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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!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

You didn't report the unattended luggage?

[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Steal everything, leave the electronics.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

All cheap bikes are meant to be shared.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Me, after my soul-sucking devices are stolen on vacation: โ€œoh no. Iโ€™m free.โ€

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

TBF on a train, there aren't a lot of places anything could disappear to unless there's a stop in between.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trains are pretty safe but we're currently experiencing a bike crime epidemic. Which I suppose is itself very Danish.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

ew! a reddit link!?

[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

They seem to have erected some crude red force fields around their belongings.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Brits all together now See it...

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe the value of the digital stuff is nothing compared to the heroin being transported in the bags!

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

This post stress me the hell out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Oh, duh, danske bank made it. Good call!

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