Tourists having cameras stolen a lot

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  1. ASSEMbler

    ASSEMbler Administrator Staff Member

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    I've had several people tell me recently their cameras were stolen.

    This is quite a shock to me to hear about.

    Anyone heard anything about this?

    Mostly in the northern region too.
     
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  3. APE

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    Tourists are annoying people.
     
  4. Yakumo

    Yakumo Pillar of the Community *****

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    News to me. They're probably talking out of their arses. I can imagine they left them somewhere only to find they weren't there when they got back.
     
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    Probably. Or they didn't know where the lost and found was.
     
  6. Jamtex

    Jamtex Adult Orientated Mahjong Connoisseur

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    Indeed, I would ban them from Japan, as well as English Teachers, criminals, people that work in the banking, entertainment or food industry as well as French, Swiss, Australians, Russians, Nigerians and Americans in general. :thumbsup: That way they can't complain about anything.

    There was a local story about a gang that were caught trying to steal from cars and sent to jail, they were people on refugee status from iraq according to the news report in the paper.
     
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  7. GaijinPunch

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    I'd be more shocked if they actually had refugee status since Japan gives a shockingly low number of asylum visas.
     
  8. GodofHardcore

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    Ah the Japanese Lost and found buildings upon buildings of Pens
     
  9. GaijinPunch

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    wut?
     
  10. GodofHardcore

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    Long Story/joke I don't want to explain.
     
  11. Yakumo

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    I lost my wallet once on the way home after a night out. I was pretty drunk and didn't notice until I got home. When I got home I remembered that I had my wallet when I got off the train so I walked back to the station to look for it but it could not be found. Next to the train station was a police box (Small police station) so I asked there about it. They asked what was inside then presented the wallet to me once I had told them. Not a thing was missing from it. All cards, all cash and train ticket were all still inside.

    That would never happen in the UK or any other country I had been too.

    Yakumo
     
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  12. Cyantist

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    Probably a joke towards the fact that Japanese save everything.

    In the UK they'dve swiped the cash for drugs or something. The train ticker would've been sold to some other junkie and the cards will have been used to make a line of coke, stuffed back inside the wallet and thrown into bushes.
     
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  13. GodofHardcore

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    The UK now 100% more Gangsta than the US
     
  14. Yakumo

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    The thing is, UK pricks are mostly skinny scrawny skin heads who are so fucking thick they can't spell their own name.

    Yakumo
     
  15. GaijinPunch

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    They do?
     
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    Why do you think they have their names tattooed on their necks, it's to reduce the amount of time they have to spend in custody awaiting bail.

    Police Officer: ''What's your name, son?''

    Fucknugget: Points at his neck: ''Duh''

    Police Officer: ''Ah, Davey. Right, back in your cell and here's a tissue, wipe all that drool off your chin.''
     
  17. Hedgeyourbets

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    Clearly you've never been to east London :p
    While they certainly can't spell their own name, they're anything but scrawny, I told one of them to fuck off, he chased me for 2 miles and he was built like a fucking tank... I'm lucky he needed to stop for a huff on his crack pipe or I would never have escaped
     
  18. Cyantist

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    Doesn't stop them thinking they're built like a brick shit house!

    Not sure about gangsta but sections are certainly getting more ghetto.
     
  19. GodofHardcore

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    And to think a great deal of this planet was once under British rule, Still I think the UK is pretty awesome and given my recent obsession with Northern England that's probably where my family came from (My real name is so English it has tea at 4)
     
  20. alecjahn

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    Excellent post, then.

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    Was it someone on this forum that spent a week or so in internet cafes because he left his wallet in his apartment while his lady was on vacation?
     
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