With increased local armed robberies, I’m no longer wearing Rolexes

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Your chances for being a victim are related to the real estate market's motto of "Location, location, location". There are places in this world where you are more at risk for crime than others. You have to be aware of your surroundings at all times to try to mitigate the risk, but even then you may become a victim out of the blue by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
 
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I rarely have much trouble no matter how shitty the neighbourhood……mind you I look more like a malevolent menace to society with malicious intent than a potential victim……….some people take one look at me and would rather cross the street than walk past me 😲😁
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I rarely have much trouble no matter how shitty the neighbourhood……mind you I look more like a malevolent menace to society with malicious intent than a potential victim……….some people take one look at me and would rather cross the street than walk past me 😲😁

If its you in the profile picture Ill guess its not because you look menacing, its rather that no one wants to rob santa.😉
 
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If its you in the profile picture Ill guess its not because you look menacing, its rather that no one wants to rob santa.😉
Good on ya!
 
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A terrible thing to happen. The young dealer has seemingly taken his own life after this robbery.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...obbed-chokehold-inside-London-store-died.html
2 year training and reorder after stealing watches at weapon point? Hmm, seems like the UK and our major cities have taken the piss by letting criminals do whatever they've wanted for so long, now it doesn't matter what they try to do. It's a free for all in the criminal world, subsidized by sad news.

You can take the shit out the gutter but you can't take the gutter out of the shit.
 
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Mandatory prison sentence for any crime involving violence or the threat of violence against another person. Zero tolerance policy.
 
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A terrible thing to happen. The young dealer has seemingly taken his own life after this robbery.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...obbed-chokehold-inside-London-store-died.html
Wonder if the watches were insured. In any case, the young dealer must have suffered from depression or something else. Most robbery victims don't take their own life after. If the watches were not insured, that must have surely heavily influenced his decision. Sad nonetheless, and hope karma gets those robbers.
 
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Mandatory prison sentence for any crime involving violence or the threat of violence against another person. Zero tolerance policy.
Removal of limbs and other body parts seems like a better deterrent as they just join a scumbag club inside where more crime = more clout.
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Removal of limbs and other body parts seems like a better deterrent as they just join a acumbag club inside where more crime = more clout.
Unless you’re choosing to spit on the Constitution, Erric, I believe that your suggestion is prohibited by the 8th Amendment. I see little benefit to our society as a whole in becoming as barbaric as some of the acts committed by criminals.
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2 year training and reorder after stealing watches at weapon point? Hmm, seems like the UK and our major cities have taken the piss by letting criminals do whatever they've wanted for so long, now it doesn't matter what they try to do. It's a free for all in the criminal world, subsidized by sad news.

You can take the shit out the gutter but you can't take the gutter out of the shit.

Based on what I read, the light sentence is due to the perpetrator being a juvenile...
 
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Unless you’re choosing to spit on the Constitution, Erric, I believe that your suggestion is prohibited by the 8th Amendment. I see little benefit to our society as a whole in becoming as barbaric as some of the acts committed by criminals.

But is it really cruel and unusual? Hardened Criminals don't care about following laws and hardly ever become productive members of civilized society once they have gone far enough into the dark side. I have a hard time feeling sorry for them once they've consciously chosen to break the ultimate of social contracts.
 
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Based on what I read, the light sentence is due to the perpetrator being a juvenile...
16 year olds with machetes talking about choppig off arms and heads over a hunk of metal ... This is not normal.
 
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16 year olds with machetes talking about choppig off arms and heads over a hunk of metal ... This is not normal.

I don't think anyone suggested it was normal...
 
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Sad state of affairs in this world. The predators are looking for prey. I’m not it.
 
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Unless you’re choosing to spit on the Constitution, Erric, I believe that your suggestion is prohibited by the 8th Amendment. I see little benefit to our society as a whole in becoming as barbaric as some of the acts committed by criminals.
Barbarism is pretty well all they understand, the nasty little fuckers.....giving them a light slap on the wrist with a damp lettuce leaf is not going to be a deterrent.
 
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Barbarism is pretty well all they understand, the nasty little fuckers.....giving them a light slap on the wrist with a damp lettuce leaf is not going to be a deterrent.
I’m not advocating a light slap on the wrist, but neither do I think that we are entitled to disregard the Constitution as a whole when we disagree with any part of it. It’s the law of the land, not a menu.
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In addition to two Speedmasters, I have a small collection of vintage Zenith, Oris etc. None of them get a first (or second) glance.

I also have a Steinhart and a G-Shock as beaters. The Steinhart attracts the most attention (sometimes unwanted from the beggars that follow you around), the G-Shock is oddly second (it's yellow and black, so maybe they think it's a Hublot, who knows).
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Your chances for being a victim are related to the real estate market's motto of "Location, location, location". There are places in this world where you are more at risk for crime than others. You have to be aware of your surroundings at all times to try to mitigate the risk, but even then you may become a victim out of the blue by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

This is not 100% true. Take Switzerland as an example. Extremely wealthy country. There are still no go areas if you are wealthy and flaunting it (mostly in the cities).

In the summer, when people are on holiday, teams of thieves invade from Eastern Europe, France and Italy to break into houses and apartments, among these groups it is known as "El Dorado".

So even here, you are not immune.

One thing that is not helping is the retraction of the Police from being integrated into the centres of the towns and cities, meaning they no longer have a presence walking the streets, rather they drive around in cars and have their offices on the outskirts of the towns.
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Criminals understand the fear of retribution. It's their stock in trade. They are willing to either threaten violence, or actually commit violence in order to compel submission to their demands.

I'm for harsh retributive punishment. Civilized society has failed to protect itself for far too long. The lawbreakers must be compelled to fear us and the power of just law.

I'm coming to the end of my six month term seated on the grand jury as the foreman. I'm disgusted with the way the law and regulation is contrived to limit meaningful punishment, for the first timers, for the habitual. Why do we as a society rush to coddle offenders? Victims are left to tough it out.

Only a personal opinion, but the only thing about our current (in)justice system is the cruel and unusual way it punishes civilized society's victims.