Originally Posted by omon

i know i'll get flamed for it, but yes it is ok, imo
choped hand is a very good visual example of what will happen if you steal, better than jail. and after you loose one hand, there is a very slim chance you will steal again, for obvious reasons.

our turkish friends can tell you, they used to chop off theefs hand, now what are the chances, of your stuff getting stolen in turkish market? from personal experiense i'd say very slim, i was there in 92, i left my bag in a store(a tent more like it), the store owner or worker ran after me, dragged me back to the store, i had no idea what he wanted, luckely some other russian there explained the situation, so i came back to the tent, and he returned my bag, he didn,t take it and run after me to give it back, but brought me back to the store. sadly russians brought negative things to turk markets.