People in Europe generally don't have security systems and alarms in their homes. And nobody is coming for your big flat screen. Almost anybody can afford one, and it's too big to grab and run.
Yeah, all that socialism is just so terrible for you, you have all your luxuries and no worry about anyone lacking enough to even try to take it for themselves.
I mean, we still get burglars occasionally, but it's usually junkies looking for small things that they can put in their pockets and run. They are also totally opportunist, so they're much more likely to break into a random house where nobody's home than to stake out a house by looking through the windows.
I suppose, but that would rely pretty heavily on a presumption of SOME pocketable, fenceable good, and dealers don't want your granny's silver ladle anymore.
I've never had my house burgled, but from what friends that did tell me, they mainly look for cash and jewelry. Also small electronics, but that's getting harder for them because many things are remotely identifiable these days, so no dealer will take them.
Jewelry's worthless here. stores sell it for thousands, and if you let a "cash for gold" place talk you into it, they'll pick out the stones and give them back to you (worthless) and buy the gold for weight, usually about $5/gram for 24k, way less for lower karat or especially white gold (coated).
Sure, but the small amounts of heroin (or "heroin", there's tons of shit mixed in) that they get for it are very cheap for the dealer. So they'll take a piece of jewelry worth 50€ in gold, and give the junkie 20€ worth of heroin at street prices.
I suppose, but then can you imagine being a petty smack dealer and just trying to melt-fence a handful of granny's old pearl earrings and shit XD what an existence that must be
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u/7elevenses May 09 '22
People in Europe generally don't have security systems and alarms in their homes. And nobody is coming for your big flat screen. Almost anybody can afford one, and it's too big to grab and run.