Hey, this is the Daily Overpass! My name is Eric and I make apps. Now today, I want
to tell you about how I got pick-pocketed last night.
Okay, so, it's my last full day in Hanoi. I'll leave tomorrow like at 6 a.m. I'll
catch - I have to get to the airport, so, it's gonna be an early start tomorrow to
go to Manila. And today, I was gonna go to like this really touristy place today,
but instead I cancelled that so I can just hang around and catch up on some
work and stuff like that. Not so much worried, just a little bits of pieces
here and there. So anyway, I'm gonna tell you what
happened to me last night and I'm gonna - I'm a bit embarrassed about it, so please
go easy on the comments. I was pick-pocketed last night. My iPhone
8, my new iPhone 8 was stolen. So, here's what happened. I went out for dinner
last night. It was kind of late and I was - as I was walking back, you know, foreigner,
tourist on his own, man, you know, that everyone keeps approaching you.
So, I'm walking and you know, people approach you, just can't
concentrate. No thank you, no thank you, no thank you. And like a scooter
pulls up and - I'm sorry, I just filled out the police report, so it's all fresh in
my mind. Alright, so a scooter pulls up with a man and a woman. The woman gets
off the back of it, comes over and starts you know, "Can you sexy lady..." All
this kind of stuff and she actually grabs my crotch and everything. I said,
no, no, no, thank you. And you know, I said no, no thanks. So,
she gets back on the scooter and goes away. And then I realized my phone is
missing, my iPhone. You know, because you know what it's like, you notice it right
away. You feel naked when you don't have your phone on you these days. It's like
the way I feel today. So, I actually tried to chase after the
scooter. I don't know what I was gonna do if I caught it, but I started running
down the road. But there's no way I could keep up with it. Despite all the
the morning runs and everything like that, there's no way I could catch a
scooter but I did. I was a night hot pursuit for a while, shouting and in the
end, you know, they got away. It was - I
mean, it was a bit hectic and so, I came back to the hotel room. I didn't
even like think to go to the police. I just thought
it's late at night, you know, I'm sure this kinda stuff happens
all the time. I guess I'm out. I have to go buy a new iPhone. So, I went back
to the hotel - and so, I came back here to the hotel and I called the mobile
network and got that cancelled, told that the phone was stolen and an iPhone,
went and erased my phone, erased the content, tried to find my phone but
it's offline, and all that kind of stuff. So you know, I'm actually
really relieved it was just my phone. I know it's expensive and I'm
really - it's gonna be difficult to do without it for the next couple of days,
but I'm glad it was just my phone and not my my wallet, which would have been a
lot harder to replace all the contents of my wallet and and stuff like
that. So, this morning - this morning, I was reading through my travel
insurance saying actually I'm covered for that. Then this morning, I went down
to fill in a police report and luckily the people, the hotel here are really nice.
They went down there with me to do it. They translated everything for
me, everything, you know, everything was okay. So, they're doing the police report
I hope that I'll get that so I could try to claim it on the travel insurance.
I should be able to, I mean, that's what the travel insurance is for. But you know,
I think the reason - I was, well I wasn't sure whether or not was gonna tell you
this, because I actually - this morning, I was just feeling so bad they were asking
why I didn't report it last night. And mainly because I just feel kind of just
naive, like the naive tourists. All those years working in London
where they, you know, with pickpockets and everything I've been. I have never in my
life been pick-pocketed. I've never been mugged. I mean, you know touchwood,
I've never been in a situation like that. But I've had dreams about - I
have dreams that somebody steal something from me and I'm chasing after
him so it was kind of weird that actually happened.
Well, I just felt a bit naive about the whole thing, you know, the naive tourist.
I thought, you know what, I'll just tell you, guys, anyway. Like you, guys, know
how the trip was going, but aside from that the trip is going really
well. You know, meeting with the - meeting with the developers. A lot of really nice
people. I mean, obviously a couple of bad people. I also had a taxi driver who the first
night - who took me to the hotel and then when I said I needed to go
inside to get some money, then he said, "Oh, I don't think this is the right place."
Cuz, he tried to just bring me somewhere completely different. So you know, there's
cheats and stuff like that everywhere, but it didn't go too bad. So,
when I first went to England, my first ever time in England it was at
Victoria Station. This was - I was like 22 years old. I was going over to visit
and I took a Mac flight. I was in the military, I took a Mac flight to
Frankfurt, Germany and it took the ferry, the train and the ferry to
Victoria Station and as soon as I got a the Victoria Station, I got
off with my big backpack and everything, a guy comes up to me says, "We have a
hostel. You need a hostel for tonight?" And I said, "Um, yeah, I guess." So, I don't - I
don't know where I'm staying yet and he says, "We got a van out back, just come out,
we have to some people waiting. We're about to leave here in a few
minutes." I said. "Well, can I get something to eat first?" He goes, "No, no, we're gonna
go now." I said okay and I was about to go with
the guy and then like a security person comes up goes, "Hey, is he trying to get
you out of the station?" And the guy just walks off. "Was he trying to get
you out of the station?" I said, "Yes, why?' "He's trying
to get you out of the station so he could - so he could rob you. And I was like,
"What, what, what?!" And it was my first ever - like just getting to England
and I tell you what, the next few days, I decided that I hated England. You know,
like this it was - just like everybody in England is gonna rob you
or whatever. And so, it's so easy to fall into that trap, but you know, of course, I
don't think that now. I really have a great time in England, but you
know, I'm trying to - trying to think about the same things with
Hanoi. A few, a few bad people, bad experience,
I'm so glad I wasn't hurt. So glad. It could have been - it
could have been worse. I'm glad that it was just my phone. I'm glad that
Apple puts the - wipe my phone stuff in there, so I can just clear all the data
remotely, and I don't have to worry
about all that kind of stuff. So anyway, so today's nothing about apps.
I'm sorry about that. Just let you, guys, know how things are going. Anyway, that's
it for today. I'll talk to you tomorrow, hopefully with better news.