Letter: A Lack of Street Smarts

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 20 Juni 2013 | 13.26

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To the Editor:

Re "Coalition Will Seek to Curb the Theft of Smartphones" (Business Day, June 14), about efforts to make stolen phones useless:

People today are careless and easy targets when they carry electronic devices costing hundreds or thousands of dollars.

I was a teenager in the early 1970s, and I learned a set of city survival skills that I use to this day: always be aware of my surroundings, never display large amounts of cash, keep my personal belongings hidden.

In just the last year I've observed a woman at a bus stop with her Apple computer open and oblivious to the street around her; a man carrying a wad of cash held together with a rubber band; a man in his 20s so engrossed in playing a game on his iPhone that he didn't even see the thief who made off with his wallet, which was on the bench next to him.

Maybe New Yorkers were smarter back in the 1970s.

GARY L. ADLER
Lynbrook, N.Y., June 14, 2013


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