I was treasurer of the Uni's Shotokan Karate club in 2002
I'd just collected about £300 in training fees for the 1st term, and it was in my jacket pocket. We went to the Sports Union bar (during term time, pretty much the only people in there are students from sports clubs that have been kicked out the sports buildings at the end of the day. During the Edinburgh festival, you know it as the bestest comedy venue, the Pleasance)

My jacket was a long, woolen thing, and I'd left it draped over a chair. I'd only nipped to the bar for a minute, and I looked over to see a heroin-addled jakie from the adjacent scheme place his jacket over mine (which looked stupid-- a shell suit jacket over my long coat) and lift it up and place his hand over the zipped up pocket...

He was restrained, and the staff called the police. He had over £300 cash on him-- none of it the Karate club's.

So students-- don't be daft and leave money in your jacket. You are *very* easy pickings. Scumbags can make alot of money that way. And better than that, since he hadn't taken any of my money, the police had to let him go, with the cash. Gah!
( drunkenoaf, Sun 18 Jun 2006, 19:56, Reply)