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I just thought I'd tell you guys something. I was walking home from a night out last night. I was walking down quite a busy road, with taxis flying up and down all the time and a busy pub opposite. I was texting my mate on my phone, then these 2 youths - one with a knife - just snatched my phone and ran off up a side street. A nearly brand new Samsung D500, I'm absolutely gutted.
Also, the sim card is a contract sim I've had for years, so it's got loads of numbers on. Now I've lost them all .

I'm absolutely gutted. Youths today aren't bothered it seems. A busy road, opposite a busy pub on a Saturday night and they'll still rob you blind.

What pisses me off, is that my new £350 Samsung D500 will proably be sold for £50 to pay for some smackheads next hit.

Absolutely gutted.

 

Barmy, that's really rough. I'd be gutted too. I have no idea what a Samsung D500 is but it sounds pretty flash (much flasher than mine, anyway)

But I don't think it's a sign of the times. People have been robbed on the streets for centuries. I refuse to believe that it's any more dangerous today than it was 10, 20, or 50 years ago.

 

Cutting hands off comes to mind.

 

Well, I rang the police and got a crime reference number. Hopefully, Vodafone might send me a new one.

If only I had a way of catching them, Chev.

Next time I'm getting a taxi, believe.

 

That sucks, but an easy target, you should know better though man. I wouldn't have walked home on my own if I could help it.

 

Hmm ... Chavs ...

Can't stand them. They can't speak properly, Can't think properly, Can't even fight properly and I absolutely detest them. A Waste of space.

As you can guess, I'm not exactly on the best terms with most people that are, well, chavs lol

I'm surprised that they even have the intelligence to speak somewhat coherantly.

I'll be quiet now before I begin ranting

 

Heh, pretty daring of them. Being robbed is never fun, of course, but for them to risk being smashed to face and taken off by a police for prosecution... Well, very daring. In that situation I would had looked for the nearest brick and asked for some of those pubbers to come with me for some old fashioned punishment.

 

Losing the SIM card is the worst part. All the numbers - gone. I should know, I lost mine twice!

 

I would have thought that almost being beaten senseless in the street (which could have happened if they'd been in a different mood) would have been the worst part.

 

Kids these days are stupid. Period.

When I go out late in a neighborhood that I don't know, I always pack a knife. If someone tries anything nasty with me, I'll return the favor.

 

Phone snatching is prevalent here as well. That's why people here don't take out their phones just anywhere. You can try having the phone blocked so no one can use it. I'm not sure how it's done. You can ask your provider. One creative guy sent a message to his phone saying he won a million bucks in a contest. All he had to do to claim it was to show the message when he got to the company's office. He showed up and was promptly arrested.

 

Isn't there a number you can use to immobilise the phone?

 

The sim card, yeah. But then they will take the sim card out and sell the phone without it. We used to have such petty muggers here who would take the card out and give it to you when taking the phone.

The mighty problem with chavs and other such svoloch is the so called stressless upbringing. No spanking, no prohibitions, being tolerant of the child's differing "views" and so on. If you don't put the kids in line, they won't do the job for you. The result is people being completely unable to restrict themselves in any way or deliver whatever they are supposed to. They can't obey the law, they can't keep a promise, they can't stay faithful in a relationship... et cetera et cetera. That's one thing, being violent is another. Of course. But physical strength or even illusion of it (such as a knife) fills the gap.

 

Sorry to hear that Barmy, these chav/spide bastards are everywhere. If only the government would have more police officers at home, rather than have people fight for an unjust war...

@Chev, I can see your point, but people make their own decisions, so its not just the parents fault, but having said that, a good slap is in order sometimes.

 

My mate got mugged when he was out getting his dinner for him and his missus, the really crazy thing was that it was the dinner they wanted! Two chavs mugged my mate for a simple curry! Madness!

 

Well, everywhere is the same: at my job there were 3 people robed last week, one of them the movile, the other his wallet (while he was waiting the subway and putting his ticket in it) and the other her bag; the problem here is that this kind of thieves are always the same: kids from 12 to 16 and they are all from Rumania, Bosnia and all those countries around, they have no legal spanish identification and they can't be arrested because they are too young; spanish kids don't go around stealing, here in Catalonia we have this kids pretending to be Catalonian, not Spaniards or like the kids from Euskadi pretending to be Euskadian not Spanish (those from ETA), so they go around fighting, crashing cars with licence plate with the Spain symbol, etc.; we also have Latin kids, they fight their own fight between them and also stealing and beating people on the metro stations (one of the 'conflict point' is one block from my home); finally, there are those kids that get drunk and smoke drugs, and if you pass close to them and just look at them, they ask you money and if you don't have you better run as fast as you can because they chase you and steal you clothes and shoes.
What police do? Well, they say that there's nothing they can do because they are too young to be in jail, so they can kill (7 killed this year) and they get nothing but a year at some correctional and that's all.
I forgot to mention: my girfriend was robbed by a kid 2 days ago, it was 7:20 PM, daytime, 20 mts from home, she was coming back home and 3 kids that smoke hachis in the park down our building everyday grabbed her bag and got away, police said that they'll do the best they can but they can't promise anything.

 

I hope you actually know how to use that weapon, or you're going to end up a hell of a lot worse off than you would've been otherwise.

Er...how old are these killers, exactly? If they're over, like, 10, that's absolutely insane.

 

I don't want to hijack this thread, but I don't want to leave this uncommented:

I think that most sociologists agree that violence is nurtured in violent surroundings. People who have been beaten by their parents tend to beat their own children. People who have been abused tend to become molesters themselves. Teens who experienced violence from others tend to deal violence themselves. chevalier's plan will worsen the situation, plain and simple.

Apart from that - being robbed is not only difficult in terms of losing money and stuff; it's extremely humiliating as well, right? Feeling helpless, impotent. It's sad, Barmy Army.

 

No, I meant the whole mobile phone.

http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/stolengoods5.htm

You have to know the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) handset number, have to admit, I don't know mine.

Edit: (But I do now)

Do this folks, it will mean the end of mobile phone thefts.

 

As a parent I can tell you that there is a world of difference betweeen a spanking and beating your children

I'm with Chev on this one. Many parents do not hold their "precious darlings" accountable for anything.