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    It's been a bad day....

    For this bloke:

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    He was 22 and wearing £1million worth of watch? Frankly, he had it coming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Onelasttime View Post
    He was 22 and wearing £1million worth of watch? Frankly, he had it coming.
    What age would he needed to have been to not have it coming?

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    Yes I saw that too. Not sure what is more shocking, that he is 22 or that something that ugly can be worth so much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gcleminson View Post
    What age would he needed to have been to not have it coming?
    He was a kid wearing a £1million wristwatch in a tourist hot spot. He got mugged. Quelle surprise.

    With age comes experience and a sense of responsibility that might have suggested walking around a tourist town flaunting a £1million wrist watch wasn't a very good idea.

    What I am not saying is that anyone deserves to be mugged, but, you know, sometimes people don't help themselves do they?

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    Stupid is stupid regardless of age... he may have wised up with some years but he may well just have become a more experienced silly person

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    How on earth is a holiday resort pickpocket going to move that on? Then again, if the pickpocket could identify it as a RM and not something out of a Kinder egg then maybe he has rather good connections.

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    I'll guess the pickpocket will get £1k for it and sell it on to a senior criminal who'll either keep it or sell it on to someone higher up the food chain. The more change of hands, the greater the risk of being caught. I doubt anyone will pay more than £100k for it.

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    You appear to know a lot about it? Hmmm.

    Quote Originally Posted by stefmcd View Post
    I'll guess the pickpocket will get £1k for it and sell it on to a senior criminal who'll either keep it or sell it on to someone higher up the food chain. The more change of hands, the greater the risk of being caught. I doubt anyone will pay more than £100k for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TaketheCannoli View Post
    You appear to know a lot about it? Hmmm.
    Honest guv, I've been In Scotland all week..... :-P

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    Quote Originally Posted by TaketheCannoli View Post
    How on earth is a holiday resort pickpocket going to move that on? Then again, if the pickpocket could identify it as a RM and not something out of a Kinder egg then maybe he has rather good connections.
    I was thinking this but I guess you could say the same about million pound paintings that get stolen. There’s a buyer there somewhere I’m sure, probably some sort of big cheese criminal who runs the island’s drug supply or something.

    The thing is being a complex watch it’s pretty useless to own though, it’s effectively dead money for whoever buys it surely. Can’t exactly send it in for service or repair can they. It’s not like a Rolex or something where he could take it to a no questions asked repairer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stefmcd View Post
    I'll guess the pickpocket will get £1k for it and sell it on to a senior criminal who'll either keep it or sell it on to someone higher up the food chain. The more change of hands, the greater the risk of being caught. I doubt anyone will pay more than £100k for it.

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    It'll be on SC next week and some will be arguing that the value's too high as it has no B&P.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stefmcd View Post
    I'll guess the pickpocket will get £1k for it and sell it on to a senior criminal who'll either keep it or sell it on to someone higher up the food chain. The more change of hands, the greater the risk of being caught. I doubt anyone will pay more than £100k for it.

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    Pay 100k for a watch you can never ever get serviced. He will be lucky to get 5k max. Once it stops working may as well put it in the bin

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    Maybe the guy is so rich that was his beater watch so he doesn't really care..


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    Proves that money cant buy taste.

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    I'm dissapointed that a £1m watch only has 70hrs power reserve.

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    Should have been wearing a Credor!

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    I guess the guy thought that compared to Azerbaijan, Ibiza would be safe!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrGrumpy View Post
    I guess the guy thought that compared to Azerbaijan, Ibiza would be safe!
    Lol. Reminds me of being in a taxi with my mate John going through Hastings. John asked where the (obviously foreign) driver was from and he replied "Afghanistan".

    John said "You must be missing it having to live in this sh*t hole" :)

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    I get what you're saying, of course.

    You're applying a level of judgement based on the value of the watch though.

    Pure speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that other factors picked him out as a 'mark', and the value of the watch they managed to snatch from him was a surprise even to them.




    Quote Originally Posted by Onelasttime View Post
    He was a kid wearing a £1million wristwatch in a tourist hot spot. He got mugged. Quelle surprise.

    With age comes experience and a sense of responsibility that might have suggested walking around a tourist town flaunting a £1million wrist watch wasn't a very good idea.

    What I am not saying is that anyone deserves to be mugged, but, you know, sometimes people don't help themselves do they?
    Last edited by gcleminson; 26th June 2019 at 17:24.

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    It's been a bad day....

    Strange news... In that part of Ibiza, in daylight? Doubt it. And hey, I have been robbed in Ibiza: by night, while I was sleeping. 5 watches, a Breitling, a Panerai, a Rolex, a Eterna, a Baume Mercier Ouch!


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    Coming from the daily reich I'm suprised they haven't insinuated the thief was a single mother on universal credit or Jeremy Corbin,these nasty scare stories must have their readership too scared to go to m+s to do their weekly shop

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    I think the thief probably threw the watch in a bin when he realised it wasn't a G-Shock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TaketheCannoli View Post
    How on earth is a holiday resort pickpocket going to move that on? Then again, if the pickpocket could identify it as a RM and not something out of a Kinder egg then maybe he has rather good connections.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Onelasttime View Post
    He was 22 and wearing £1million worth of watch? Frankly, he had it coming.
    Extreme but if it was a girl wearing a mini skirt with her chest out would she have deserved what she got too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TaketheCannoli View Post
    Lol. Reminds me of being in a taxi with my mate John going through Hastings. John asked where the (obviously foreign) driver was from and he replied "Afghanistan".

    John said "You must be missing it having to live in this sh*t hole" :)
    Your mate John must be a complete jerk.....

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    Bit harsh saying he had it coming- it’s not as if he was at the Rio carnival staying in a drug ridden favela....Ibiza town marina is full of Russian oligarchs yachts etc and the ultra rich- certainly not a place most would worry about wearing any watch....

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    Insurance scam

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    Quote Originally Posted by paskinner View Post
    Your mate John must be a complete jerk.....
    It’s called humour. He’s a fantastic lad and missed his vocation as a stand up comic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TaketheCannoli View Post
    It’s called humour. He’s a fantastic lad and missed his vocation as a stand up comic.
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