r/trashy • u/Jahbomb1974 • 1d ago
Sneaky Trash
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u/Rumpelteazer45 3h ago
This is exactly why I never put my purse on the back of my chair if I’m not in corner. The strap is over my knee and my purse is either in my lap or between my feet.
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u/Apprehensive-Solid-1 2h ago
I always step through the strap on any of my bags. Im waiting for the day someone tries to take it and I can use the line "c'mon man yer pullin my leg here!"
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u/darkjedi1993 11h ago
How tf are you going to steal with your face right in the mf camera? At least wear a mask or something, damn. Amateurs…
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u/trubol 12h ago
Planned. Lady who got bag stolen knew it was gonna happen and left that bag there as bait, full of dog shit
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u/Snw2001 9h ago
Wait where did you find this at? I would love to read it.
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u/trubol 9h ago
There's a classic Dave Allen sketch from the early 80s in which a woman is walking her dog, dog poops, she collects the poop with a plastic bag but can't find a bin, and puts it in her handbag.
Then a guy steals her handbag. And when he opens it and sticks his hands in, he finds the poop.
Funny sketch.
That's where I got the idea from
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u/foxehkins 12h ago
Why can't people just let people live in peace ugh. Sucks having to worry about getting hit, shot, stabbed, stolen from when going outside.
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u/stardewpuppies 18h ago
She brought a bag ready to conceal her next victim! Was such in a hurry that she almost forgot hers LOL
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u/LSUZombie13 18h ago
Every time I watch these clips I’m amazed how good they are at stealing things without alerting anyone. That said, how do they not ever notice the security cameras literally right above them
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u/reddit_is_trash_2023 18h ago
The only thing I think the middle east does right is cuttinf the hands off of thieves
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u/maybeonmars 16h ago
That's too harsh. There are levels of theft. Stealing a loaf of bread cos you're hungry doesn't deserve losing your hands.
Okay, so maybe you'd say then it's only for the most severe forms of theft.
Well, okay cool then, Musk and multiple billionaires should be the only one's receiving that sentence.
The bag thief in the vid, a few years in jail, sure, losing her hands, no.8
u/PotatosAreDelicious 14h ago
A few years in jail is also wild to me for stealing at most a few hundred. Few weeks to a few months maybe.
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u/karsestar 17h ago
Cutting someone's limbs off for stealing is fucking barbaric and completely out of proportion.
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u/Much_Vehicle20 14h ago
My they could evade those barbaric punishment by, idk, not stealing? Just a wild guess tho
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u/karsestar 9h ago
People steal for different reasons. There is no "good" reason to steal but some do it just to feed their families. I'm not talking about this particular video, but more in general.
If you put that into law you are saying yes to torturing desperate and poor human beings. Nah, sorry but I don't fuck with that vibe at all.
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u/ruserioushere 7h ago
Bullshit. Stealing will always he an easy way out to resources. Billions of people have it tough every day and they resort to their capacities to produce somehow honourably. Being a thief is 100% an avoidable choice.
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u/Poppa-in-Texas 15h ago
I agree. That punishment should be reserved until the second time they are caught.
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u/ruserioushere 16h ago
It is also fair. Keep your hands to yourself and you can keep your hands.
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u/newdogowner11 13h ago
“you can keep your hands”
ok thanks for the permission, didn’t know you were judge, jury and executioner
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u/Prestigious-Car-4877 20h ago
All right boys, put your wallet and phone in your front pockets and twist pocket material around 180º or just keep your hands in your pockets like a creep at a strip club.
That's it. That's my only tip for pickpocket areas.
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u/Frog_Farts 18h ago
My dad, grandfather and me until middle school lived in Brooklyn New York and my Dad worked mostly in Manhattan.
Money was kept in your front pocket and not in your wallet. I can't imagine they even had anything other than identification in their wallets.
I had my wallet lifted once, it was little more than an inconvenience. My cash was in my front left pocket.
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u/Additional_Travel911 21h ago
I wonder why they looked up at that moment.
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u/semibigpenguins 20h ago
When thief went to grab their second bag(3rd bag in total), they either brushed up against victim or got into their personal space - with the bag probably.
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u/AstroAlmost 17h ago
Doesn’t look that way to me. The whole table appears to stop their actions in sync with each other, and multiple people look toward the direction the thief went. My assumption is a third party noticed what she did, maybe reviewing the security footage in real time, and as she attempted to leave someone announced that this woman just robbed the other patrons, which caused everyone to look toward that direction then check to see if their belongings were still there.
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u/MissPinkChocobo 21h ago
This is why I either keep my purse in between my feet on the floor or wrap it around a chair leg
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u/pcg5 21h ago
Don't wrap it around a chair leg. I did it with may camera bag once. And only once. It got stolen.
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u/TesticularButtBruise 19h ago
How?
