I live about 5 km away from the Rhine River....in a quiet village of 4,000 resident on the outer-ring of the metro-city (285,000 residents).
So in the past ten years of living here:
1. The ATM machine (two banks in the village) was blown up like at 3 AM. Guys got away, but I doubt if they got more than 30,000 Euro in the effort. The building? Heavily damaged but repaired. I'm guessing insurance paid near 200k Euro for the ATM machine and damages.
2. The Post Office robbed at 4:55 PM one day....right before they closed. Armed guy.....he probably walked out with 5k Euro in cash.
3. The village averaged one stolen car a decade....then around seven years ago....we had like eight cars stolen in a six-month period. The renter's girl-friend in the house? Her 8-year old Audi station was one of those stolen. Since that period....we've gone back to the one car per decade.
4. We had some village gal (in her 40s)....got up early on a week-day (2 years ago). She intended to catch the 5:30 AM bus to work in the city. Walks out the door, and 2 minutes later on the way to the bus-stop.....guy appears (young guy)....grabs the purse and intends to take it. She fights him off.....struggle apparently going for 30 seconds, and she refuses to let go. He finally runs off.
There's not a week that passes that I don't browse the Wiesbaden police blotter, and there's probably 20 lines of text over bad-boy situations for the week.
Over-hyped on this business? Well....I had this mindset of the 1980s of old West Germany in my mind....where you could walk anywhere and feel 98-percent safe. Today? I'm a bit more mindful of the landscape and what's going on. Yeah, I'm browsing and being more vigilant than I used to be.
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