Walking with expensive phones in Dublin

The last few phones I've bought didn't come with a charger just the cable.

Talking about being anxious using expensive phones in Dublin and of course the thread derails into a council estate bashing thread about low life's and drug dealers and a million things other than the actual thread title...

I wonder how some of you got through life on the "mean streets" of Dublin

Never change boards, never change...

If you are that afraid of the city centre, stay in the suburbs and whinge about it....

I am aware certain new phones don't come with chargers.

Look all I am saying is just to be cautious. As the article ( https://www.thejournal.ie/stolen-phones-ireland-5193112-Sep2020/ ) says 10,000 phones reported stolen and still out there since the start of 2019. You just know a chunk of them were sold online through the likes of adverts or donedeal or gumtree.

If I were to buy a phone off these sites tomorrow I don't like the idea of potentially handing some scumbag money after he ripped off some poor sod. Not to mention a phone can get blocked with the IMEI etc. So not only out of pocket out of a phone.

Of course you'll never know for sure. It's just something to look out for. If I met up with someone to buy a phone without a charger but seemed alright, seemed genuine, then sure. Fine. Should I meet another and he's a big skanger? No charger? Nah.

All I am saying is just something to look out for. That's of course, unless someone doesn't give a toss if a phone was stolen.

That's mad that possessions can get stolen from patients in hospital, aren't there any beside lockers or other lockers in the hospital? Not the first time I've heard of it, if a patient is incapable of caring for their belongings, then what are staff doing to keep patients belongings secure?

Yeah you have to be careful in a ward. Staff won't give a bollocks too. They've their own work to do.

Sure there are lockers but most of the time when you get stolen it's from someone else on the ward who saw you with a phone or laptop. Waited for you to take a shower, smoke or walk. You come back and it's done a vanishing act.

are you selling your phone or looking to sell phones?

Jaysus, shure thas gottin fookin' apokalypik in the kapital so thas....

When I heard that story, it was a guy on the New York Subway who had the ‘fake phone’ during the medical emergency….

Was on Talbot Street twice today. Both times had to use my phone. Had no problem whipping it out and using it for a few minutes each time. Ended up thinking of this thread and looking around. Both times, there were at several people either standing around and/or walking past with a phone in their hand or up to their ear (even a petite girl)

I'm not saying there is zero risk, but some people really need to calm down and take a deep breath. Dublin is not dangerous. Specific dodgy streets in Dublin are not dangerous. Yes, there are scumbags. But unless they are near you or coming towards you, you're pretty much fine.

Sorry but I just think your post there is full of shite. Like, compared to what you originally said, now you're trying to back track.

Ah say no more.

You, d have to be very close to someone to know is that a very expensive phone , a 100 euro phone looks the same as a 1000 euro phone when it's in a case . I don't think it's common for phones to be robbed unless you do something stupid like leave them in a car or on a table

The world is a kip, Dublin and Ireland are towards the safer end of it in general but still kips in parts. I'd suggest part of the problem is people can't stay off screen time for more than 2 mins even when out and about in kips. Anywhere in the world if you wave hundreds of euro in public you'll be robbed sooner rather than later. Scumbags are scumbags and it's in their nature, but the amount of people walking around posting and reading online is terrible to see.