Hat theft! Happen to You?

[John in Covina]

Matt's tale of woe at the QM event where some slime ball walked off with his favorite Borsalino just chaps my hide! Has anyone else had their hat stolen while out? I lost my newsboy cap in similar circumstances. Now's your chance to rant!

Does it come down to that out of a bunch of friends out together, someone has to stay at the table to watch the stuff all of the time?

 

[Indy Magnoli]

Yep. :rage: I had my Herbert Johnson fedora snatched out of the back of church! I remember seeing a shady tatooed skinhead character wandering around the place. When I came out of church about half an hour later my hat was gone. Needless to say... I wasn't happy. One of the parishoners said she saw the guy fingering my fedora at one point.

In my distress a generous COW member gave me his grey Akubra Federation to hold me over until I replaced my HJ. It was a sad loss as I got this hat directly from Mr. Swales in London after having met him and discussed the details of what I wanted. It had followed me on several adventures and now is, who knows where, in who knows what condition!

Kind regards,
Magnoli

 

[Sefton]

Any "man" that would swipe another man's hat is just too low! I keep mine on my head unless there's a safe spot where I can actually see it (restaurants,bars,etc.) I also keep my name and address on a card inside the sweat band. Of course that won't do any good for theft or if it's found by someone lacking an ethical backbone. Sorry to hear about Matt's Borso...

 

[Sefton]

Yep. :rage: I had my Herbert Johnson fedora snatched out of the back of church!
Kind regards,
Magnoli

In a church yet! Yikes, just awful!

 

[John in Covina]

I had my Herbert Johnson fedora snatched out of the back of church!

*****
Talk about ethically challenged!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Hat theft? Not yet. Hat misplacement and loss? Guilty :eusa_doh:


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[Aaron Hats]

It happens more than you think. Not a week goes by where I don't hear from a customer who's had a hat stolen.

 

[John in Covina]

Lo-Jack for hats needed!

Lo-Jack for hats, that's what we need.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I believe that in the Inferno, Dante described a circle of hell for these people. It must have resembled the '70s TV show, Lidsville.



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[John in Covina]

In the Lake of Fire!

I believe that in the Inferno, Dante described a circle of hell for these people. It must have resembled the '70s TV show, Lidsville..

In the lake of fire there will be people only knee deep (mostly automatic transmission repairmen) however they will be standing on the shoulders of our hat thieves!

 

[WideBrimm]

Hat theft hasn't happened to me yet. If I'm going to some public place where I'd have to leave my hat off of my head and unattended, I'll leave it in the car and wear a ball cap, which I can then stuff in my back pocket when necessary.

 

[Wconly]

This has happened to me one time. Years ago, my wife (ex) and I were at a New Year's Eve Party. I had an Indy-style Stetson. At the time it was the coolest hat I had ever had the pleasure to own. When we went to the coat/hat check out at the hotel, we were in. It was gone! I totally came un-glued! I started complaining to the person that was in the booth and then to the manager of the hotel. Low and behold....here came three guys (all teenagers) with one wearing my hat! He was two times bigger than me, but it did not stop me from comfronting him. My wife, almost died, but I pushed him into the wall and gave him a strict lecture about theft -- especially a person's hat -- and, the love an value that we place in these instruments of self-gratification.

Looking back, it probably wasn't worth the anger, but I think I made a solid impression on him that will last a life-time. My wife thought I was nuts -- so be it -- it was 'my' hat, and no one walks away with another man's hat without paying the price. Just my 'two cents'! W>

 

[moustache]

Sheesh

Wconly said:Looking back, it probably wasn't worth the anger, but I think I made a solid impression on him that will last a life-time. My wife thought I was nuts -- so be it -- it was 'my' hat, and no one walks away with another man's hat without paying the price. Just my 'two cents'! W>[/QUOTE]

I would have done the same thing!!!At least i hope i would have.
There is just no accountability in this day and age.Some of the young ones KNOW that they are untouchable by anyone over 18 and that they can do what they want.
No consequences for actions if you ask me.
Get close to my Borsalino and....
Call it that Italian fiery temper.
Maybe cutting off the heads(so they cannot wear the hat stolen),i mean hands,of those who steal???
Nah. Too much i guess.


Jim in Vancouver,Wa

 

[John in Covina]

I pushed him into the wall and gave him a strict lecture about theft -- especially a person's hat -- and, the love an value that we place in these instruments of self-gratification. Looking back, it probably wasn't worth the anger, but I think I made a solid impression on him that will last a life-time. My wife thought I was nuts -- so be it -- it was 'my' hat, and no one walks away with another man's hat without paying the price. Just my 'two cents'! W>

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Righteous indignation is necessary, because if you let it go and let these people get away with it, then you enable them in their immorality and lack of empathy for others. Everytime, someone gets away with this type of injustice it emboldens them to do more of it, to be more brazen and to have less compassion for their fellow man. You did, not only the creep a favor, hopefully putting him on the straight and narrow, but society a favor, for all the people he hopefully decided not to screw over, since that time. Some people are saved from themselves if they are made too nervous to steal.

 

[Wconly]

Wconly said:Looking back, it probably wasn't worth the anger, but I think I made a solid impression on him that will last a life-time. My wife thought I was nuts -- so be it -- it was 'my' hat, and no one walks away with another man's hat without paying the price. Just my 'two cents'! W>

I would have done the same thing!!!At least i hope i would have.
There is just no accountability in this day and age.Some of the young ones KNOW that they are untouchable by anyone over 18 and that they can do what they want.
No consequences for actions if you ask me.
Get close to my Borsalino and....
Call it that Italian fiery temper.
Maybe cutting off the heads(so they cannot wear the hat stolen),i mean hands,of those who steal???
Nah. Too much i guess.


Jim in Vancouver,Wa[/QUOTE]

Too much perhaps...but I do understand. I honest to goodness, don't think I have been soooooo angry before or since! I came very close to giving him the 'bashing' of his life, however, a hat is not worth going to jail for -- after all, the victum, not the thief, according to pc law is the one that is quilty. Doesn't that just cut you one? W>

 

[dzacca]

I'm one of the unlucky who had an hat theft...

It happened a few weeks ago, I was out for dinner with some friends an I stupidly left my hat in the wardrobe of the restaurant... When we finished and were leaving my hat's gone... it was a stetson sardis I used to wear when raining...

No way to find out who I have to thank for this disappearance.... :rage:

 

[matei]

I've had people try to snatch it off my head (bold gits) while walking down the street.

 

[Fletch]

My dad had a Borsalino boosted from a coat check. In 1963.

It hacked him so much he stopped wearing hats entirely, except winter caps and such.

 

[Pilgrim]

Every time I have to take a hat off I remember ths signs on older restaurants:

"Watch your hat & coat".

Word to live by today as well.

 

[Dinerman]

I had one stolen at school. The kid who took it was stupid enough to wear it the next day, and I spotted him. I pushed him into a wall , and took it back.