rodinal220
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Yes,they can also recognize real jewelry from the costume and leave the crap on your wifes dresser and take the good stuff.
You may not be giving them enough credit. Not all criminals are smash and grab parking lot thieves. Thugs might not be able to see and/ or recognize 5.11 pants, but they can recognize style. Smash and grab thugs avoid people altogether if at all possible. A smash and grab thug might smash your car window to steal a Maxpedition backpack, or an Element backpack, or a Spongebob back pack. Any one of them can have a gun, or your kids homework. That's why I have car insurance. I'm not overly concerned with smash and grab thugs stealing junk out of my car in the parking lot. I'm much more concerned with the thugs who are set to confront me to steal directly from me.You folks are :
1 - giving criminals WAY too much credit for having intelligence, and
2 - thinking people are always looking to see small labels or looking to see if you "print"
It just isn't reality in today's world - smash and grab parking lot thieves look for exactly that - smash and grab - old age plays more into their scheme than your 5.11 "tactical" pants
Two identically dressed people, one is aware and vigilant, the other zombied on his iPhone. Who is the more likely target?
Quite true. I was thinking along the lines of a direct contact situation, like a mugging. A bank robbery, or any act that is not an individual attack, things can play out entirely different.That would depend on the situation, would it not? If you are talking about a quick mugging, then the guy on the phone. If you are talking about the person as a bystander in a bank being robbed, the the aware and vigilant person may simply be put down first as a matter of preventative safety. The zombified phone user poses the least immediate threat. In one situation, one behavior works well, but not in the other.
oneounceload said:It just isn't reality in today's world - smash and grab parking lot thieves look for exactly that - smash and grab
Shadow 7D said:the point of the robbery is gain
so, they will take what they think they can convert to quick cash
There are smarter ones that don't get caught.One need only look at the typical inhabitant of your local county jail to see how dumb these morons really are
oneounceload said:One need only look at the typical inhabitant of your local county jail to see how dumb these morons really are.
They are opportunists - period, most can't count their nuts and get the same number twice; they no more know about "tactical clothing" signifying a potential CCW person than they understand rocket science.
That would depend on the situation, would it not? If you are talking about a quick mugging, then the guy on the phone. If you are talking about the person as a bystander in a bank being robbed, the the aware and vigilant person may simply be put down first as a matter of preventative safety. The zombified phone user poses the least immediate threat. In one situation, one behavior works well, but not in the other.