Mind your mp3 player while walking around (esp. in Smithfield)

sf80 · 13-10-2011 9:29am #1

I saw three guys (teenagers, hoodies, usual suspects) checking out a girl on Bow street yesterday evening, one of them broke off and started following her down Friary avenue. I drove ahead of them, got off my bike and walked back towards her just as the guy was about to snatch her ipod.

I shouted at him and he did a runner, but the Guards say there've been a quite few robberies in the area lately. They come up behind you or make the grab when they're cycling past you. They've no fear, this was at 6 and there were plenty of people about.

Be careful when you're going through the playlists or sending texts on the street :mad:

_blank_ · 13-10-2011 9:45am

Attempted snatching? Really?

mor eliek attempted robbery, no need to be so sensationalist about it.

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sf80 · 13-10-2011 9:48am

That's a bit much, someone was attempting to snatch something from someones hand, rather than a threat of violence and 'give me your ipod'. It relates to anywhere, but this is specifically in relation to this happening in the Smithfield area lately.

_blank_ · 13-10-2011 9:50am

A "snatching" usually relates to someone taking a child, there was no attempted abduction in this instance.

sf80 · 13-10-2011 9:53am

Not as I understand it

1. The act of snatching; a quick grasp or grab.
2. A brief period of time: "At the end we preferred to travel all night,/Sleeping in snatches" (T.S. Eliot).
3. A small amount; a bit or fragment: a snatch of dialogue.
4. Slang A kidnapping.

_blank_ · 13-10-2011 10:04am

See number 4 there, that's what most people reading the original thread title will have seen.

sf80 · 13-10-2011 10:20am

Des wrote: »

See number 4 there, that's what most people reading the original thread title will have seen.

I believe that is incorrect.

_blank_ · 13-10-2011 10:22am

ok

RandolphEsq · 13-10-2011 10:47am

Get a room you two.

Dr. Jonathan Crane · 17-10-2011 5:24pm

Think there should be less complaining about the title (I certainly didn't think it was a kidnapping) and more props given to OP for helping someone out.

RandolphEsq · 18-10-2011 4:29am

Des wrote: »

Attempted snatching? Really?

mor eliek attempted robbery, no need to be so sensationalist about it.

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Spell properly, and then use that argument.

spurious · 18-10-2011 6:24am

There's a children's court up there, so you have a select clientele in the area already.

Mind your mp3 player while walking around (esp. in Smithfield)

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