Things you can’t do safely in DC

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't you guys tired of making these threads every day? If you are this exhausted consider moving, for the last time: city living comes with risk.

I cannot imagine having this much anxiety over something that is unlikely to happen.

In any major metropolitan city in the world [London, Brussels, Madrid, Sao Paulo] you can be mugged. DC is not unique in that.

Oh come on. Which country has the highest number of shootings and travel advisories?

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Anonymous wrote:Things you can do safely in DC:

Drive a 20 year old Toyota (like me)

Wear a lands end coat and have it not stolen (like me)

Use an android phone in public and no one even looks twice at it (like me)

Walk a mutt from the local shelter.

If you aren't styling and profiling, you have a much lower risk of getting robbed.

You could wear your designer clothes (at least in broad daylight as well as at night in well populated/nightlife areas) and walk a dog that you paid money for and have the latest iPhone and a new car … 10 years ago. It was a different place back then. What happened?

I went out a lot 10 years ago. Can't say that I remember anyone causally walking around in a mass market $2,000 Moncler puffer jacket.

Nobody cares about phones anymore. Your iphone isn't special.

Dogs though, that's messed up.

Nobody CARED about phones. That has changed. I was held up and gunpoint and told explicitly “I won’t take your wallet. Just your phone.”

And they specifically demand that you unlock it so they can have access to all your financial apps, Venmo, Uber etc. And why not? Most people have $10 cash at most in their wallets, if you steal a credit card I can call or go on my account online and cancel it so quickly it will never work. But they can do a lot of damage if they have your phone unlocked.

I have Venmo attached to my credit card. I guess I can cancel my credit card if my phone is stolen.

I never started using other financial apps and do it all via my laptop. Seems like I am dodging possible robbery.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Things you can do safely in DC:

Drive a 20 year old Toyota (like me)

Wear a lands end coat and have it not stolen (like me)

Use an android phone in public and no one even looks twice at it (like me)

Walk a mutt from the local shelter.

If you aren't styling and profiling, you have a much lower risk of getting robbed.

You could wear your designer clothes (at least in broad daylight as well as at night in well populated/nightlife areas) and walk a dog that you paid money for and have the latest iPhone and a new car … 10 years ago. It was a different place back then. What happened?

I went out a lot 10 years ago. Can't say that I remember anyone causally walking around in a mass market $2,000 Moncler puffer jacket.

Nobody cares about phones anymore. Your iphone isn't special.

Dogs though, that's messed up.

Nobody CARED about phones. That has changed. I was held up and gunpoint and told explicitly “I won’t take your wallet. Just your phone.”

And they specifically demand that you unlock it so they can have access to all your financial apps, Venmo, Uber etc. And why not? Most people have $10 cash at most in their wallets, if you steal a credit card I can call or go on my account online and cancel it so quickly it will never work. But they can do a lot of damage if they have your phone unlocked.

Which means they don't care about the phone. They want what it has access to.

Oh no, they care about the phone too. An unlocked phone can be wiped and resold. iPhones sell for a lot more used than most Android phones. Even if it’s not unlocked the parts can be sold. But the financial data is important too.

[Anonymous]

After being robbed of my phone at gunpoint I have deleted all financial apps off my replacement phone. We shouldn’t have to live this way. I hope people braver than I am start shooting back.

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Anonymous wrote:Things you can do safely in DC:

Drive a 20 year old Toyota (like me)

Wear a lands end coat and have it not stolen (like me)

Use an android phone in public and no one even looks twice at it (like me)

Walk a mutt from the local shelter.

If you aren't styling and profiling, you have a much lower risk of getting robbed.

You could wear your designer clothes (at least in broad daylight as well as at night in well populated/nightlife areas) and walk a dog that you paid money for and have the latest iPhone and a new car … 10 years ago. It was a different place back then. What happened?

I went out a lot 10 years ago. Can't say that I remember anyone causally walking around in a mass market $2,000 Moncler puffer jacket.

Nobody cares about phones anymore. Your iphone isn't special.

