LTO wrote:

vladimir wrote:1.It sounds like she's being careless.

2. Feel sorry for that kid.

One of them (the suspect) jumped off from the motorbike and tried to snatch the victim's backpack.

It doesn't sound like she was being careless. You can't do much do in the way of preventative practices like carrying your bag more carefully if the thief is going to get off the bike and confront you personally in a tourist district in broad daylight.

But yes, he is very young, as many of the thieves that are being caught seem to be. I've seen several of these snatch&grab thefts over the years, and none of them involved young kids like this. I wonder why? Is it just a fluke? Are there more young kids doing it now? Are they easier to catch?

But whatever, too young to get caught up in this sort of thing. Poor kid. Wonder what'll happen to him.

takeoman wrote:Perhaps these youngsters are working for Phnom Penh's answer to Fagin. Now who do we know that is an avid devotee of Charles Dickens?

BOFH wrote:

CEOCambodiaNews wrote:Police said, before the incident happened around the middle of the night, the foreigner was walking from a store on street 172 then when she was walking on th street 78 conner of street 19, there was a group of three gangsters riding a motorbike toward her.

Sounds like 78 is actually 178. There's been a whole lot of snatching going on there.