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Originally posted by Zopa:
special case:
what do you do if you have to carry an amount in local currency that is literally enough to fill a duffle bag?

you put it in a duffel bag

I think that wearing a money belt, neck pouch, leg pouch, belt pouch or carrying your money and important documents in secrets pockets inside your pants, is very efficient against ordinary pickpockets. The problem is however how to avoid losing all your possesions, if you get mugged?

If the mugger asks you to strip, the money belt, neck pouch, leg pouch and belt pouch are all blown. If the mugger searches your body, all secret inside pockets in your pants and jacket will also get blown. If the mugger wants your daypack, your extra daypack cash will inevitably disappear...

In every case the key factor is of course to divide your belongings and hide them in different places. Lost money can always be replaced and credit cards cancelled immediately after the mugging, but how can you ever hide your most valuable possesion: your passport, on your body without anybody finding it?

Yeppp, pretty impossible. I guess that's just a risk that you have to accept in order to travel...

Muggers don't want your passport, they want your money. In any event, muggers tend to mug late at night, when you shouldn't be out and about anyway. Only carry enough cash on your person that you can afford to lose; put the rest in the hotel safe.

That said, pickpockets are more common than muggers.

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Originally posted by static:

Only carry enough cash on your person that you can afford to lose; put the rest in the hotel safe.

And, when you're staying at a downtown hostel with no lockers or safes?

It sure makes me want to buy one of these:
http://www.pac-safe.com/www/index.php?_room=3&_action=detail&id=18

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Originally posted by Dusty Roads:
I like the LegSafe. And if someone makes you drop your pants looking for a money belt you can slide the LegSafe down with your hands along with your pants.

Blimey, how often does this happen to people?!

You haven't ever met my ex, have you?

if someone wants to dig deep down in to my money belt near my hot and sweaty privates god bless them...

see post above haha

wow, i didn't know muggers made ya strip. yet another reason to wear clean underwear....

so i knew a guy once wandering somewhere he probably shouldn't have been late at night. this group of thuggish looking fellas started to follow him, no doubt up to no good. so he started digging in the trash, like he was looking for food. they left him alone. who mugs someone who has to eat out of trash cans?

I read something the other day that may be worth sharing.

If a hotel room has wall to wall carpeting of the tack strip variety, you can pull it off the tack strip and lay bills under the carpet. Thin stacks... put the carpet back in place.

That way, no one can have a spare key to the safe.

Of all things to learn from a comedy reference book.