When you want to avoid being seen, wear Hi Viz.

[snorri]

That's what this robbery suspect did, smart or stupid?.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-37858992

 

[Saluki]

I have been known to do a bit of geocaching and, in urban areas when I want to cache unseen, I wear hi-viz and carry a clip board.
So, robber was probably quite smart.

 

[TVC]

The comedian and activist Mark Thomas uses the HiVis and hard hat trick too, he says he is amazed by what people allow him to get away with by kitting up himself and his cohort like a work gang.

 

[numbnuts]

I have been known to do a bit of geocaching and, in urban areas when I want to cache unseen, I wear hi-viz and carry a clip board.
So, robber was probably quite smart.

I might try that, the amount of scary looks I get from people when looking for a cache.

 

[Andy_R]

I have been known to do a bit of geocaching and, in urban areas when I want to cache unseen, I wear hi-viz and carry a clip board.
So, robber was probably quite smart.

I do that too, especially when looking for magnetics on the back of road signs

 

[Globalti]

I once visited a Nepalese customer in hospital, while wearing a business suit. He and his wife had forgotten that it was I who had met them at Heathrow and conveyed them to the hospital but they must have known they'd seen me before so they assumed I was a doctor. The conversation was quite interesting for a minute or two until we sorted ourselves out. It made me realise that with brass neck and the right look you can get away with anything.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I once visited a Nepalese customer in hospital, while wearing a business suit.
and the right look you can get away with anything.

We seem to have lots of people masquerading as managers, all over the Hospital
Quite what they do, is beyond most of us (I've been there 20 years, & seen most faces)

 

[classic33]

Dress and act as though you've every right to be there, doing whatever, and the chances are you'll never be asked what you're doing.

 

[Smithbat]

I have been known to do a bit of geocaching and, in urban areas when I want to cache unseen, I wear hi-viz and carry a clip board.
So, robber was probably quite smart.

I do this too when caching. My Hi-Vis has Girlguiding across the back of it so looks doubly official!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

One of my mates still serving tells the story of meeting a Leading Hand who had served on HMS Vanguard, Britain's last battleship as a junior rating. This guy was given the job of taking the ship's chronometer around all the departments every day to set the various clocks. At every port of call, he would stop for a cup of tea, a biscuit and a bit of a chat. In this manner he managed to fill the entire day and every day of his three year posting onboard.

As he sat on my mate's desk, sipping tea and chomping biscuits, my mate realised the bugger was still pulling the same trick nearly thirty years later!