I love how many people rushed over to help her. Good citizens looking out.
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Nice, good for her. Hope bro got his ass whooped.
I don't understand phone snatchers?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but all modern phones now can be bricked with the 'find my phone' service?
Besides that, unless you get lucky with the pin / pattern, you can't factory reset or unlock the boot loader, so what does any of it matter?
This is somewhat unconfirmed information but I became privy to it from someone I trust. He told me they don’t care about the phone itself, but its contents. After the phone is snatched they need to rush to deliver it to someone who does the cracking. They pay the snatcher some sum (I heard $100-$200) if they deliver the phone before it gets bricked and then they proceed to steal all the finances they can from it. They either buy crypto and transfer it or just send the money to a dummy bank account that they withdraw from. Another rumor I heard is that they have insiders who do the phone unlocking for them and then those phones get shipped to China where there’s a black market for western phones as they’re not locked down like the domestic versions. Again, none of this is confirmed with a verified source, but it sort of makes sense when you think about it, as even parts in modern phones are serialized, so selling phones for parts only isn’t really an option anymore.
“Parts only” you can find them all over eBay.
Love the detail of how the driver of one of the car that stops, comes over and after seemingly hearing what's going on starts kicking the thief.
That guy's a violent asshole who should go to jail too. We have courts for a reason.
I read another story where some lady accused a guy of kidnapping his own son. Bystanders grabbed him (which makes sense), but then another asshole broke his ribs, kicking him like this.
humans love a reason to beat somebody up. quite scary
Yeah we do. Don't intentionally break the social contract. FAFO.
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I'm from Colombia (all Latam countries share a lot of culture and daily life style) and images like this are somewhat common. Here this thieve would be set free in 48 hours at max, so people take justice all by themselves, as the judicial system won't do shit.
This is jokingly called "paloterapia", or "kick therapy".
Same in Brazil
She should've taken out a piece of his calf with a bite to teach him a lesson
I like how one of them kicks the bastard while he's downé
~D o w n é~
🤣🤣🤣🤣 what the fuck did my autocorrect do?????
I'm leaving it like this. Fuck it. LoL
The Canadian French keyboard layout has é where / and ? would be on an ANSI keyboard. It's actually a very common typo for English speakers using that keyboard layout (more commonly capitalized like downÉ since ? requires Shift). What's your setup? Maybe you accidentally switched keyboard layout?
Edit: hehe you're on Lemmy.ca
Yeah, the period '.' is right next to 'é' on the Canadian French keyboard. I must've hit that key instead of the period.
V'là!
hO nO hUmAn rIgHtS
fuck this people
My wife got pickpocketed in Rome on the train. Possibly a woman who didn't get on the train behind her. We traced the phone to an atm where it was shut off, but not there. They bought something for 1k at the train station and were probably trying the atm next. She had no phone and kept using mine since I put her account temporarily on my phone. To top it all off Verizon couldn't activate an esim so I had to wait and go into a store to get a physical Sim where the person working didn't know I can order a Sim for free online and pick it up. I usually get used phones and it was a pixel 7 pro.
Explain "They bought something for 1k at the train station" for me, please. The rest of your post makes little sense to me either, but I feel like you should elaborate on that sentence if you can.
Oh, my brain was thinking and typing it out didn't happen. My wife's bank card and driver's license was in the back of the phone. We had to cancel the card. They couldn't get into the phone, that's why they went to the atm after or maybe a coincidence the last location report on the phone was at the atm. We were doing tourist stuff trying to figure out to pay for the train and they saw. They even warn you about pick pockets on the train in Rome.
Thank you, I didn't want to come across as rude.
My tap to pay has a $100 limit, any more requires card and PIN. I think I can remove this limit, but I'd rather not.
Always beware of 2 people on a motorcycle
Agreed, but she woulda needed a mirror to see them coming, and been looking.
She knew what was happening the moment she did see them though and did an amazing job latching on.
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On tiktok, people blames the victim for not paying attention
TikTok is a cesspool. Even the dumbest person on earth can figure out TikTok, and it seems like they've all done it
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