off with the
courtesy wheelchairs. I went into the local pawnshop once and there were
three of them with "Property of St Joseph Hospital" clearly stenciled on
them. Of course the owner claimed he had no idea they were stolen.
When I was a kid someone stole a shipyard welding unit from the dockside
where my dad's boat (he was the 1st mate on a Great Lakes Freighter back
in the early '50's) was docked. The thing was 1/2 the size of a RR
boxcar and would have required a crane and a flatbed semi-truck to
steal. Does make one wonder
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Cotty wrote:
As to value of gear, anything hung around a neck or a shoulder that has
a lens and glitters is going to be of some value, usually several
hundreds of units of any given currency.
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