Archive for June, 2006
Monday, June 26th, 2006
Handbag thief caught in action!
Well, not quite, a spoof video from YouTube called “Captain Two-Stroke & The Handbag Thief” for your amusement:
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
New technology to prevent bag theft
There are a few initiatives in new technology (and some old) to help prevent bag theft.
There is some interesting information on http://www.karrysafe.com/. Here they talk about four different types of bag theft and how to protect against them.
Anti-slash: New Yorkers put chicken wire inside their handbag to avoid losing the contents if the bag is [...]
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
More bag thefts reported
Thank you for all your reports, please keep them coming using the form at the top right of the page, this email address:
or the form on the map page.
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
What action do you take if you have your bag stolen?
If you are ever the unfortunate victim of bag theft, whether it’s been snatched or stolen when you weren’t looking, this is what you should do.
1. Report it to the police. Only a small proportion of crimes are reported to the police so please let them know there’s a problem. More importantly you will need [...]
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Thursday, June 1st, 2006
You won’t believe this!
OK, maybe you will, but crime maps are a popular thing with our cousins over in the USA. They have much more relaxed data protection laws, that some people can argue for days about whether is a good or a bad thing. Whatever the answer, it means they can produce some quite interesting stuff on [...]