Posted on 05/22/2019 6:34:59 AM PDT by ptsal
Original full title "New market opens up in Mexico for sale of $10 fake cellphones bought by fearful locals who hand them over in muggings"
Commuters are turning to a new tactic when tasked with being forced to hand over their cellphones to thieves aboard buses in Mexico City.
The clever residents are now buying fake smartphones as they seek to combat muggers who demand their real handheld devices.
Merchants are selling the 'dummies' that cost 180 to 800 pesos, approximately $10 to $40, in the historic city center.
The devices are so sophisticated that they feature a startup screen and bodies that are dead ringers for the originals, and inside there is a piece of metal to give the phone the heft of the real article.
Public transportation customers have found the fakes to come in handy when trying to fool trigger-happy bandits who regularly attack the buses, big and small, that ferry people from the poorer outlying suburbs to jobs in the Mexican capital city.
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It's gotta have a 7-megapixel camera, or no deal.
Lanyard!!!! Are you an Eagle Scout? Have not heard that word in decades. (old Girl Scout:)
Former Marine.
A ‘lanyard’:
This is the culture democrats are importing into our country...
#5 You need to carry a AK-47 with you while using the smart phone : )
This is the culture democrats are importing into our country...
The break-ins were to steal the car’s Blaupunkt radio.
In response, people started taking the radios with them
when leaving the car. But the break-ins continued.
So one beleaguered owner took his radio out and left
a sign on the car saying “No radio on car.”
When he returned, his windshield was shattered and scrawled over “No radio in car,” was “Get one.”
Great story spark...
Decades ago people in Miami would leave their car doors unlocked and windows down far enough so a person could reach in and unlock a door so the thieves wouldn’t break the windows to steal the radios.
Anti-theft blinking radios were a god-send...
In the late fifties, some models of Oldsmobile had a nice radio that could be slid out and used as a portable. Thieves loved ‘em.
On a side note, we had family friends who bought a new Dodge every year. In their 1956 Dodge Texas was an under dash mounted 45 rpm record player.
How, you might ask, could a stylus stay in the groove in a moving car? It was just a matter of keeping force on the stylus arm to keep it down. And it worked. It also wore the groove out so fast a record was only good for two or three plays. LOL
LOL - another great story spark. Thanks for sharing.
My flip phone is probably safe. They’d laugh and return it with an apology.
Or CREATE a need...real or fake. Like the AGW "scientists" who invented it as a way to get public money to "study" the "problem".
I ***LOVE*** it!!!!
Good idea.
I haven’t carried a purse in 40 years. Wallet, keys, & phone go in front pants pockets.
Shoulder holster under jacket.
My dad owned a commercial glass company. Apparently before he bought it, bricks through the window with a union business card was what encouraged the previous owner to join the union.
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