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WTTG/FOX 5's John Henrehan says that Metro Transit Police are bracing themselves for a winter crime season populated by thieves who steal people's expensive coats, especially ones made by The North Face.
The assistant chief of the agency, Jeff Telinski, told the transit agency's board of directors on Thursday that rail systems on the West Coast are reporting an increase in coat robberies. Coats manufactured by North Face are popular targets.
Apparently North Face coats became trendy when I wasn't looking? And here I thought they were the exclusive province of people who live in areas that are so cold that you just can't be bothered to care that you look like the Michelin Man. In any event, Henrehan reports that Transit Police are planning some North Face stings in an effort to nab any potential coat snatchers here in D.C. Still, if say, you moved here from Chicago and brought your North Face with you, watch your back this winter.
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Hopefully they'll do some sting operations to find the criminals, like they do with bike thieves.
How does someone not know that North Face is trendy? Go to PG County in January.
I wouldn't ever wear such a coat because they look goofy and even more so on someone like myself who isn't young.
North Face is for posers.
I liked this movie better when it had pods in the basement and starred Donald Sutherland.
Now I'm glad that I'm cheap and always opt for Columbia jackets instead
I feel much safer knowing that the only reason anyone would shoot me in my REO Speedwagon "Can't Stop Rockin" satin tour jacket is because I have $h!tty taste in music.
marmot for me all the way.
I would say that North Face jackets have been wildly popular since the early 90's. They replaced Raider's Jackets and Carhart as THE street wear sometime around then and have been stolen like mad ever since.
You did take note that the North Face jacket you linked to was the "Women's Metropolis Jacket", no?
ride metro naked.
Go to basically any college campus in the Northeast when it's below, oh, 55 degrees or so. North Face jackets and fleeces are basically a uniform. Especially on girls who wear the fleeces with Uggs and tights and make me want to shoot myself.
I can picture 'em naked no matter what they're wearing.
Or if they're brewing a pot of coffee
Depending on the school (or the sorority), you might not want to.
have you never stepped foot on a college campus? northface + uggs = sorority uniform. it's not limited to any one region, though I do believe girls from jersey brought it to my midwestern university..
As someone who actually DID move here from Chicago and owns a North Face jacket: It never comes out of the closet. In 5 years here, it's come out once--for the inauguration this year. And even that was more a response to being outside for 5 hours than the actual cold.
RE: downtown rez
North Face is for posers.
Who even says 'posers' anymore? Oh wait, you do.
it's p-o-s-e-u-r
if you're gonna flame, bring your game...or, ya know, don't flame at all
First Triple Fat Goose, then Avirex, now this. Come on - I'm sure I'm missing a few brands in between, but high-end jacket theft is about as normal here as the cherry blossoms flowering every spring or the Fort Reno shows being in peril of ending.
Northface = bulky = taking up space = physical representation of power, especially in a crowded public area. Same as talking louder than the people around you and sitting sprawled across two seats.
Soc majors are usually taught this using the example of the differences in male/female behavior and dress. Women are taught to wear tight-fitting clothing, cross their legs, hold their elbows next to their bodies, speak more softly, and generally make themselves small. Men's clothing is baggier in part to present a larger profile, they sit with their legs splayed out, many of them talk louder... you get the picture.
But it doesn't have to just be gender; if a group of people are trying to show their power/dominance in a space, one way to do it is to dress "bigger."
/sociology class flashback.
I hate it when guys sit w/ there legs gapped open. I'm small so I'm definitely buying the Metropolis parka. I wonder if BCBS will cover it.
Thank goodness I can walk around the streets in my shiny satin Starter jacket and not feel threatened.
The best way to combat this would be to figure out how to lace North Face jackets with something lethal that eliminates the thief who steals it. Like country music, perhaps.
I am calling bullshit on this. This happens every couple of years-a rumor gets started about a new target for criminals-usually around a specific brand (iPods, Nikes, etc.) and police departments all start panicking.
The best example of this law enforcement "telephone" game was the Hello Kitty AK 47. Someone photoshopped a pink gun with Hello Kitty logos. It got a lot play online. Before you knew it, police departments were issuing warnings to each other that the "HK-47" had become the preferred gun of gangs (huh?).
The footnote is that after all the press, someone actually made a real one!!/a>
I believe this is related to the recently renewed poplarity of "jenkem" as a recreational narcotic. It would go a long way towards explaining the smell on the Metro.
You very well could be right. This does have all the earmarks of a Fear-The-Negro urban legend. Also, if you are wearing your North Face jacket and pass a car in the night with its high beams on, don't flash your high beams back. It could totally be a Bloods initiation ceremony, born in the darkest corners of Africa, where they turn around a shoot white people.
Oh but wait... Mitchell & Ness are trying to bring them back!
The North Face is trash....their jackets are poorly engineered and their environmental record is atrocious. The only reason they've sky rocketed into popularity is because of being caught up in a lucky trend, NOT because of producing quality goods. Real women and men wear Patagonia. Period.
mmmkay..way to take this article to a whole 'nother, completely irrelevant level.
