"We have to document each sign," Ismail said, "because they usually get stolen within a day or two".
True, Sherrie has her suitcase stolen within minutes of arriving, but here's the good news: she meets a guy!
I also note that phone operators have finally agreed to a cap of £100 if a phone is reported stolen within 24 hours.
Under the Code of practice on consumer billing, customers' liability for such charges is capped at £100 provided the phone is reported lost or stolen within 24 hours.
A boxer and trumpeter, Butch Brown (Kyle Robert Carter), arrives from Chicago to find his fortune, only to have his horn stolen within minutes.
So far, eight of the bikes have been stolen – although two have since been recovered – in contrast to the similar vélib' scheme in Paris that saw 3,000 bikes stolen within the first 12 months of its launch.
Telefónica's Pablo Montesano, who was on hand to show journalists the technology, says mobile phone users, on average, report their handset stolen within 13 minutes of its loss – it takes much longer for bank card users to realise their purse or wallet has gone.
But those who disagreed would occasionally point to the fact that nothing was tangibly "stolen" within this process — a given song was merely duplicated and shared among interested parties (without damaging the original or removing it from anyone else's collection).
Differences in distribution shape are computed using the non-parametric Kolmogorov-Smirnov D. Between 1 Jan 2003 and 31 December 2004, 63,528 vehicles were reported stolen within the City of Los Angeles (Federal Bureau of Investigation 2003 2006).
