My dad remarked, on visiting NYC and riding the subway one day, that in the UK unattended packages left on public transportation were strictly left alone and at the next stop everyone on that car got off and summoned the constabulary. In NYC, as soon as the person left it unattended, people were already pilfering and plundering that.
It’s a learning curve.
In the UK, the IRA for years left bombs and such in ‘unattended packages’. In the midst of a similar ‘political movement’, the people of NYC would learn the same lesson(s).
Eventually, the druggies would learn to leave the dead bodies alone. Or, we’d run out of druggies desperate enough to reuse needles and plunder dead bodies. One or the other.
” In NYC, as soon as the person left it unattended, people were already pilfering and plundering that.”
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Slightly off topic but many years ago there was a garbage strike in NYC.
A man on TV said he just gift wrapped his garbage and left in in an unlocked car.
Poof,garbage gone.
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“A Food Crisis Follows Africa’s Ebola Crisis”
groundnuts = peanuts