Robbed at lunch time

IdidIt

Totally sickened... Myself and my girlfriend were having lunch in Dublin city ( i don't want to add the name of the restaurant because it's a great place and I don't want people to think they'll get robbed there ), when a lady sat in the seat next to us. I noticed she was moving around a lot and acting a little strange so being the man I am I started hoping she would leave... So to my then relief she left without ordering anything. When herself checked her handbag about 20 minutes later her purse and mobile were nicked. First time in 7 years of living in Dublin have I ever experienced this or even heard of it happening.. Anyone else got a similar story?

sollar

Why did you rob your girlfriend?

Susie_Q

Is your username a confession?

IdidIt

Lurking on boards so long it seemed like an apt name for my first topic.. I wish I robbed her, I'd have a ladies driving license and my old phone back!

DrumSteve

Have you contacted her phone company to get the phone blocked?

callaway92

Any cameras in or around the restaurant/café?

Should be easily able to find the woman and recognize her if you asked around for clips.

IdidIt

yeah, she sorted that straight away. Worried most about her bank cards and Id.

IdidIt

Cafe doesn't have a camera but the area does and a security guard. He texted her phone a message saying they had her on camera but I'm sure the thief took out the sim card straight away.

Cill Dara Abu

IdidIt wrote: »

yeah, she sorted that straight away. Worried most about her bank cards and Id.

Ring the bank and cancel the card

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Can you PM the name of the cafe/rest? Its obviously a target for sucessful thieves. Just so I know to keep my guard up.

Dangerous Man

This sounds very feckin' familiar. I seem to recall someone else posting something like this a while ago.

Sorry for your loss though.

Actually, I went to see the Dublin-Kildare match a couple of weeks ago and some rat scum on a bicycle grabbed a guy's wallet as he walking down the street. Makes me sick.

IdidIt

benwavner wrote: »

Can you PM the name of the cafe/rest? Its obviously a target for sucessful thieves. Just so I know to keep my guard up.

I'll pm on the place but honestly believe things like this very rarely happen there. It's probably my favourite lunch spot in Dublin so I don't want it getting a bad name.

Mr. Denton

You IdidIt!

fryup

was that woman a........ahem well you know...........

roma gyspy

Lapin

I reckon the thief is a creature of habit and will more than likely return to the scene of the crime to try it again.

Keep an eye out.

Although I doubt your other half has a hope in hell of getting her things back.

IdidIt

Lapin wrote: »

I reckon the thief is a creature of habit and will more than likely return to the scene of the crime to try it again.

Keep an eye out.

Although I doubt your other half has a hope in hell of getting her things back.

Hopefully she is because I'm in there at least once a week and one of the lads working there spotted her as well. We were hoping she just took the money and phone and threw the rest in the bin, but had a quick look around ( didn't want to explore the bins too much ) without any luck.

mcmoustache

There's a lesson there:

If someone acting strangely in your personal space or in a position to steal from you, they are either going to molest you, beat you or rob you and you need to blast them with piss before they do.

This sucks OP. I hope you catch this person.

Can you tell us the area of dublin (not the exact address or restaurant) and let us know what this woman looked like?

Tipsy McSwagger

Dirty scumbag thief.

IdidIt

mcmoustache wrote: »

There's a lesson there:

If someone acting strangely in your personal space or in a position to steal from you, they are either going to molest you, beat you or rob you and you need to blast them with piss before they do.

This sucks OP. I hope you catch this person.

Can you tell us the area of dublin (not the exact address or restaurant) and let us know what this woman looked like?

I was going to use my stink glands on her but thought it might put everyone off there lunch.

It was in Dublin 2, she was a fairly normal looking lady ( apart from the moving around a bit too much ) blonde hair, jeans, red top nothing unusual about her.

Mr. Denton

fryup wrote: »

was that woman a........ahem well you know...........

roma gyspy

:mad:

It's only 99% of Roma who give the rest a bad name.

