Snatcher Arrested After Snatching Foreigner's Backpack
Re: Snatcher Arrested After Snatching Foreigner's Backpack
There's a police station on the corner of 19/184, and also you get the armed police driving round at about that time of night that go to the palace.
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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?LTO wrote:vladimir wrote:1.It sounds like she's being careless.
2. Feel sorry for that kid.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.One of them (the suspect) jumped off from the motorbike and tried to snatch the victim's backpack.
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.
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Re: Snatcher arrested after trying to snatch foreigner backp
Could be. There are certainly some that are, especially amongst the beggar children/street sellers. (I've been using the 'Fagin' analogy for years in their case ) But I don't know about these young kids now involved in bag snatchings and robberies. Not sure if there is a pattern there yet. Maybe just falling in with the wrong crowd of older boys. Or maybe my observation is just a fluke or sampling bias. Not sure yet.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?
Yup. I have cited that corner before (and that stretch along 19) as one of the more robbery prone spots in Phnom Penh. They also like the corners at 240, 184 and 154.BOFH wrote:Sounds like 78 is actually 178. There's been a whole lot of snatching going on there.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.
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