Does anyone worry about name brand items making your kid a target for theft?

[Anonymous]

Recently, DC came a across a North Face jacket that we would buy for next year.

It makes me wonder if having that kind of jacket would make him a target for thefts or potentially worse.

Does anyone else worry about this with their kids' electronics, book bags, iphones?

[Anonymous]

No, not unless you live in a transitional area.

[Anonymous]

Yes if they are taking the metro. Too easy to grab and dash. More concerned about using iPhones, etc. than clothing.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I have not bought North Face for my kids on purpose. We live in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, not unless you live in a transitional area.

Transitional area? That is PC for what?

[Anonymous]

Yes. DC will be moving from small independent to large public for HS. Decided Uggs and NF backpack are enough. Intentionally chose non-NF jacket--even though so many private school peers are swaddled in NF.

[Anonymous]

I do not see anyone robbing anyone for ugg boots or a northface denali fleece. Unless you live in SE DC or among the bloods and the crypts, I would not worry about this at all. Oh, and who doesn't have an iphone to the point of robbing someone for it?

[Anonymous]

16:49 again. Things go missing in high schools all the time. Not interested in waving: Look at all my stuff
flags.
Why are you focused on particular sections of DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, not unless you live in a transitional area.

Transitional area? That is PC for what?

Annandale

[Anonymous]

iPhones are huge mugging risk

[Anonymous]

No, of course not. Seriously, is isn't the crack fueled 80s and 90s. People don't get killed for shoes and clothes anymore.

As for iPhones, people do get mugged for those but that is changing as the FCC is instituting stolen phones registries. If your child has one and takes metro or the bus, tell him not to talk on it in an obvious, public way while riding.

This is really not something to worry about, especially not clothes or shoes. Really.

[Anonymous]

It happens:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/helly-hansen-jacket-craze-sparks-violence/2012/11/30/14eb8cbc-38d1-11e2-a263-f0ebffed2f15_story.html

"How a jacket or a pair of shoes becomes so hot, so desirable, so alluring that someone would kill for it remains elusive. Before Helly Hansen, it was North Face. Before that, it was sneakers. A teenager, in fact, was killed in Northeast in January for his Nikes."

[Anonymous]

Well tell your kids to stay out of areas where there are the kind of people who would kill for a jacket. Spending $450 for a Helly Hansen jacket is absurd anyway unless you go skiing in CO multiple times a year. The fact that it has become a hip hop fad means its days as a real luxury brand are numbered anyway. The 1% does not want to be seen in a jacket a teenager was killed for by another teen. What a name killer - pun not intended.

North Face is hardly in the same $$ category also.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, not unless you live in a transitional area.

Transitional area? That is PC for what?

Areas with black teenagers who tend to kill each other over material items.

[Anonymous]

Just make sure it's not a HH jacket. Those thing are to DIE for!