IdidIt

Forgot to say the cafe gave us our lunch on the house. Even after I insisted on paying because the theft had nothing to do with them. Great bunch in there.

Micky Dolenz

IdidIt wrote: »

I was going to use my stink glands on her but thought it might put everyone off there lunch.

It was in Dublin 2, she was a fairly normal looking lady ( apart from the moving around a bit too much ) blonde hair, jeans, red top nothing unusual about her.

Was she hot?

IdidIt

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Was she hot?

Na, I would of noticed her nicking the stuff if she was

fryup

fryup wrote: »

was that woman a........ahem well you know...........

roma gyspy

IdidIt wrote: »

I was going to use my stink glands on her but thought it might put everyone off there lunch.

It was in Dublin 2, she was a fairly normal looking lady ( apart from the moving around a bit too much ) blonde hair, jeans, red top nothing unusual about her.

i take it she wasn't a roma gypsy then:cool:

slap on my hand for that!

jive

fryup wrote: »

was that woman a........ahem well you know...........

roma gyspy

god damn gyspies

Mr. Denton

fryup wrote: »

i take it she wasn't a roma gypsy then:cool:

slap on my hand for that!

Has he specified if the woman had a moustache? We can't rule out Roma involvement until that's mentioned.

Chuck Stone

fryup wrote: »

was that woman a........ahem well you know...........

roma gyspy

Ah yes, the old I'm-going-to-go-robbing-looking-like-a-Roma-Gypsy-Woman because, you know, targets would never suspect a Roma Gypsy woman fidgeting next to a handbag of doing anything untoward.



Fuck me - the lack of logical thought in some folk.

Monty Burnz

IdidIt wrote: »

blonde hair, jeans, red top nothing unusual about her.

Blonde hair, blue jeans? I think I may have a suspect for you. No mention of a red top though...

CorkMan

A cousin of mine got her handbag stolen before while she out. I am not sure whether it was a bar or café, but definitely one of the 2. The culprit was spotted on camera doing it, hopefully this thing will get caught.

Maybe keep an eye out for her trying to get some heroin?

kingtut

OP will you please tell us the name of the place? If it is somewhere I go I'll still go there but I'll be keeping an eye out. Chances are she does this a lot so you would be helping us a lot by telling us where it happened!

Cypher_sounds

How did she manage to rob stuff out of your girlfriends handbag while ye were sitting down in a restaurant??

Did ye go for a quickie in the jacks and leave the handbag unattended, was that it?

kylith

Cypher_sounds wrote: »

How did she manage to rob stuff out of your girlfriends handbag while ye were sitting down in a restaurant??

Did ye go for a quickie in the jacks and leave the handbag unattended, was that it?

Lots of women leave their handbag on the ground under their chair when they're in a restaurant. All a thief has to do is "accidentally" drop their fork then reach into the handbag when they bend down to retrieve the fork.

Monty Burnz

kylith wrote: »

All a thief has to do is "accidentally" drop their fork then reach into the handbag when they bend down to retrieve the fork.

OP, I think I may have identified another suspect.

Kevin Duffy

IdidIt wrote: »

It was in Dublin 2, she was a fairly normal looking lady ( apart from the moving around a bit too much ) blonde hair, jeans, red top nothing unusual about her.

Have you any idea how much you've disappointed some of the people on here?

Toby Take a Bow

kylith wrote: »

Lots of women leave their handbag on the ground under their chair when they're in a restaurant. All a thief has to do is "accidentally" drop their fork then reach into the handbag when they bend down to retrieve the fork.

I was in Insomnia on Jervis (last year) eating my lunch on those tiny tables, and because it was packed, there was a woman sitting directly opposite me. Strange woman walks in, doesn't order anything, waits for the seat beside us to become free, sits down and starts 'subtly' trying to move the woman's bag from under the table under her. After she caught me staring at her, I told the woman opposite me that she shouldn't leave her bag there, as there may be THIEVES about. Woman left sharpish.

