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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 9:05 am
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Originally Posted by k374
I took a day trip to Macau today and unfortunately had a bad experience... somewhere coming out of the ferry terminal to catch the Venetian shuttle bus, perhaps when I was a bit distracted looking at the map, someone opened my backpack's outer pocket and helped themselves to my iPhone 3G On the bus I found the zipper open and my phone GONE!
I can see this happen (and happened often) not only in Macau, but basically anywhere in the world, even in US !


Originally Posted by kaka
anyway, to the OP. i have NO idea why you put ur phone in ur backpack... but anyway, its true that its a phone afterall, not wallet or passport.
Not to mention, thieves basically all over the world and even in the US already learned to open someone's backpack from behind even when one is not distracted, like when someone is standing still waiting for the bus, or just simply talking to someone.
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