this is part of our street, and as you can see, leaves are coming down!! when we got back home 2 or 3 weeks ago a handbag was lying next door, right in that corner under the 9, and all its contents were next to it. after staring at it for a bit, i decided to pick it all up. seeing there was no phone, wallet or anything else valuable, it seemed to have been dumped there, after all that had been taken.
we did find a diary with a name and phone number, but the number wasnt answered (i guess because the thieves just had taken that phone). upon further inspection, i discovered the idiot thieves hadnt taken everything; a small pocket inside the bag still contained some 50 euros! tim then just dialed the first random number he found scribbled down on a piece of paper. although that person actually didnt know the owner of the bag, her boyfriend did and so a few days later she came to pick it up. this is what happened; she was biking, in broad dayligyht!! her bag was in the basket in front of her bike. while 2 guys on a scooter passed her, they took the bag. she then tried to pull it back from them, but they wouldnt let go of it and she fell off her bike, the guys speeding away with her bag. she lost her phone, wallet, etc etc...AND she didnt dare biking alone anymore....
unfortunately, this happens quite a lot in amsterdam (and elsewhere in the netherlands?). so, beware!! (the other day it was the scooter that crashed while they tried to rip a handbag off a bicyclist, and still they managed to get away with the handbag; those at least got caught by the police soon after..)
6 comments:
See, you just can't stop posting. Your stories are better than those of Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert.
What a nice thing you did.
This is so disappointing. When I have been in Amsterdam, it seemed friendly and happy. I missed all of the bad stuff like this.
The scene looks like it could be in my neighbourhood and I'm far away in Canada. PS: Keep you camera handy and see if you can get a photo of the brazen thieves.
Yes a big problem in big cities those terror scooter thieves. Good you found the owner of the bag.
I'm starting to get a pretty troubling opinion of Amsterdam, but at least it's not stories of crazy people with guns or bombs. Is unemployment high there?
Crime is everywhere, which is so bad because it takes the pleasure out of biking or walking alone. You are Tim were wonderful to pursue finding the owner.
Post a Comment