tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post4687185635342701629..comments2023-11-03T14:30:45.289+01:00Comments on Red, White and Bleu: iPhone, uPhone, noPhoneParisgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541058433269818013noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post-76302566467308941592009-05-05T22:49:00.000+02:002009-05-05T22:49:00.000+02:00Horrible. He should have been all tea and sympathy...Horrible. He should have been all tea and sympathy.Iota https://www.blogger.com/profile/08507184283437057648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post-6609647746977250902009-04-30T11:19:00.000+02:002009-04-30T11:19:00.000+02:00NWBD, if you get one just make sure it's insured. ...NWBD, if you get one just make sure it's insured. One in five are being stolen.<br />Thanks Scotty, but didn't the Good Lord reimburse you on exes! Hope you're off the sofa by now.<br />Nota Bene, well done for thinking of a good retort at the time. I only think of them afterwards...<br />Penni, I am trying not to be vindictive but I hope the thief is really, really unhappy and that what goes around comes around.<br />Anon, Indeed I have complained but it seems it happens so often these days it's not even a story.<br />Paradise, I'd rather liked to have stayed and tracked down the bloody thief!Parisgirlhttp://redwhiteandblue.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post-84035032550742480162009-04-29T20:37:00.000+02:002009-04-29T20:37:00.000+02:00poor you, what an awful business. That's all you n...poor you, what an awful business. That's all you need on the last night of yr holiday plus a really unco-operative, sarcastic police officer. I agree with Penni, why on earth wd you be wasting time in the middle of the ngiht concocting such a story. I guess it made you happy to go back to France...Paradise Lost In Translationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08507703496080523959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post-86077087449365787402009-04-29T15:33:00.000+02:002009-04-29T15:33:00.000+02:00use your influence and report this incident. The p...use your influence and report this incident. The police are paid to do a job and although they have to work some nights that is part of the job. Courtesy costs nothing and the lack of caring was obvious. Probably did not want to do the paperwork attached to the repoted crime.A letter to his boss would not go amis either, and what a lovely story for the papers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post-90953309300309226162009-04-29T00:37:00.000+02:002009-04-29T00:37:00.000+02:00Oh really. If it was a lie, it would have been far...Oh really. If it was a lie, it would have been far more believable. Does he not know the first thing about fiction? Someone should make him do a creative writing course. I do despair.<br /><br />Crime sucks (though the idea of you being shot at in warzones made me suck in my breath...of course I knew you were a war reporter. But still. Scary stuff.) <br /><br />Hopefully the iPhone makes your criminal miserable, and they mend their wicked ways, in a sophisticated way that somehow involves your policeman and there is a morality tale for all.Penni Russonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post-52948675489872892072009-04-28T22:18:00.000+02:002009-04-28T22:18:00.000+02:00What a shame. That you had your phone stolen. An...What a shame. That you had your phone stolen. And you met PC Pratt. When my car was broken into, the police were less than interested 'Happens about 20 times a day they' said. 'So that's twenty times a day you don't do your job then.' I retorted. It felt good at the time.Nota Benehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00969705852180234416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post-61111133548144891522009-04-28T18:04:00.000+02:002009-04-28T18:04:00.000+02:00Deepest commiserations my dear girl. Having once p...Deepest commiserations my dear girl. Having once parted company with a laptop with almost £3,000 in unsigned travellers cheques in the carrier flap on my way home from an assignment in Paris, I recall that queasy feeling in the gut only too well.<br />My poor partner went through the same hell a couple of weeks back when her handbag went missing on a trip to the supermarket.<br />She was too shaken and tearful to make all the calls cancelling bank and credit cards, applying for a replacement driving licence, etc. etc. All her expensive makeup was gone, along with her purse, personal diary and contacts book.<br />When we phoned the police they didn't want to know. <br />All the constable offered up was a website where we had to register the details ourselves.<br />The other day, however, events took a dramatic turn.<br />While cleaning out the garage, I picked up my golf bag and found it a bit heavier than before. When I turned it round, there, hooked round my putter, was a shiny black leather handbag with contents intact.<br />My partner didn't know whether to laugh, cry or give me a whack. The clubs had been in the boot during the shopping trip and it had all been one dreadful piece of bad luck that the handbag took such a unnoticed fancy to them.<br />Hope to move back off the sofa some night soon :o)scottynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post-64374104829610029272009-04-28T15:26:00.000+02:002009-04-28T15:26:00.000+02:00Having lusted after an iPhone since
last Christmas...Having lusted after an iPhone since<br />last Christmas, I share your grief over it's loss.<br /><br />What a bummer of an experience though, I was getting cross just reading about it.<br /><br />You must have been just about ready to explode,<br /><br />GGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post-28675648458845165442009-04-28T15:13:00.000+02:002009-04-28T15:13:00.000+02:00Thanks Dumdad and Dragondays. I was upset but it's...Thanks Dumdad and Dragondays. I was upset but it's true, it is just a telephone albeit a very expensive one!<br /><br />Annie, I have had no personal experience of the police in France so it wouldn't be fair to comment. As for being virulent; I do believe that people everywhere have a right to expect respect and consideration from their public servants including - even especially - police officers.<br /><br />Cimon, thanks for your comment, which puts the petty theft of a mobile telephone into perspective. You are right, personal experiences are not general rules; I just hope the London police officer I dealt with is more sympathetic to someone who has suffered a sexual assault like the poor intern you helped.Parisgirlhttp://redwhiteandbleu.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post-23235130735084443392009-04-28T10:50:00.000+02:002009-04-28T10:50:00.000+02:00@ Annie
I remember having been to the police in L...@ Annie<br /><br />I remember having been to the police in Les Halles in Paris after someone intended to rape the intern (who came from Spain and had no idea of how to proceed, and was obviously upset) we had hired.<br /><br />You might think a rape intent (which, in French law, is considered a successful rape, if I may write it this way, which means a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison) would be considered something important by the police station.<br /><br />It seems it was not the case, since we were sent to various police stations, that all (but the last) declined to file a complaint, and later discovered they did not want for the police station statistics would be just too bad.<br /><br />A policeman even told us that the police would never find the agressor, so why file a complaint ?<br /><br />I guess there are disfunctions in London as well as Paris, and we cannot draw statistical conclusions from our personnal experience. So consider it just the way it is : a personnal experience.Cimonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08162943665797137802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post-43421885770741519472009-04-28T08:55:00.000+02:002009-04-28T08:55:00.000+02:00Il me semble qu'en France votre plainte pour vol a...Il me semble qu'en France votre plainte pour vol aurait été enregistrée sans problèmes, non ?...Et si jamais cela n'avait pas été le cas, vous auriez été encore plus virulente...annienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post-11712315559753504462009-04-27T20:26:00.000+02:002009-04-27T20:26:00.000+02:00Use your contacts, girl!Use your contacts, girl!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1988897878875491148.post-9253854491177363412009-04-27T19:01:00.000+02:002009-04-27T19:01:00.000+02:00What a horrible way to end your holiday. And what ...What a horrible way to end your holiday. And what a horrible sounding policeman. I could feel myself getting angry the more he fobbed you off.Dumdadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00070838905120958459noreply@blogger.com