Phone thefts at gigs.

[metalsteve]

Just a heads up, I was at the Therapy? gig at the Scala on wednesday where a number of people had phones stolen from pockets, me included. There are known gangs targeting live music venues and stelaing phones in the crowd. I was up front getting jostled around when my was lifted from my jeans pocket, shortly after i'd been taking some photo's, my guess is they targeted people seen taking photo's or filming which is a very common thing these days.

Fortunately i had my phone returned by the Met police yesterday, the thieves were in a car that triggered an anpr so got pulled over, suspect was found with 10 stolen phones an taken into custody.

So just be careful if using a phone at a gig. Lesson learned for me.