Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Phone snatched by two guys on a Uber Eats moped!
Hey all
It's another phone snatch story I'm afraid. But wanted to share it and warn you too as it could have been a lot worse...
At 8.40pm Tuesday evening on the Wightman Road (outside la Vina Tapas bar and Shelton Hotel), 2 guys on a moped branded with an UberEats logo, were driving erratically and doing u-turns in the road. They drove up to a pedestrian crossing where there was a woman on her phone. They grabbed the phone from her and sped off. She looked a bit shocked and asked her if she was OK. In the meantime the two skanks had turned around and were coming back towards us. They threw the phone at us, and it smashed on the ground. I took out my phone to record them, but unfortunately I didn't manage it in time. But then they circled back again, and tried to mount the pavement to attack me for recording. They told us to "Get the f*ck out of here...Walk on...etc" and sped off. It left us all pretty shaken as they were very aggressive. We then called the police and reported the whole incident. I've also emailed UberEats but doubt if they will or can do anything about it.
Be careful with your phones. There are some proper thugs about.
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Permalink Reply by Emma on
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It's totally unbelieveable that "thugs" are getting bolder and bolder. I mean as arching someone's phone and threatening people when you are driving a company vehicle! Come on!! The Police really do need to start claiming down on wha they would claim to be "low level crime" it's not OK and is just going to make London and neighbourhoods not very nice places to live. Sorry about your attack. It really is not OK that nothing will happen to the drivers. I doubt they will even be pursued.
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Permalink Reply by AndrewAW1 on
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It's more likely to be a stolen moped. A lot of these types of thefts are carried out on mopeds that are stolen, used for a short time and then ditched.
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That though had crossed my mind as well. But my partner and I remembered the driver was wearing a branded jacket that I actually thought was a Deliveroo jacket - same colours etc. I thought I was mistaken till I read yesterday that Deliveroo drivers are working for UberEats as well (according to this article http://uk.businessinsider.com/ubereats-takeaways-are-being-delivere....... "Obviously it's not practical for riders to change their uniform each time they make a delivery for a different platform. As a result, there are delivery people turning up at people's homes and offices with an UberEATS bag and a Deliveroo uniform, or vice versa.").
Maybe it was stolen, along with the jacket - its totally possible I guess.
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Permalink Reply by Alyson on
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This probably isn't connected (I'm a long way from Wightman Rd, off Philip Lane) but in the middle of last week there was a Deliveroo jacket (silver and turquoise) lying on the pavement in my street for 2 or 3 days. As noted in other threads, so much stuff gets thrown on pavement or left out to 'frecycle' you get used to it. I thought about picking it up and phoning the company but I was either homeward with bags of shopping, or on my way out. It's gone now.
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Permalink Reply by CanadianMichael on
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I filmed some last week on my way to work in Shoreditch.
They are at the beginning and end of the video:
https://youtu.be/szAAHdC0xdg
My footage is a bit underwhelming -- I didn't get the actual moment of attempted snatch which I saw happen before me.
My bike only has the cheap(er) rear-facing camera (https://cycliq.com/products/fly6) rather than the new front-facing one (https://cycliq.com/products/fly12).
I noticed they were dodgy (probably because motoring on pavement) and swung my camera around to face them a minute before they tried to snatch from a pedestrian on pavement.
We called police who showed up in an unmarked car to take a statement 10 minutes later, and while they were taking notes the thieves had circled the block and showed up again for another pass.
I was too slow turning my camera back on to get them the 2nd time.
The police tried chasing on foot but were too slow and are not allowed to chase by car after a high speed chase recently ended in death of thief. Their helicopter was grounded that day.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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The police were there and they didn't catch them ... maybe they need to get some police onto motorbikes. The ban on chasing by car is probably temporary while they re-assess their procedures (?) Otherwise, if the police can't give chase what's the point in having them out there on call-out patrol (999).
Guessing the death was the 'drone' chase in north London, they were spotted using a drone to delivery stuff to a prisoner through a prison window. Police gave chase as they escaped in their car. Car crashed, one occupant died.
Overall police services are stretched just like every other service due to servere funding cutbacks.
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