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Scooter bike thieves

Yesterday morning at about 8.45am I was crossing Green Lanes at the junction with Umfreville Road as a scooter came down past the Arena centre. The passenger seemed to gesture in my direction. I had my phone in my hand but wasn't on the phone and when I saw they were wearing masks, I knew immediately what their plan was. As I reached the pavement on the other side, they did a u-turn to stop in front of me but I had already put my phone behind my back and backed myself against the shop front and was shaking my head at them to say "not this time boys". When they saw this, they drove away and I saw that the reg plate on the bike had been covered. So just another warning to.people to be aware of what's around you if you use your phone in the street.

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Permalink Reply by Rob H on July 26, 2017 at 16:49

Well done to you.

It's about time the cops did something about this, surely they could have some undercovers walking around with phones out for view to bait them?

Permalink Reply by John McMullan on July 26, 2017 at 17:41

They don't go for big strong men though... a few years ago when there were some boys taking on women in the passage it was only with the help of a very brave female undercover officer that they were nicked.

And isn't it obvious that traffic laws are not being enforced? Can't we just stop and search anyone on a moped with a pillion passenger?

Permalink Reply by Rob H on July 27, 2017 at 13:17

I wouldn't be using big strong men as bait! Isn't that a bit obvious that he's a copper holding a phone about!

Permalink Reply by EyeSpy on July 26, 2017 at 21:51

It's a bit too much like hard work for them. Like waiting 48 hours before calling case closed on all motorbike thefts, even when presented with CCTV evidence of the theft.

Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on July 26, 2017 at 18:50

To me the solution is obvious. Lads on mopeds hate closed gates and double-locked front doors. I leave my phone in the hallway. So far it's worked.

Permalink Reply by Antoinette on July 26, 2017 at 22:23
Kind of defeats the object of it being a mobile phone if you don't take it out of the house
Permalink Reply by John McMullan on July 27, 2017 at 9:31

Permalink Reply by Antoinette on July 27, 2017 at 13:16

Derrrrr

Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on July 27, 2017 at 13:42

Yes Antoinette, my iPhone7 insisted on my getting it an Immobility Allowance. It's also particularly allergic to Harringay's particulates so, being a reasonably smart phone, it objects to my flashing it around on my occasional Ladder rambles.  

Permalink Reply by Antoinette on July 27, 2017 at 13:51
Ludicrous and irrelevant nonsense that brings nothing to the discussion at hand. It may amuse you....
Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on July 27, 2017 at 16:52

Antoinette, you are rapidly becoming the joke here. As I may have mentioned before, for the past decade or two I have found buggers and buggeresses with their heads in their smart phones a much greater problem than masked or helmeted guys on mopeds. I see no purpose in adding to their number. In fact a few smarter guys on faster mopeds might greatly help to solve the mobile blight around these local pavements.

Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on July 27, 2017 at 13:42

Ta, John.

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