perkana wrote:Adurentibus Spina wrote:I understand what Perkana and Mockbee are trying to say, but I have to disagree that "not wearing jewelery" is "common sense".
Sorry, forgot to say here it is. If you've heard stories or seen people mugged because of their jewelry or having their phones out of their pockets/bags. You would be stupid not to follow your common sense

... I'm confused... why is this common sense? Yes, there are stories about those things. But they're not that common, at least, in most cities. I won't use my own experiences here, because I'm a guy, and I guess the equivalent would be yeah, the phone, or a laptop, or money.
Common sense might, for example, suggest that you don't flip through a stack of cash or have your wallet out on the subway, or in a crowded city in general. But as with general guidelines for tourists, proper common sense isn't "don't do this or that specific thing because causality is magic and bad guys might be around", but rather be aware of your surroundings, especially when in a place you don't know well. For women, obviously there's an extra level of caution/danger because of size/strength/sexual stuff, but if it's just a matter of getting ripped off, well, yes, it might depend on which country you're visiting, which part of which city, etc., but I think it's just wrong to think that the kind of caution you're suggesting is "common sense" is really true everywhere, so I'm not really sure why you've said a few times "follow your common sense"... what do you mean, exactly? Do you mean the common sense that you use to avoid problems in Mexico? Because that's exactly the thing I'm saying just isn't the same everywhere.
I know people who have been mugged dozen of times.
I don't know anyone who has ever been mugged. I heard about one kid at the skatepark once who had a gun pulled on him so he gave up his cellphone, but I didn't know the kid, and that isn't common. That's what's so puzzling about your insistence that your guidelines are "common sense".