Urban (or Traveling) Geek as Mugger Magnet

There’s an interesting discussion thread on Slashdot about how geeks laden with expensive devices avoid being robbed. This topic comes a little late for South Africa, where I was carrying around a digital camera, iPod and 12″ PowerBook everywhere I went. It was all in an innocent-looking backpack, though, and I was careful where I took out the laptop. Still, it gives you pause to consider that you’re hauling around CAN $3000 worth of stuff in a crime-ridden country.