The failed thief was not a Roma gypsy. This will probably disappoint the vast majority of people commenting on this thread.

theboss80

Sorry to hear she had her stuff taken.

On the plus side though NEW PHONE TO PLAY WITH :D:D:D

Sonnenblumen

a few years back myself and the OH decided to have a quickie (DRINK:D) in a quietish small well known city centre pub after sat shopping before heading home. A stranger entered and got chatting to us, sat down at our table, and left after 15-20 mins. It was only when we decided to head on after about an hour, that we realised her purse had been taken from one of the bags.

A real bummer experience yet it was some stroke to do it and have never figured out how it was done.

I know friends have had similar experiences especially around Grafton & Baggot street area.

ReReginald

fryup wrote: »

was that woman a........ahem well you know...........

roma gyspy

reminds me of vincent brown for some reason

was that woman a ....pause....vincent eyes... roma gypsy vincent smirk.
moving on to tomorrows headlines.

scopper

Was this near Temple Bar? The exact same thing happened to me and my gf in The Foggy. Middle aged women stood beside us for a sec, I was suspicious, but she seemed to be texting. Turned around she was gone and the bag too. Everything in it including tickets to see Dylan Moran

Never got a thing back. The Guards said they had a good idea who it might be and that she has quite the reputation for it, but she seems to know how to avoid cameras. Bummer indeed.

scopper

Cypher_sounds wrote: »

How did she manage to rob stuff out of your girlfriends handbag while ye were sitting down in a restaurant??

You only need be distracted for a second or two for a proper criminal to relieve you of your possessions. Can happen to anyone.

ordinary_girl

IdidIt wrote: »

It was in Dublin 2, she was a fairly normal looking lady ( apart from the moving around a bit too much ) blonde hair, jeans, red top nothing unusual about her.

You've just described me to a tee, clothes and everything. I'll be lynched when I go out tomorrow :mad: Haha, nah but I do hope your girlfriend gets her stuff back. A girl I know left her handbag on the back of a buggy for a second and it was snatched. Sometimes the human race just pis.ses me off so much :mad:

Posy

Similar thing happened to me before in an internet cafe on O'Connell St, Dublin.
Had my handbag on the floor. (like an idiot)
Fella sat down at the computer beside me, obviously pretending to use the PC. Acting a bit strange/fidgety but I was on the internet and didn't really take much notice.
Then he just got up and strolled off. Needless to say, when I looked down my bag was gone.

The internet cafe didn't even have a working CCTV, I was SO annoyed.
The place where the OP's girlfriend was robbed should be named and shamed- not having CCTV in this day and age is ridiculous.

And naturally, I learned the lesson that you DON'T leave your handbag on the floor or hanging over the back of a chair.

Red Hand

You wouldn't get robbed in some coffee shops. The clientele get really annoyed if someone takes their caffeine hit and bagel food.

murrayp4

IdidIt wrote: »

He texted her phone a message saying they had her on camera but I'm sure the thief took out the sim card straight away.

..you're assuming the thief can read..

kylith

Monty Burnz wrote: »

OP, I think I may have identified another suspect.

It's a fair cop

vampire of kilmainham

IdidIt wrote: »

Totally sickened... Myself and my girlfriend were having lunch in Dublin city ( i don't want to add the name of the restaurant because it's a great place and I don't want people to think they'll get robbed there ), when a lady sat in the seat next to us. I noticed she was moving around a lot and acting a little strange so being the man I am I started hoping she would leave... So to my then relief she left without ordering anything. When herself checked her handbag about 20 minutes later her purse and mobile were nicked. First time in 7 years of living in Dublin have I ever experienced this or even heard of it happening.. Anyone else got a similar story?

i bet her handbag was on the floor this kind of thing happens all the time and it happens everywhere ya have to watch everything all the time now

gubbie

I've travelled quite a fair amount but the only place I've ever been robbed was in Dublin. It was on a bus, I was getting off and there was a guy behind me who fell into me as I was getting off. He ran off as soon as I got off and sensing something was wrong I checked my bag. And my purse was gone.

