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The end of wearing an expensive watch

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Evitzee
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Wear your watches where you feel safe, if in doubt leave them at home, or in a safe, or in the bank. Right now I'm in northwest Montana and I usually wear my Daytona. I feel no danger that I'm going to get mugged for my watch, except by a grizzly bear in Glacier National Park. And in that case I'm probably dead.

Many large cities have become cesspools for street crime, a predicted outcome when we turned away from the Broken Windows Theory of policing because it was deemed 'unfair' to certain groups. When petty crime is tolerated more serious crime is never far behind.
 
The Father
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Yeah, interesting to see where some people get their news.

Tell us all where we need to obtain our news?

List the top 10.

ChiefMark, listen up this is obviously directed towards you.

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C
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I have the best idea I’ve had in a long while.

Goodbye, sheeple.
 
Faz
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I would assume that If a criminal suspects that plenty of people around his target are armed, he will be more brazen and violent to achieve his goal.
 
noelekal
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Some folks watch too many movies.

Create all the scenarios you like watchyouwant. Be snide. Exaggerate. Be smug as you like. Take comfort in your superior education.

Our Constitution is not simply something warm and cozy, to be pulled out when convenient. Nor is it to be manipulated to be what we would like it to be, this week ... next year ... next generation. There are lawful means to change our Constitution.

UncleBuck UncleBuck
When can we get back to watches?
Wear an Audemars Piquet or Vacheron or some uncommon brand in rough crowds and wear Rolex when on "Dancin' with the Stars".

Uncle Buck may be depended on to be a voice of reason. My favorite "uncle," but then all of mine are now gone.

Is sad that the most noticed watch, the most admired watch I own, at least by those who aren't "into" watches is the dumb ol' Shameless Hussy, the '59 Omega Seamaster 520 re-dial with "that dial." It's the only watch I wear out that gains oooos and ahhhhs.

Why it'd be plum embarrassing to be held up for this watch!
 
Dan S
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Evitzee Evitzee
Many large cities have become cesspools for street crime, a predicted outcome when we turned away from the Broken Windows Theory of policing because it was deemed 'unfair' to certain groups. When petty crime is tolerated more serious crime is never far behind.

I have a slightly different memory of the history, which is that Broken Windows was generally accepted as a viable theory of law enforcement, but that it lost credibility because of lazy and unconstitutional policing procedures sometimes employed, such as stop-and-frisk. I tend to agree with your opinion of the ultimate consequences, though.
 
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The US constitution allows firearms for a well armed militia, which was at the time when the US did not have a standing army. It's not for self-protection or mob rule.

Or. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002107670/historian-uncovers-the-racist-roots-of-the-2nd-amendment
"It was in response to the concerns coming out of the Virginia ratification convention for the Constitution, led by Patrick Henry and George Mason, that a militia that was controlled solely by the federal government would not be there to protect the slave owners from an enslaved uprising. And ... James Madison crafted that language in order to mollify the concerns coming out of Virginia and the anti-Federalists, that they would still have full control over their state militias — and those militias were used in order to quell slave revolts. ... The Second Amendment really provided the cover, the assurances that Patrick Henry and George Mason needed, that the militias would not be controlled by the federal government, but that they would be controlled by the states and at the beck and call of the states to be able to put down these uprisings."
 
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dsio dsio
That is one of the most psychotic websites I’ve ever seen in my life, like I hit the latest button and its just crackhead stuff

I see you are staff. Excellent. I’ve cancelled my automatic renewal of support, and would appreciate it if you’d delete my account. It’s not a function made available to end users.

1500 posts & 2 years is enough. This dumpster fire is just shy of large enough to make me ditch watches altogether.

Thanks and goodbye.
 
noelekal
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At the end of the day, what a shame it is that watch folks have to be concerned and maintain a vigilance if they wish to wear their watches in public.

In a perfect world ...

Only no one has a perfect way of finishing the sentence.
 
perks713
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C ChiefMark
I see you are staff. Excellent. I’ve cancelled my automatic renewal of support, and would appreciate it if you’d delete my account. It’s not a function made available to end users.

1500 posts & 2 years is enough. This dumpster fire is just shy of large enough to make me ditch watches altogether.

Thanks and goodbye.
Lol you agreed with that statement about three posts later and now you site it as your reason for leaving the site. 👍
 
dsio
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C ChiefMark
I see you are staff. Excellent. I’ve cancelled my automatic renewal of support, and would appreciate it if you’d delete my account. It’s not a function made available to end users.

1500 posts & 2 years is enough. This dumpster fire is just shy of large enough to make me ditch watches altogether.

Thanks and goodbye.
Well I can’t actually do that as your account is too old and connected to too many threads to achieve that easily but disagreeing with people in one thread that isn’t even related to watches isn’t the best reason to ditch your watches. Not everyone will agree on everything, whether it be the originality of a dial or issues relating to crime, and this is only magnified on an international site which this is.
 
The Father
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C ChiefMark
I see you are staff. Excellent. I’ve cancelled my automatic renewal of support, and would appreciate it if you’d delete my account. It’s not a function made available to end users.

1500 posts & 2 years is enough. This dumpster fire is just shy of large enough to make me ditch watches altogether.

Thanks and goodbye.

come on ChiefMark, don’t let some smarmy bastards run you off.

Note, if ChiefMark really deletes account can I have his balance of support? I hate these damn pop up ads and I’m too cheap to renew

I posted a puppy pic so obviously I’m an ok guy. Plus I haven’t watched FOX NEWS in almost 2 years.
 
dsio
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Back to the original post, if I were the owner I’d be looking to see if the restaurant’s public liability insurance covers him as I know my brothers restaurant in Australia has had its insurance cover some thefts and losses over the years. That’s probably something that varies a lot by country I guess.
 
watchyouwant
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Look at where that gun violence happens. First, fully 1/2 to 2/3 depending on the year of gun deaths are suicides. So let's say the low end, or 1/2. Look at what's left and you find that it's nearly all in a few zip codes. Zip codes where there are the strictest gun laws. It's been shown (not hard to find this) that if you remove the gang violence, or for that matter just remove the worst 10 cities in the US from the statistics, the US is, if I recall correctly, the 2nd SAFEST country on earth.

Ahhh...., If we remove anything Nazi/ 3. Reich/ Concentration Camps in the 1930's and 1940's, Germany was a wonderful country. Got it.
 
Dan S
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dsio dsio
Back to the original post, if I were the owner I’d be looking to see if the restaurant’s public liability insurance covers him as I know my brothers restaurant in Australia has had its insurance cover some thefts and losses over the years. That’s probably something that varies a lot by country I guess.

I don't think the theft was successful. But the woman's dental bills will be substantial ... and there may be a broken chair.
 
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