pick pockets on the 35 bus

[walkssoftly]

hi all, while returning from Kings, some kid try to remove my phone from my pocket.

This hasn't happened to me before in the 40 years that i've lived in Brixton - i was a little shocked when I realised what was happening and when I challenged the kid, I got a mouth load of abuse.

Just thought I would post this up here to warn others.

[Principle]

I had trouble on that same bus infact this 17yr old boy actually faught me for my fone i was 19 at the time, and the guy was alot taller and built/gym wise him and about 3 guys he snatched the fone from me and was up at the doors i went up to him to grab it back off him and he opened the emergancy doors and he jumped off the bus but as he did it i went with him and ended up having my phone and part of his "plantinum chain" someone on the bus called the police and i was able to identify him and his so called "friends" who all try to suck up my ass since then!

nothing but wannabes!

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I got pickpocketed last year or the year before. Got my pass which I'd only renewed the day before and my cashpoint cards + a load of business cards of civil servants :D

[Nixon]

My gf almost got her phone taken out of the side of her jacket pocket on the 35 a few weeks ago at like 2pm.Some skinny black guy with a leather trilby.Right by the doors downstairs.A nice African woman saw he was going for it and asked him what the hell he was doing and he pegged it off at the next stop.Totally lucky.

[detective-boy]

Make sure all the abortive attempts are reported, people. It helps build an overall picture, just as much as the successful offences, and it may well be that the CCTV pics of the attempts are better than the others. Report via the Met website in London - no queues, endless phone call transfers, etc. Takes about 5 mins.

http://www.met.police.uk/reporting_crime/index.htm#online

(The bit about offences involving violence not being reportable that way is because they (rightly) deem them as needing an immediate response so use 999 ... if that has passed and you otherwise wouldn't report such a thing at all, you're not committing any offence or anything by doing so via the on-line report and at least they have the info. - they'll just ring you back for some more details (they usually do anyway unless it's the most straightforward crime in the world)).

[lenny101]

I don't know what sort of bus the 35 is but the bendy buses are a nightmare for pickpockets. The driver has no control over how many people get on so the buses get seriously overcrowded.

I know several people including myself who have been done on the 38 (Angel - West End).

[poster342002]

This hasn't happened to me before in the 40 years that i've lived in Brixton - i was a little shocked when I realised what was happening and when I challenged the kid, I got a mouth load of abuse.
Well, it was most unreasonable of you to object, wasn't it? I mean, come on! It was his right to help himself to your phone! :mad:

This same staggering sense of "entitlement" to rob someone was demonstrated recently to a friend. Two little scrotes sidled up to her in a staion, eying her phone in a really obvious way - so she moved up the platform. Cue lots of scandalised tutting and "chaaa, man!" type rubbish. After she got on the train, she was then not-quite-amazed when said toe-rags then walked all through the train looking for her and then tried (unsuccessfully) to catch her in a pincer-movement when she got off the train.

[pootle]

Thanks for the heads-up.

I've been pickpocketed a few times in the West End but I should remember to be just as alert/cautious round home an' all, eh!

[skyscraper101]

I am so nervous of pickpockets I keep my phone wallet in a tight pocket on my leg where I can feel them ALWAYS.

[vauxhallmum]

I don't know what sort of bus the 35 is but the bendy buses are a nightmare for pickpockets. The driver has no control over how many people get on so the buses get seriously overcrowded.

I know several people including myself who have been done on the 38 (Angel - West End).


Yes, but bendy buses are free, right? Thats the upside.

Surely the answer is to never have anything on show/ never carry valuables in bags or pockets that cannot be properly shut?

[pootle]

Surely the answer is to never have anything on show/ never carry valuables in bags or pockets that cannot be properly shut?

That's not always a guarantee though - the twice I've been done up the West End (oo-er!) was when I had bags zipped up and over my body. When you're in a crowd though and people "bump" into you, these professional pickpockets are so light fingered and quick, it's done before you even realise!

[brucenbart]

Saw a lady tackling a pick pocket by bus stop outside Abbey Nat in Brixton on Thursday 1st - she followed young girl off bus and, with help of passer,s by apprehended the pick pocket.