London crime: veteran journalist explains what's driving surge as 70,000 mobiles stolen in 2023 (youtube.com)
This happened to a guy at a crosswalk beside me. I grabbed the rack of the motorbike and dragged him slow, and he dragged me into the middle of the street, but then accelerated and I let him go because I couldn't really hold the bike, and when I looked back, the guy who was the owner of the phone was just standing there at the intersection watching. If he'd sprung into action, he could have had his phone back.
The best remedy for phone snatchers is just phone snatcher traps, which are easy to do. Just employ some people to walk with their phone extended out and grab anyone who steals the phone, then have news cover the story.
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