Blokes on moped mounted the curb and snatched the missus's phone this morning

[Monty92]

Yes, but I think the issue is that these chases endanger the public generally, not just the scrote.

Which is fair enough, really.

Sure, although if the police had the power to give chase these incidents would decrease hugely. It's not worth their while to nick a phone (which they'll get about £50 for) if there's a fair chance of getting caught. The very reason they do it is because they know the police are hamstrung

[Burney]

Yes, but I think the issue is that these chases endanger the public generally, not just the scrote.

Which is fair enough, really.

And thus does the rule of law break down.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

I hope you at least pretended to be furious for your wife. She will be bitterly disappointed if you don't behave like a real man over this m.

Was she walking along yapping into the thing and causing folk on the pavement to have to navigate around her?

[Monty92]

I hope you at least pretended to be furious for your wife. She will be bitterly disappointed if you don't behave like a real man over this m.

Was she walking along yapping into the thing and causing folk on the pavement to have to navigate around her?

She does do plenty of phone yapping on the street, but on this occasion I think she had it out to use to pay for her bus fare.

[Pat Vegas]

Rode off and gave her a cheery wave, the cheeky wee scamps.

Three police officers came round to do their thing. Turns out they are legally not allowed to chase people on bikes in case they fall off. Hence, an epidemic of phone snatchings across the capital.

Least it wasn't acid, 'spose. I'd have had to dump her.

Where did it happen Monty? I've seen this a few times around Angel and Clerkenwell recently.

[Monty92]

Where did it happen Monty? I've seen this a few times around Angel and Clerkenwell recently.

Yep, they come from Tottenham/Edmongton to middle class north London to prey on people who aren't used to interacting with black people and freeze in their presence.

The police told us they'd had 17 reports of stolen phones in 45 minutes around north London the other day.

[Burney]

Yep, they come from Tottenham/Edmongton to middle class north London to prey on people who aren't used to interacting with black people and freeze in their presence.

The police told us they'd had 17 reports of stolen phones in 45 minutes around north London the other day.

The only sensible reaction to young black males in London is fear and suspicion, as Gavin de Becker could tell you.

[Monty92]

The only sensible reaction to young black males in London is fear and suspicion, as Gavin de Becker could tell you.

There's a pwoper mental one who roams the streets of East Finchley. He prowls around wearing a baseball cap and a hoodie and looks scary as fúck, especially when he walks into the road and approaches your car when you're sitting in traffic. But then he raises his head and invariably has a massive gormless grin on his face. The first couple of times he does it you shít yourself, but then you realise he's just a harmless mentaller and you almost start to look forward to seeing him around.

[Pat Vegas]

The only sensible reaction to young black males in London is fear and suspicion, as Gavin de Becker could tell you.

I treat everyone like that.

[Burney]

I treat everyone like that.

Very wise. I've been reading 'The Gift of Fear' recently. It points out that our desire not to be seen as rude, anti-social or racist causes us to suppress and ignore our natural intuitions of fear and get us into terrible trouble - not least because these weaknesses are exploited by those most likely to harm us.