Posted on 01/08/2018 12:16:34 AM PST by aquila48
From her office window, Elizabeth O’Neill could see young men on scooters prowling for victims almost every day. “You’d see people waiting at bus stops staring at their phones as these lads were about to snatch them,” she said. “You’d think ‘don’t do it, put your phone away’. And then it happened to me.”
O’Neill, a charity worker, was waiting for a bus “looking at my phone, figuring out where I was going”. It was all over very quickly. “Two lads on a moped snatched it out of my hand and rode off. I felt really stupid.
“There was just the realisation ‘Oh my God, how do I get home – my card is in my phone?’ And how could I contact anyone to tell them what’s happened?”
Over the past two years, scooters and mopeds have become the vehicles of choice for mobile phone robberies, bag snatches and even acid attacks.
The increase has been dramatic. In the 12 months to June 2017, the Metropolitan police recorded 16,158 thefts by people using mopeds – more than three times as many as the 5,145 reported between July 2015 and June 2016. Violent crime rose sharply last year: the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show an 18% increase in offences against the person.
The thousands of victims include Martin Lewis, founder of MoneySavingExpert.com, while Daniel Radcliffe, the Harry Potter actor, helped a tourist whose face was slashed by muggers stealing his bag. Five people were sprayed with acid by two people on mopeds earlier this month, including a food delivery rider, Jabed Hussain, whose scooter was stolen. On Thursday, Hussain led a protest alongside drivers for Deliveroo and UberEats outside parliament demanding action. They held up a banner saying “Stop acid attacks, bike theft, motorcycle crime”.
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Meanwhile the elephant in the room...
Agree. Pesky "asians" of the Middle East variety, most likely.
That's why one must always be aware of their surroundings, peripheral awareness. Eyes in back of your head, etc. Don't pull out your wallet or wave money around in the open. Avoid being attacked in the punch-out game from a sucker punch. When outside in public, view everything as a potential threat. Well, not everything, little old white ladies can get a pass, but pesky "asians" of the M.E. variety, yes.
Think of the horror if it were SUVs committing these crimes!
Most of the countries these “asians” come from are very dependent on scooter and motorcycle use. They are very well trained and knowledgeable about these and can swoop and grab very fast.
The same in most African countries. You have to be very careful about your actions or whereabouts at all times.
Get a claw hammer, and be ready to swing it.
Well I suppose you could call them "sand teens".
“They must be dealt with severely.
Agree. Pesky “asians” of the Middle East variety, most likely.”
No, no, no! It’s the inanimate objects that must be dealt with severely. You know, mopeds, knives, acid, guns...
The “Asian lads” must be given better health care.
Way back in the 80’s , in Italy, it was Italians on mopeds doing the purse snatching . In Naples, they had it down to a science.
I agree completely.
There isn’t a lot of crime in Vietnam, at least not a lot that I have seen. Anywhere. With the exception of cell phones.
I had one snatched right out of my hand shortly after arriving. Then I started being REAL careful, and had a guy grab for my phone, knocked me down but he did NOT get that one.
Both were in middle of the day. On a somewhat busy street.
I am not surprised at this. Phones are expensive now.
Watch out.
Wow, mopeds are almost as dangerous as SUVs.... outlaw mopeds and outlaw SUVs !!! /s
Liberal: “We need gun control!”
Liberal: “We need knife control!”
Liberal: “We need moped control!”
Liberal: “We need SUV control!”
Liberal: “We need sugary soft drink control!”
Liberal: “We need government control over every aspect of your life!”
There is actually another option, a simple one. The totalitarian left rejects that option out of hand.
The Liberal approach to stopping crime, punish the people victimized by it:
>Kevin Howells, the chairman of the MCRG, said they were “shocked” by the results. “In some parking bays you’ve got 30 bikes taking up those spaces and no one’s locked their bike to the street furniture,” he said. “It’s easy pickings. Maybe there should be some legislation so that people are penalised. If you’re not going to lock your bike up, that one crime could result in 10 more crimes up the road.”
I’ve got a better idea. Give the thieves the death penalty. Give them a short trial followed by a long hanging.
The death penalty? The cops aren’t even allowed to chase them if doing so might result in injury to the criminal:
“My colleagues are sick to the back teeth of this. We want to catch criminals, but when you have two young males on a moped, one of them taking their crash helmet off, that’s the end of the chase.”
Do you believe this?? To end the chase, all the perp has to do is take his helmet off!
>“My colleagues are sick to the back teeth of this. We want to catch criminals, but when you have two young males on a moped, one of them taking their crash helmet off, that’s the end of the chase.”
>Do you believe this?? To end the chase, all the perp has to do is take his helmet off!
This is the proper way to deal with criminals on mopeds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yoUaH6wGLs
In the Navy we referred to that as “the law of gross tonnage”.
Mopeds have pedals, scooters do not.
Especially black ones with full auto - transmissions.
Notice the “look squirrel” trick of the lying MSM, citing a diverse victim, some Jabed Hussain, to silence the inconvenient fact that perpetrators are from the diversity.
I am getting sick and tired of their constant apology for the scums.
Though probably not the particular species of diversity which I suspect you have in mind. Most of the London street gangs with whom this is recently fashionable are dominated by black Afro-Caribbeans and underclass whites, rather than Asian Muslims, who by and large are not into run-of-the-mill street crime like this..
Oh, i understand who they are. That is why I put quotation marks around the word asian. Althout I do think this groups is probably more dominated by the Pakistanis, but I am not sure.
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