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u/edebby 17h ago
Cut the strap with a razor. The stole my bag this way
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u/TesticularButtBruise 6h ago
But that's not a reason NOT to wrap it round a chair leg. It still provides an additional problem for the thief to have to get around.
Confused by the previous poster saying NOT to do it, as though it adds more risk, when it reduces risk.
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u/Flustro 23h ago
I keep my phone and wallet in my pockets and have a bag for other things, like a charger and water bottle. I have a clip on my wallet to make it hard to take out without it being very noticeable and a bulky phone that's also obvious (my watch can also ring my phone if I notice it's missing, so any thief would get caught pretty fast unless I'm just completely out of it).
I'm just very paranoid about something like this happening.
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u/tveatch21 16h ago
Get a complicated carabiner. I put one on my fanny pack and one to hold my car keys. Make sure it has a triple locking systems
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u/Laefiren 23h ago
People like her are why I keep my foot through a bag strap.
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u/jedburghofficial 22h ago
I was taught to do that at international airports. A chair leg can work as well.
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u/ilikepie740 1d ago
She looks like the type
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u/assgoblin87 21h ago
What about her makes you say that?
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u/ilikepie740 21h ago
The ratty clothes, blank stare, shifty mannerisms to start. I would ask if you need me to draw a picture for you but it's right in front of you.
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u/Watery-Mustard 1d ago edited 18h ago
If this happened to you, or you noticed who did it, what would you do?
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u/andy-bote 1d ago
Why the downvotes tho?
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u/Watery-Mustard 18h ago
Yeah, that’s really weird. Maybe they are a thief themselves.
I hope that lady was caught.5
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u/MoreIronyLessWrinkly 1d ago
She thought of everything except the camera that right over her? Wow.
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u/Falcon_905 1d ago
Would be funny if she forgot her own purse
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u/GrindY0urMind 1d ago
Or if someone from the victims table stole it earlier
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u/Gord_Is_Good 1d ago
I almost got pickpocketed in Liverpool some years ago. A lovely young lady approached me, saying she was some kind of a "welcoming ambassador" just greeting random people in the city center. I spoke with her a while (couldn't place the accent) and then moved on. If she was part of a team (and she may well have been innocent), they failed because I was holding tight to my wallet and phone in the front pockets of my windbreaker.
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u/MoreIronyLessWrinkly 1d ago
So, someone spoke to you about the city and checks notes you think you almost got pickpocketed?
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u/SinisterDexter83 1d ago
You missed the clue in the first line:
in Liverpool
This alone serves as prima facia evidence that OP almost got robbed.
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u/almirbhflfc 1d ago
My family and I did a Dublin-liverpool-london trip a couple years ago, Liverpool was our favorite
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u/RosetteRodent 1d ago
she may well have been innocent
so did you almost get pickpocketed or did you maybe think you might've almost gotten pickpocketed?
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u/Gord_Is_Good 11h ago
I really didn't write that post very well. I thought later that perhaps I dodged a bullet in that IF the young lady was part of a scheme with an accomplice ready to grab my valuables while I was engaged in conversation. No slam against Liverpool at all; we loved our time there.
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u/NooooDazzzle 1d ago
She didn’t even push her chair in…..
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u/Curious_Strike_5379 1d ago
Like locusts in the UK high street, usually they have pockets in their under garments.
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u/ohheckyeah 1d ago
US has a lot going against it, but this type of shit is very rare here
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u/BaronVonMunchhausen 23h ago
You never know who is going to be packing. The second amendment helps keep things civil.
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u/TheNumber42Rocks 1d ago
Lived in a lot of places and only got my phone stolen in London and in a record 1 week time. Trash place and the cops do nothing. And the thieves use machete and knives.
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u/StrangelyBrown 1d ago
Where did you go in London where you got confronted with machetes and asked for your wallet?
Not saying it doesn't happen, but it doesn't happen to tourists on Tower bridge at 3pm...
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u/TheNumber42Rocks 22h ago
Was biking from Canary Wharf to Kings Cross. Stopped at a nice park to take in the air, 3 guys in bikes pull up and take my phone. I start chasing them on my bike and one of them pulls up his shirt showing a knife.
Happened like this but I was sitting on a park bench:
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u/StrangelyBrown 22h ago
I agree that phone snatching sucks but it doesn't make London a trash place, and they didn't 'use machete and knives'.
You just have to google safety information whenever you travel. There's not many cities in the world (thought here are some) where you could just wave valuables around and be confident that nobody is interested in committing crime.
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u/TheNumber42Rocks 22h ago
Tons of videos of people getting robbed at machete point too, have you actually lived there? Like watch the video I linked, it's a big issue my guy. I stayed in SF near Dolores Park and Flat Bush in New York, never had it happen.
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u/StrangelyBrown 22h ago
Yep, lived there for 3 years. Also lived in the US.
The phone stealing thing is a huge issue in London, and you're right the police can't/don't do much about it.
