If you’ve lost your mobile phone recently, have you tried trawling Cambridge's pubs? Because the city’s boozers are the most likely spot for handsets to ‘go missing’, according to new research.
Security firm CPP has compiled a list of ten English cities where mobile phone theft is at its highest, and doubled the stats up with …
If you are stupid enough to leave them on the table, or in something else in plain site, like a handbag or backpack.
The only people I have seen lose phones are the people who constantly show off their iPhone/N95Supercomputer/D600Mediacentre etc as if it were some kind of sign of their sexual prowess.
This goes for girls who leave their mobile phones at the top of their wide open handbag at the edge of the bar/table etc too.
Simple rule - if you have something valuable, either don't take it with you or keep your eyes on it - it's not tricky, is it?
Steven "has never had anything nicked from him in a boozer, but has had to stamp on a few wandering hands to keep it that way" Raith.
I find the problem of having my handset on a verticality-challenging evening out is more to do with it surviving intact rather than being stolen
I lost an SE K750i one NYE after dropping it while texting someone and a fat heffer stepped on it
My XDA Orbit was my own fault as I put my keys in the wrong pocket then experienced a gravitational fluctuation which altered the orbital pull of a nearby wall (nothing to do with the beer, guv) and caused a fatal (for the phone) collision
Mine's the one with the fragmented touchscreens in the pocket
You can also loose them by not doing up your bag properly...
I know, having lost my last Mobile that way (A 4 week onld Nokia E61).
The diffrence is, I didn't do it in the pub. Going about 60 on my Bike I felt somthing hit my leg, and saw somthing smash in the road in my wing mirror. I thought the car in front had thrown rubbish out of the window. Only when I got home did I realise my bag was not properly closed, and my phone was gone. Oops.
I've lost 2 phones in my lifetime, one fell out of my pocket in a cab and the other one was stolen from my hand whilst I was talking on it by a kid on a bmx, the first can kinda be blamed on my own actions, the second, not.
... have the largest number of migrant worker/asylum seekers. I'm not blaming 'bloody foreigners' 'cus they we can breed our own crims quite well enough thanks. To me transient population = ready market for easily transported high value goods. It makes sense to me that thieving requires easily available resources and accessible markets. the movement of populations opens up markets no end. the number of city centre bars, especially true of Leicester, makes large number of mobe easy for light fingers.
Look at the fact the Cambridge is top of the list Oxford is nowhere.
I'd have to agree with you 100%, leicester is a true multicultural city, everyone gets robbed regardless of colour by people of most usually non-english born nationality.....
But I guess that those sort of things cannot be commented upon for PC reasons.
CAMBRIDGE topped the list and it as bugger all migrant worker/asylum seekers it has a lot of 'bloody foreigners' but they are all academics, students and scientists and aren't known for nicking mobile phones.
The local pikey YOB's from Arbury have, however, got it down to a fine art and favour victims who are foreigners.
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If you’ve lost your mobile phone recently, have you tried trawling Cambridge's pubs? Because the city’s boozers are the most likely spot for handsets to ‘go missing’, according to new research. Security firm CPP has compiled a list of ten English cities where mobile phone theft is at its highest, and doubled the stats up with …
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Posted Friday 9th May 2008 10:41 GMT
Steven Raith
Phones only go missing in pubs.. #
If you are stupid enough to leave them on the table, or in something else in plain site, like a handbag or backpack.
The only people I have seen lose phones are the people who constantly show off their iPhone/N95Supercomputer/D600Mediacentre etc as if it were some kind of sign of their sexual prowess.
This goes for girls who leave their mobile phones at the top of their wide open handbag at the edge of the bar/table etc too.
Simple rule - if you have something valuable, either don't take it with you or keep your eyes on it - it's not tricky, is it?
Steven "has never had anything nicked from him in a boozer, but has had to stamp on a few wandering hands to keep it that way" Raith.