Another time I was in a pub with some Dublin friends and an Australian friend. It was one up the top of O'Connell Street. A man sat down beside my Australian friend and slowly starting putting his hand into her bag which was lying beside her. One of the lads noticed and he slowly got up and left as if nothing had happened.

Dam Dublin scumbags!

Latchy

Relative of mine use to work for for Schuh and they don't ( or didn't ) have security guards in their stores so the oppurtuinist thieves , because they know women will place their bags on floor ,will sit beside or behind women while they try on a pair of shoes .It only takes a second or two for you to be distracted and their gone with your purse or the whole bag so peoples , be on your gaurd with your bags .

It's up to individuals to look after their bags and stuff because no staff at any store , restaurant or shop are not going to tell people the place is a magnet for theives and pickpockets ,especially at a busy time like christmas. You do see some signs in some uk citys saying '' please look after your posessions ,pickpockets operate in this area '' .

Hannibal Smith

IdidIt wrote: »

Totally sickened... Myself and my girlfriend were having lunch in Dublin city ( i don't want to add the name of the restaurant because it's a great place and I don't want people to think they'll get robbed there ), when a lady sat in the seat next to us. I noticed she was moving around a lot and acting a little strange so being the man I am I started hoping she would leave... So to my then relief she left without ordering anything. When herself checked her handbag about 20 minutes later her purse and mobile were nicked. First time in 7 years of living in Dublin have I ever experienced this or even heard of it happening.. Anyone else got a similar story?

I've been robbed so many times in Dublin. It once happened when i was a student walking down the street...this girl put her hand into my jacket pocket and it was only afterwards I realised she'd knicked my last fiver :eek:

Another time I was in mcdonalds, this girl sat at the table behind me and turned around and asked me what time it was, as I looked at my watch she nicked my purse out of my jacket pocket (same jacket as in the first incident).

My bag has been stolen in niteclubs so many times, most memorable one was in Tramco.

Also a friend of mine had her mobile stolen from her hand. This guy pulled up on a bike, asked her the time, she was texting at the time, looked at her phone for the clock, he snatched it from her hand and fled off :eek:


Oh oh oh! I forgot about the time my purse was stolen from my bag on the Luas, about 2 years ago, Christmas time, Luas was packed...the guy stuck his hand in my bag and got off at the next stop. Worst thing was while the tram was moving I accidently stood on his toe and apologised...all the while he's rooting around in my bag

Luxie

IdidIt wrote: »

Totally sickened... Myself and my girlfriend were having lunch in Dublin city ( i don't want to add the name of the restaurant because it's a great place and I don't want people to think they'll get robbed there ), when a lady sat in the seat next to us. I noticed she was moving around a lot and acting a little strange so being the man I am I started hoping she would leave... So to my then relief she left without ordering anything. When herself checked her handbag about 20 minutes later her purse and mobile were nicked. First time in 7 years of living in Dublin have I ever experienced this or even heard of it happening.. Anyone else got a similar story?

Yeah, I had my bag nicked in a pub in London. Weird thing was, when me and my friend went to the pub after work, it was practically empty apart from a crowd at the back (we were sort of in the middle of the pub).

I've no idea how someone got to the bag (given how empty the place was) without me noticing.

However, the following day, my bank called me to say my bag had been found (under a car), the car owner found the bag, saw my bank card (they took card, cash, mobile and makeup only), and called the bank. So that was nice.

ohnelly

I was on the train today when a woman and two kids got on. As the 2nd little girl walked past she took some coins off the table, I grabbed her arm and told her to put it back! She did eventually but later walked up and down to see if there was anything else she could take!

Most petty thieves are opportunist, it's better to be paranoid than complacent!