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A few days ago I found out my Trek mountain bike had been stolen from the cellar in the apartment block where I live. The thing that surprises me most is that to access this cellar you need to be a resident with a key, so in classic crime parlance - it’s an inside job. Now coming from London I am used to crime and have had a lot of burglaries and stuff stolen but there was usually the strange reassurance that it was an outsider/intruder and not someone I might know normally as a respectable neighbour. This is strange to me, in addition in my apartment building we have had the tire valves from our kids buggy stolen at least 3 times…petit but annoying and the GPS system stolen from our car twice. I have to say though that generally Berlin seems safe in terms of street crime and is far less aggressive than London, you don’t see gangs hanging around L.A. style looking for easy pickings in terms of muggings. I think the crimes here are more under the surface and less visible.
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1 HCL // Nov 14, 2007 at 9:37 am
I am shure. The thief was not one of your neighbours. Every security lock is superable, or however the saying is. There are hundreds of possible scenarios of a »social hacking« attack to this cellar, and in an area with more “healthy” people it would make sense to access to these cellars even if you dont know what you would find there..
(where I live the cellars get broken in traditionally: by brute force. And I bet it was indeed someone I might know normally as one of the “respectable neighbours”)
2 Dazzliod // Nov 14, 2007 at 9:44 am
It could have been related to the cleaners, they may have left the door open whilst getting their cleaning materials in/out. Respectable neighbours…I wonder if that term applies to life in 2007. I don’t like it anyway.
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