I just had my mobile stolen

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I am such a fool.

Was walking along the road when I got stopped by this couple w/screaming baby in a car. They ask me if I know where the nearest hospital is. My mind goes totally blank, and I say I don't know. Guy asks if I could ring 999, I do, but then don't know what to say. Guy asks to speak into phone, and says I can hold it. This should have set alarm bells ringing in my brain, and it did, but that baby was screaming its head off. Brief moment of hesitation, woman in car offers to take keys out of ignition, I apologise for being a git, guy wrestles phone out of my hand and drives off.

Fuck.

Didn't get the number of the car, didn't even clock what make or model it was.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 9 April 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

you've blocked your phone right?

― Nik (Nik), Friday, 9 April 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It's only a pay as you go, and lovely old T-mobile won't put a stop on it until tomorrow morning.

Have spoken to police now. Apparently, I'm far from the first person this scam has worked on, which is kind of reassuring.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 9 April 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

JAY-SUS. There was an article in the Camden New Journal about this kind of scam. I just don't get it. You know, if you have a CAR, why do you need to spend your time stealing phones for money? Sell the freaking car... thieves are dumb.

I'm sorry about yer phone, RickyT.

― Super-Kate (kate), Saturday, 10 April 2004 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

You see, thats just fucking wrong. At least if you have the initiative to break into someone's house, then fair dos. But fuckign with people's heads to steal a dodgy old phone is wrong. These guys need executing. No trial, no jury, just plain executing.

Sorry, I've just woken up, hence my cranky nature.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 10 April 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I just feel incredibly stupid for going along with it. It's no great disaster in the greater scheme of things - I can get a replacement phone easily enough, and it was hardly in the best of nick either. Only real pain is the data loss aspect.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Saturday, 10 April 2004 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Presumably they goaded the baby to make it cry, too. This sucks, Richard.

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 10 April 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

what about his phone though?!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 April 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The baby was totally in on it. I hate the human race. They should give up smoking.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 April 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the baby was probably the ring-leader. iast sorry Ricky.

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

a friend of mine had his phone stolen whilst sitting outside a Soho cafe. guy comes up and shows him a piece of paper with some mumbo-jumbo written on it and while my friend's trying to decipher what the guy wants an accomplice picks up friend's phone on the table and runs off - seems absurd i know, but this friend is one of the smartest, most astute people i know so it can happen to anyone really.

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I think there's something incredibly rude about leaving your phone out when you're with friends, but hadn't thought it would also be a bad idea re. thieves. Has anyone else noticed that there are a lot of random 'snatcher' things happening lately?

Sorry to hear about this, Ricky. Being stolen from just sucks.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not rude, it's just being so fat that it sticks in your leg when you sit down with it in your pocket

― chris (chris), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

That's shit Ricky, it's the feeling of some fucker having your stuff which rankles the most I guess, a similar thing happened me a while ago.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

that's what handbags are for

― prima fassy (mwah), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

What, beating the thieves with?

Ack, this sucks shit Ricky. On the other hand, you get to supplement tent-buying with sexy-new-mobile-on-insurance-money buying. Rock.

Keeping your phone on the table has always seemed like a slightly silly thing to do, especially in pubs where there are drunk people + unstable tables + pints full of liquid. And thieves, yes.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheers Ronan, but I'm not all that annoyed about the theft of the actual phone, it's more the avoidability of it, and the resulting inconvenience.

Zemko OTM. I need to get me one of them Pantone manbags.

MDC, kind of stupidly it wasn't insured. It was a bonus from Nokia for completing one of their projects and I never got round to sorting out insurance.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

suddenly london seems much more ominous than i had previously thought

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

well i would say i've never been mugged or had anything stolen from me in all my time bowlin' around town but that's tempting fate i fear

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I imagine London being a lot like Grand Theft Auto.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

You should see what most of the ILXors really look like in person.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I really shouldn't.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yes, it's a rough life on the mean streets of Barnsbury.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

After a successful Club Freaky Trigger, Tom Ewing makes another break for it:

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://gta3.gamesurf.tiscali.de/gta_vice_city/pictures/other/Ricardo_Diaz.jpg

Me, yesterday.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"i am a sensitive human being, who deserves love like EVERYBODY ELSE, won't you take chance with meeeee"

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

However, as gameplayers, the UK has just suffered a defeat.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Why play when they can live it?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone else noticed that there are a lot of random 'snatcher' things happening lately?

i'm totally paranoid about my stuff when i'm in london in a way that i'm not in new york. last time out, stacey got her phone snatched in old street. she was waiting for me in front of an off-licence, and as she was texting a friend some little hooligan pedalled by on a bike and grabbed it out of her hand.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 10 April 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Old Street would appear to be London's number one hotspot for phone snatching

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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