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 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.
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!
They seem to have erected some crude red force fields around their belongings.
Maybe the value of the digital stuff is nothing compared to the heroin being transported in the bags!
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.
Trains are pretty safe but we’re currently experiencing a bike crime epidemic. Which I suppose is itself very Danish.
ew! a reddit link!?
Steal everything, leave the electronics.
This post stress me the hell out.
TBF on a train, there aren’t a lot of places anything could disappear to unless there’s a stop in between.
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 funny how even in countries where people leave their expensive belongings unattended without worrying still sees bikes as acceptable targets as if it’s like a global standard. I would also put umbrellas there too.
All cheap bikes are meant to be shared.
Some parts of the US are like this, usually affluent cities where strangers are willing to yell at other strangers on your behalf / out of a sense of collective justice. But they were probably paying attention to your stuff already because they thought it was suspicious that someone got up and left behind a whole-ass bag.
It’s the same in Denmark. You wouldn’t want to do this in certain parts of Aarhus or Copenhagen.
Me, after my soul-sucking devices are stolen on vacation: “oh no. I’m free.”
Seen this plenty of times in the US, people leave their purses and stuff unattended in shopping carts etc
