Mildly Interesting

It's not that bad in a train, as people can't just run away before the next stop. You wouldn't have this level of trust in a street cafe for instance.

Just today some bastard stole my headlight from my bike. Like two hours ago. Finland. We're known as rather honest.

But the junkie who desperately needed a 10e flashlight is welcome to have it, the pathetic sack of shit.

It's really pretty simple, happy people don't tend to be assholes. Politicians, if you want less crime don't build more prisons, make life better. I mean, that's your job isn't it?

Same in Seoul. As a white guy from NYC it blew my fucking mind to see people just leave their stuff at cafes off busy streets. I don't leave my pockets unzipped yet alone leave anything I'm not actively trying to throw out unattended.

I've seen some videos of Russian tourists stealing stuff in Korea and it made national news. Here you can't get the police to file a report.

They seem to have erected some crude red force fields around their belongings.

Denmark is an extremely high trust society. Babies left in the carriage outside a shop, let yourself into the library after hours with your card, often things on the street that are for sale you can just take and mobile pay (like Venmo ~~but from the government~~) someone on the honor policy.

It's nice

It’s like this in (non-major city) Germany, with one exception: if you blink before locking your bike up, it’s gone. I’ve seen laptops in public areas sit undisturbed for hours, but almost everyone I know has had at least one bike stolen.

I had all my shit stolen in Spain.

Steal everything, leave the electronics.

This is one of the fundamental things in danish society. We live in a society.

I love denmark 🇩🇰

Trains are pretty safe but we're currently experiencing a bike crime epidemic. Which I suppose is itself very Danish.

TBF on a train, there aren't a lot of places anything could disappear to unless there's a stop in between.

Maybe the value of the digital stuff is nothing compared to the heroin being transported in the bags!

Not uncommon here in Japan, either. People leave phones/handbags to reserve a table when they go to order at the counter (at a cafe etc). It's nice not to have to constantly worry about theft as much as other some countries. Not to say that there is no crime because that's not true.

This post stress me the hell out.

It's funny how even in countries where people leave their expensive belongings unattended without worrying still sees bikes as acceptable targets as if it's like a global standard. I would also put umbrellas there too.

Yep. Just basic trust in human decency in action. This shouldn't be news worthy. It's theft that's unusual and immoral and should be the cause for concern.

I was studying abroad in a place where this kinda trust exists, while on my original country is not that kind of place you would leave a tablet or a phone visible (or anything alone at all). I decided to join the university gym during my studies. After the shower I go into the changing room and there were a couple of guys talking in my mother language, but you know, people get naked and it is not the kind of place to be making friends or start random conversations, so I mind my own business and I hear one of them say "hey man I got my laptop with me, where can I put it to keep it safe?" And the other answered "nah don't worry man, just leave it there no one will touch it or know it is there".

They proceded to go into the shower, I was left alone, of course no cameras, I could have taken a free laptop and leave. But I just thought how interesting that we are willing to trust others being abroad and in our own place we would never do that. Those guys never knew I understood all they said. But I rather not get the free laptop and feel like I can live in such a country where I can trust others to do the right thing.

Me, after my soul-sucking devices are stolen on vacation: “oh no. I’m free.”

Many parts of Asia are also like this

Some parts of the US are like this, usually affluent cities where strangers are willing to yell at other strangers on your behalf / out of a sense of collective justice. But they were probably paying attention to your stuff already because they thought it was suspicious that someone got up and left behind a whole-ass bag.