Ok, I didn't think I had to spell it out since my point was implied rather than stated, but let me go ahead and do that for you:
The only reason that street kids are robbing everyone for their North Face jackets is because it has become a huuuuge fad for no particular reason at all. There is no high-quality involved. Nike is probably the best example of this -- aside to their high-end running shoes, everything else they make is very poorly made, with very little oversight. And yet people are getting robbed left and right for the crappy Air Jordans.
The second part of my comment wasn't so much of a plug for Patagonia as it was just plain truth. If one fears for their safety and yet wants a product that wont fall apart on them, get a Patagonia jacket or something comparable.
I agree completely, but then again, nobody ever accused these dumb little shits of having good taste.
Touché.
Agree, Yonas.
Bonus- When your Patagonia wears out, you can exchange it for a new one. My latest jacket was 50% off and will work well for years.
I hear trucker hats and ironic t-shirts are the next big thing.
And Creed
And sleeve tattoos and bushy beards. And fixed-gear bicycles.
Sommer, you are rapidly losing touch with society. Earlier this week you didn't or pretended not to know what "ghetto" means and now you don't know about North Face's popularity. Maybe you need to diversify your staff...or yourself.
Who wrote this article? Are they slow? North Face jackets have been targeted for thefts for as far back as I can remember. Anytime you see kids wearing coats, shoes, etc. that costs over $200, you can pretty much assume you'd get robbed for wearing one.
Who wrote this article? Are they slow?
it's posted in the "by-line"
By Sommer Mathis in News on October 23, 2009 10:35 AM
who's the slow one? I'm gonna say it twice in this thread: if you're gonna flame, (for f**ksakes) bring your gaaaaammmmmmeeee...or listen to what your mom told you (side note: nice lady actually...and under the sheets, hot damn!)
O NO YO DI'INT! YO MOMMA FIGHT!
Yo momma so dumb she got fired from a blowjob.
This is not new. A kid was shot in front of my house four years ago walking to Eastern High School for his North Face jacket. MPD was thoroughly unsurprised about the motive then. I had the impression that it was pretty common.
And I would have to say that a casual glance out my window at the stream of DCPS kids coming and going indicates that North Face jackets are very much in right now. Or at least with that subset that isn't in school at 11:49 in the morning.
And they still took the jacket even though it had a hole in it?
Are you kidding? A North Face with blood on it? That's some straight-up gansta $h!t, yo. That's better than Timberlands with bulletholes in them. Bi**hes be THROWIN pu$$y at you.
As long as the hole didn't mess up the oversized logo, why not?
No, the jacket wasn't hit. Kid got hit running away from the thieves and was fine. Wasn't going to sit down anytime soon, though.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I present Theory #101 for why kids wear baggy jeans!
(to protect their couture denim case they get shot in the ass while running from the North Face Jacket Bandit!)
Story is a little stale. Should we watch out for our Air Jordans too?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42198-2005Mar16.htmlNorth Face jackets are being stolen?! who knew?! next thing you're gonna tell me is kids are sporting timberlands and wearing their jeans down around their knees. here's an exclusive for ya: the kids are watchin' these things on tee-vee called rap videos. and some of them got the crazy notion that they need to have the same clothing as these rappers and they will do anything to get these items of clothing. including bustin' a cap in yo ass.
Are they stealing all North Face jackets? I mean, mine is sky blue, surely no thug is gonna come up and take it, right? I can wear that without fear, right? RIGHT?!?
As everyone else has noted, this is very old news. Ask any cop in DC and he/she will tell you you are an idiot if you wear North Face on the streets of DC. It's like literally painting a target on your back, as often the NF logo is on the back of the jacket, giving someone walking up unseen behind you a target way before you ever see him.
Instead of wearing a North Face jacket, sport around in a Washington Redskins one. No one will touch it!!
Get back in the hoopty, Liz. And gimme that gold lamé trenchcoat else I CUT YOU!
The problem with wearing a Redskins gear is that it makes it impossible to score.
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As a life long resident of this area... the stealing of the new IT item happens evertime there is a new IT item... From Tripple Fat Goose, to Super Timbs,to Starter jackets/coats to leather coats, to Nike boots to Ipods.... And one thing is for certain, as sure as there is a new IT item, there will be people who steal a few, and The press and police will over react. Putting way to much time and effort into something so small and not that common. Camrys' show up on the top ten most stolen list year after year, should Camry owners be watching their backs too. Maybe they should just stop making them...lol. There are much bigger issues going on in the world of crime than this. PS I never buy anything teenager want.... to keep out of this RING OF CRIME...lol.
Do you think I am safe in my Members Only jacket?
My grandfather passed away last year, and when we were visiting my grandmother this summer she encouraged us all to find items among his clothing that we might use. Among other items, I picked up a couple of 80's-looking MO jackets in nearly perfect condition, but now I'm kind of hesitant to wear them. The main problem is that I'm old enough that most people will probably think I'm wearing the things completely un-ironically and have just been keeping them in really good shape for the last 20+ years . . .
I think you are safe Nate and it would be nice to wear something of your grandfather's.
I must be asking to get Facejacked®. I love my NFs because they actually work and look badass. I have a 600 fill that's great walking to the Metro. Once inside I begin to sweat and have the urge to hurl all over the platform. Because they have a built in ipod pocket, I can heave to the beat.