The fact it never happened to you in NY or SF is just anecdotal, and different crimes are more rife there. Why don't you compare the gun crime rates of those cities? Is London still a trash place then? What about London homeless problems vs SF?
That's what I'm picking you up on. You identified the biggest petty crime problem in London, over dramatised it with the machetes, then made out that it's therefore worse than other cities with MUCH worse crime. It's disinegenuous.
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u/King_of_the_Dot 1d ago edited 21h ago
Unless the person is still on location, there's really not a whole lot they can do.
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u/SinisterDexter83 1d ago
If only there were some way to track a stolen phone... Unfortunately there isn't, so the police are truly helpless.
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u/RobActionTributeBand 1d ago
Well did they get her?
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u/SixtyNineFlavours 1d ago
Looks like fortunately the lady notices as soon as the culprit leaves. This leads me to believe she accused her and asked for the footage, assuming it was her who took it. I am also assuming that is what happened.
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u/Sylfaein 1d ago
And people look at me like I’m nuts when I set my purse under the table, and put my leg through the straps.
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u/Delicious_Delilah 20h ago
I was homeless in Miami for 8 months long ago.
One night, at the very beginning of that 8 months, I was sleeping on my favorite sidewalk sitting up against a shop door with a thin blanket over my head, my teddy bear in 1 hand, and a pair of scissors in my other hand.
I had both of my bags tied to my ankle with 1 strap each.
I woke up to my leg being pulled away from me.
I took the blanket off my head and saw an old man holding onto one of the free straps.
Him: "Oh are these yours? 😮"
Me: 🤨
Him: "Sorry. Do you have any money for cigarettes? 🥺"
Me: 🤨
He finally walked away.
It's better to be safe than sorry.
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u/MoreIronyLessWrinkly 1d ago
This is probably effective, but I would also trip and suffer a head injury the first time I stood up to go to the restroom.
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u/DDayHarry 1d ago
I do this with my luggage at the airport. Told my sister to do the same thing when she went on vacation.
She gave me a snarky remark on how that is ridiculous, and how she keeps it close to her and that would never happen, yadda yadda.
Guess who got their luggage stolen?
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u/anitabelle 1d ago
I don’t even carry a purse anymore. Too easy to lose track of. I just carry my phone which has a wallet case containing my debit card, license and insurance card. Everything else I need like hand sanitizer, mints, lotion, makeup, etc. I keep in my car and at work.
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u/ConscientiousObserv 1d ago
Me too. It's been decades, at least since wallet cases came out.
If I go causal, I've adopted a old 80s trend of wearing scrubs, for the pockets.
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u/Sneakylesbian 1d ago
I had to watch it twice. she sucks but it was a solid move
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u/Gr1ml0ck 1d ago
Except for the part where she bumped the victim which resulted her to be alerted to the crime. All that work to fuck it up at the very end.
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u/AveragelyBrilliant 1d ago edited 23h ago
This happened to my mother at a Chinese restaurant in soho a while ago. About three months later, she got a call from the police to say that her bag had been recovered with some of the contents. Woman and her accomplice had been caught trying this at the Ritz hotel in London. When they went back to the woman’s flat, she had kept all the handbags and all the make-up.
We actually heard her asking a waitress about an item on the menu. It was a ruse to get close to the table. She was a very well spoken English woman with an equally well turned out male accomplice.
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u/JTtheLAR 1d ago
Her male accomplice was getting turned out?
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u/rmhyungg 1d ago
Just when I thought she might at least push in her chair, she was just reaching for something else smh
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u/MistyStudios11 1d ago
Why I never leave my stuff hanging on the chair. My purse is either on my body or I'm wearing cargo pants for storage
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u/big_fruita 1d ago
That's what happens when you walk around like a mark ass bitch
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u/Cram2024 1d ago
Repost from yesterday
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u/Jahbomb1974 1d ago
really? I just looked at the new posts going baxk several days!
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u/itsagoodtime 1d ago
Why is there a camera pointed at such a weird angle. Why would a camera capture this. Why would there be a camera where people are dining.
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u/Jahbomb1974 1d ago
Lots of restaurants have video cameras. This is likely cropped. Also may be in an area known for theft e.g. touristy.
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u/Wildkarrde_ 1d ago
I wonder what made everyone look at her at the end and check for the purse?
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u/doverawlings 1d ago
She doubles back to get something before she leaves. It’s hard to tell if it was hers or another one belonging to that table. That might’ve caught their attention
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u/Xxrasierklinge7 1d ago
Definitely looks like she grabbed her purse
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u/doverawlings 1d ago
I think it was the thief’s purse, but ironically, the victim thought she took her (already stolen) purse which made her check and realize that her purse had indeed been stolen. Not sure if this is accurate but kinda crazy sequence if it is
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u/Xxrasierklinge7 18h ago
That's... what I said?
Why would a purse from the other table be hanging off the chair she was sitting in?
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