Dogs though, that's messed up.

Nobody CARED about phones. That has changed. I was held up and gunpoint and told explicitly “I won’t take your wallet. Just your phone.”

And they specifically demand that you unlock it so they can have access to all your financial apps, Venmo, Uber etc. And why not? Most people have $10 cash at most in their wallets, if you steal a credit card I can call or go on my account online and cancel it so quickly it will never work. But they can do a lot of damage if they have your phone unlocked.

Which means they don't care about the phone. They want what it has access to.

It would take an especially dumb criminal to use your Uber for a ride.

But then, with all of the information that would provide, would the DC police bother to follow up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After being robbed of my phone at gunpoint I have deleted all financial apps off my replacement phone. We shouldn’t have to live this way. I hope people braver than I am start shooting back.

That's racist!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After being robbed of my phone at gunpoint I have deleted all financial apps off my replacement phone. We shouldn’t have to live this way. I hope people braver than I am start shooting back.

LOL. No one in DC is going to do that. (1) Most people here wouldn’t even know how to defend themselves & (2) If you do successfully defend yourself through physical means, you are immediately doxed by the media, arrested, and charged as if you are the criminal. You most likely will be sued by the criminal’s family as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:- Drive a car
- wear a coat
- walk your dog
- eat at a restaurant
- be a member of the FBI, Secret Service or even the President’s own granddaughter
- shop for groceries

Ride a bike

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:- Drive a car
- wear a coat
- walk your dog
- eat at a restaurant
- be a member of the FBI, Secret Service or even the President’s own granddaughter
- shop for groceries

Ride a bike

Narrator’s voice. “DC currently has 62 miles of multi-use trails.“

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:- Drive a car
- wear a coat
- walk your dog
- eat at a restaurant
- be a member of the FBI, Secret Service or even the President’s own granddaughter
- shop for groceries

Ride a bike

Narrator’s voice. “DC currently has 62 miles of multi-use trails.“

Things you can do on a multi-use trail.

Riding a bike.
Walking.
Getting mugged while riding a bike.
Getting mugged while walking.

[Anonymous]

Posting on DCUM about an inconvenient truth.

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Anonymous wrote:Posting on DCUM about an inconvenient truth.

Careful, you are going to upset the locals with all this crime propaganda.

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Anonymous wrote:Things you can do safely in DC:

Drive a 20 year old Toyota (like me)

Wear a lands end coat and have it not stolen (like me)

Use an android phone in public and no one even looks twice at it (like me)

Walk a mutt from the local shelter.

If you aren't styling and profiling, you have a much lower risk of getting robbed.

You could wear your designer clothes (at least in broad daylight as well as at night in well populated/nightlife areas) and walk a dog that you paid money for and have the latest iPhone and a new car … 10 years ago. It was a different place back then. What happened?

I went out a lot 10 years ago. Can't say that I remember anyone causally walking around in a mass market $2,000 Moncler puffer jacket.

Nobody cares about phones anymore. Your iphone isn't special.

Dogs though, that's messed up.

Nobody CARED about phones. That has changed. I was held up and gunpoint and told explicitly “I won’t take your wallet. Just your phone.”

And they specifically demand that you unlock it so they can have access to all your financial apps, Venmo, Uber etc. And why not? Most people have $10 cash at most in their wallets, if you steal a credit card I can call or go on my account online and cancel it so quickly it will never work. But they can do a lot of damage if they have your phone unlocked.

I have Venmo attached to my credit card. I guess I can cancel my credit card if my phone is stolen.

I never started using other financial apps and do it all via my laptop. Seems like I am dodging possible robbery.

You’re not dodging anything. The kid with a gun to your head isn’t going to believe you don’t have any financial apps on your phone. They’ll make you unlock it and still take the phone.

[Anonymous]

Go to see the lights at Brookside Gardens w/o ending up in the middle of a police search for carjackers

[Anonymous]

Brookside Gardens light show has now been cancelled for tonight due to the search for the carjackers who fled onto trails.