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 11:13 GMT
Anonymous Coward
How many thefts are real? #
I'm sure a lot of people report thefts to get new handsets!
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 11:16 GMT
An Unwashed Mass
Not stolen #
I find the problem of having my handset on a verticality-challenging evening out is more to do with it surviving intact rather than being stolen
I lost an SE K750i one NYE after dropping it while texting someone and a fat heffer stepped on it
My XDA Orbit was my own fault as I put my keys in the wrong pocket then experienced a gravitational fluctuation which altered the orbital pull of a nearby wall (nothing to do with the beer, guv) and caused a fatal (for the phone) collision
Mine's the one with the fragmented touchscreens in the pocket
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 11:16 GMT
Anonymous Coward
RE:Phones only go missing in pubs.. #
You can also loose them by not doing up your bag properly...
I know, having lost my last Mobile that way (A 4 week onld Nokia E61).
The diffrence is, I didn't do it in the pub. Going about 60 on my Bike I felt somthing hit my leg, and saw somthing smash in the road in my wing mirror. I thought the car in front had thrown rubbish out of the window. Only when I got home did I realise my bag was not properly closed, and my phone was gone. Oops.
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 11:31 GMT
Lloyd
Bah #
I've lost 2 phones in my lifetime, one fell out of my pocket in a cab and the other one was stolen from my hand whilst I was talking on it by a kid on a bmx, the first can kinda be blamed on my own actions, the second, not.
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 12:13 GMT
Hugh_Pym
the list appears to be cities which ... #
... have the largest number of migrant worker/asylum seekers. I'm not blaming 'bloody foreigners' 'cus they we can breed our own crims quite well enough thanks. To me transient population = ready market for easily transported high value goods. It makes sense to me that thieving requires easily available resources and accessible markets. the movement of populations opens up markets no end. the number of city centre bars, especially true of Leicester, makes large number of mobe easy for light fingers.
Look at the fact the Cambridge is top of the list Oxford is nowhere.
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 12:42 GMT
Anonymous Coward
@hugh_pim #
I'd have to agree with you 100%, leicester is a true multicultural city, everyone gets robbed regardless of colour by people of most usually non-english born nationality.....
But I guess that those sort of things cannot be commented upon for PC reasons.
Anonymous, as I don't want a fatwa.
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 13:37 GMT
Andrew Moore
Sheesh #
>You can also loose them
Bloody hell- only 4 messages in and we get the obligatory "I cannot spell 'lose'" message.
Paris Hilton- because to her, grammar is someone who lives with grampa...
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 14:13 GMT
Karl Lattimer
soft southerners #
"one tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor."
where I come from (newcastle) thats
one tequila, two tequila, three tequila, four, five tequila, six tequila, seven tequila, floor...
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 16:15 GMT
Anonymous Coward
@hugh_pim #
your talking bollocks mate.
CAMBRIDGE topped the list and it as bugger all migrant worker/asylum seekers it has a lot of 'bloody foreigners' but they are all academics, students and scientists and aren't known for nicking mobile phones.
The local pikey YOB's from Arbury have, however, got it down to a fine art and favour victims who are foreigners.
Mines the one without the chip on the shoulder.
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 17:01 GMT
Anonymous Coward
@Karl Lattimer #
eight doesn't rhyme with floor?
Posted Friday 9th May 2008 22:50 GMT
Captain DaFt
@Karl Lattimer #
Um, where I come from, the "one tequila. two tequila" refers to bottles, not glasses!
So you blokes in Newcastle pass out after HALF a bottle? (Assuming the standard 16 drinks per bottle.)
Skull and crossbones, because a decent drink comes with warning labels to let you know it's worth drinking!
Posted Saturday 10th May 2008 18:47 GMT
Anonymous Coward
floor? #
when i worked in a night club it was closer to:
one stock room, two stock rooms, three stock rooms, floor
...AC because i think they actually thought they sold most of their stock every night, even when the tills only reported a few grand
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