CP wrote --

> Like my buddy's dad who found a suitcase containing $20K under a
> garbage dumpster next to the grease dumpster he was emptying. Some thing told him  to look in his rearview mirror one last time as he was pulling out forward, & he saw the handle.  He didn't turn it in 

  My luck it would mob or drug money and they would come looking for me. :)

> I've never been pickpocketed, but I used to wear pants tight enough so I'd feel my wallet even being nudged from the right-back pocket where I kept it (& where I could easily whip around to my right to nab the perp.

  The friend I was staying with in NYC told me to keep my wallet in a front
pocket, since pickpockets are active in large crowds.
  When I was in the Navy we had no real pockets in our blues.  One's wallet
was looped over the waist, so half was visible.  That was generally done in
the front with the jumper covering it.
 
 
> > But its such a bother having to replace bank cards, 

  Forgot to mention last time.
  I keep little in my chequing account, so if my card were lifted they
wouldn't get much.  The bulk of my bank money is in savings.
  With online banking I just move the amount I need from savings to
chequing if I'm going to make some (to me) large purchase or doing a lot of
shopping.

> Good to have a stash or three because you just never know.. .

  I used to have a fantasy of owning a pair of magic pants.
  However much money I needed was in my pocket, no more, no less.
  If I were buying something for a quarter, I had a quarter in my pocket.
If I were buy something that cost $2,892.31 (for example) I had exactly
$2.892.31 in my pocket. 

> Hiding it in plain sight is considered the best way, like  how New York diamond jewelers walk around with $100K in diamonds in a grubby paper lunch bag

  Yep.
  Someone snatching a bag might wind up with a bag full of diamonds or a
stale baloney sandwich.  :)
  Joe
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