Start a thread about how you broke your toe riding a bicycle when you were
8...see how many other similar tales will come from folks...point being,
while in the same pond, tell the same type of fish story.   :-)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Proudfoot, Bill [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 12:43 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: David Greer Sighting
>
> Wirt wrote
>
>         ( Quoting three unfortunate incidents involving loss of equipment
> )
>
> > I can't remember a time when so many people have told me similar
> stories.
> It
> > may all be a coincidence. Or, on the other hand, it may not.
>
>         If it isn't a coincidence what is it ??  Given the predominance of
> U.S.
>         citizens on this list it's easy to see things that 'are not
> there'.
> I'm
>         wondering how many tales could be told by Europeans travelling in
> the
>         U.S. - trouble is the only two that sprang to mind ended with a
> dead
>         Brit.
>
>
> Bill
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 12 July 2001 17:49
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] David Greer Sighting
>
>
> Peter Burgess writes:
>
> > Just to put things in balance I actually live in Paris as a foreigner
> >  being
> >  British and have to travel to Gare du Nord as part of my journey
> >  everyday
> >  and have never been pick pocketed (yet !) or had an bad experience. The
> >  first time I was travelling on the metro at Gare du Nord. I obviously
> >  looked
> >  lost and someone came over and assisted me and checked I had not paid
> >  too much for my ticket.
> >
> >  I have probably been accosted more in my home country of England than
> >  being abroad.
>
> Of course, none of the comments are meant to imply that the vast majority
> of
> people in Europe who you run into are not kind and considerate, and will
> not
> go out of their way to help you.
>
> However, it's also important to put all of this in context, as everyone
> keeps
> saying. As far to experienced travelers, I don't think you can find anyone
> more "experienced" than Birket. In fact, it's hard to get him to sit
> still.
> If he can have his equipment stolen, it can happen to anyone.
>
> And I mentioned two other people have recently told me the same thing
> regarding their trips to Europe. I only have one of the emails still on my
> email stack, but the fellow who wrote it is a native European and now a
> NASA
> scientist in the US. The relevant part of what he wrote on May 22nd was:
> "Your e-mail reached me when I was on a series of lectures in Europe....
> Unfortunately, I can't see how it looks like using your software. I don't
> have a windows machine. For that matter, I don't even have a Mac anymore
> (it
> was stolen in Holland). I only have a Unix box."
>
> Vendors unfortunately travel a great deal and we all talk to one another.
> I
> can't remember a time when so many people have told me similar stories. It
> may all be a coincidence. Or, on the other hand, it may not.
>
> Under any circumstance, it never hurts to take an extra bit of care.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
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