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24 September 2022, 04:48 AM | #1 |
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"Jeff's video is far too grainy to see much. You can track the assailant making his approach, then getting closer, and then Jeff discovering his watch is gone, but you really only know these things because the written story tells you what's happening. Otherwise, you're just kind of watching a crowd in a bar. Reading this story, particularly since the watch belonged to his father when Jeff was young, the only person you care about at all is Jeff.
Theft videos with crisper, more cinematic footage turn the crime into a movie. In Ocean's Eleven and other heist flicks, you side with the thief as much as you do the victim. The criminal is, after all, the protagonist, who usually has good reasons for wanting to pull one over on someone richer. The videos offer no such noble motivation. Still, it's a strange reversal to see luxury-watch collectors – who are, by definition, privileged to own multiple examples of wrist-borne jewelry that nobody can be said to actually need – claiming victimhood. We observe this in comments posted to the videos: "A terrible world we live in"; "The story now in every city"; "It's awful that people would rather take from someone than earn that stuff themselves." Many of these comments have a grain of truth to them, but they also tread on hoary stereotypes about urban crime and ignore the overwhelmingly long odds against bootstrapping your way to a perpetual calendar." |
24 September 2022, 04:49 AM | #2 |
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Cool story, would not read again
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24 September 2022, 04:54 AM | #3 |
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The article missed a great opportunity to focus on the why, and the lack of law enforcement.
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24 September 2022, 05:01 AM | #4 |
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Agreed. I want those 30 seconds back...
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24 September 2022, 05:05 AM | #5 |
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Wut?
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24 September 2022, 05:10 AM | #6 |
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Is there a link to the video?
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24 September 2022, 05:11 AM | #7 |
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24 September 2022, 05:20 AM | #8 |
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Wrong Forum, Bruh.... please review the guidelines.
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24 September 2022, 07:40 AM | #9 |
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What about it?
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24 September 2022, 07:59 AM | #10 |
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Only a fool would agree with that.
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24 September 2022, 08:10 AM | #11 |
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TLDR and glad of it.
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24 September 2022, 08:52 AM | #12 |
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That article is all sorts of wrongheaded, but "lack of law enforcement?" Are we supposed to want a cop on literally every corner? As if the only thing keeping people from committing crimes is the threat of getting caught?
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24 September 2022, 11:08 AM | #13 |
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It's pretty well accepted that what I the online world needs more of..in fact probably the most important aspect of continued evolution of the internet and maybe even artificial intelligence...is to cut and paste stuff with zero context.
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TL; DR: Hodinkee Sells Watch Insurance.
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That fact that this is even up for discussion is a nasty indictment of our society today. Whether or not the OP is just a troll or not, the feelings in the post are shared by far too many people today. Repulsive really. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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