Moped gang rob Porsche driver at knife point for watch

[Pan Pan Pan]

Nothingtoseehere said:

skinnyman said:

I would have handed over my watch, no bother.

Same here,the £2.39 I paid isn't worth it.

I never quite understood the whole massively expensive watch thing, but then I don't really `get' the whole jewelry, bling thing either.
I have seen watches priced at 20.000 pounds plus and more, and surprisingly they do not allow the wearer to teleport to another place, time, or dimension. All they do is tell the time, no more accurately than a forty quid watch from Argos can. I suspect we will start seeing solid gold, sledgehammers soon, and diamond encrusted bog brushes.

[Saleen836]

Pan Pan Pan said:

Nothingtoseehere said:

skinnyman said:

I would have handed over my watch, no bother.

Same here,the £2.39 I paid isn't worth it.

I never quite understood the whole massively expensive watch thing, but then I don't really `get' the whole jewelry, bling thing either.
I have seen watches priced at 20.000 pounds plus and more, and surprisingly they do not allow the wearer to teleport to another place, time, or dimension. All they do is tell the time, no more accurately than a forty quid watch from Argos can. I suspect we will start seeing solid gold, sledgehammers soon, and diamond encrusted bog brushes.

My cleaner refuses to use anything but...

[Halb]

Pan Pan Pan said:

I never quite understood the whole massively expensive watch thing, but then I don't really `get' the whole jewelry, bling thing either.
I have seen watches priced at 20.000 pounds plus and more, and surprisingly they do not allow the wearer to teleport to another place, time, or dimension. All they do is tell the time, no more accurately than a forty quid watch from Argos can. I suspect we will start seeing solid gold, sledgehammers soon, and diamond encrusted bog brushes.

A watch might be worth 5k if it could teleport you.

I fear for my Timex Ironman triathlon 250 lap timepiece.

[Hoofy]

rambo19 said:

Lock your doors, do up windows, be aware of your suroundings- not difficult...................

People have got complacent. They walk around with £100 headphones on, staring at their £500 phones, basically knocking out the only two useful senses for awareness (the other senses not being very useful - touch (if you can feel them, it's too late), taste (likely you'll taste your blood as they've punched you in the jaw and split your gum), smell (you might smell their Lynx deo but you'll definitely smell the mess in your pants post-mugging)).

[dudleybloke]

"I panicked and pressed the wrong pedal officer."

[tannhauser]

Just another day in Londonstan...

[PorkRind]

Hoofy said:

saaby93 said:

Guess youve seen this image

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-406580...

What do you do in that situation?

Interesting to read from that article: On Monday, a 16-year-old died after the moped he was on collided with a police car.

My first thoughts: saves on prison costs.

Was thinking same thing. The police should be able to police without fear of social backlash

[Zod]

Hoofy said:

rambo19 said:

Lock your doors, do up windows, be aware of your suroundings- not difficult...................

People have got complacent. They walk around with £100 headphones on, staring at their £500 phones, basically knocking out the only two useful senses for awareness (the other senses not being very useful - touch (if you can feel them, it's too late), taste (likely you'll taste your blood as they've punched you in the jaw and split your gum), smell (you might smell their Lynx deo but you'll definitely smell the mess in your pants post-mugging)).

So who is in the wrong? The person with the phone or the mugger?

[Pesty]

skinnyman said:

I would have handed over my watch, no bother. There's 3 outcomes here I see:

A) Attempt to drive off, get stuck in traffic, caught up and potentially get stabbed
B) Attempt to run them over, probably get it wrong and potentially get stabbed
C) Hand over watch, "have a nice day sir", report to police & claim on insurance

It's the same when a thread pops up about someone breaking into your house for your car keys. If I come downstairs to find 2-3 masked man waving around baseball bats shouting for my car keys I'm going to hand them over. The other option is to allow them to kick my ass and trash my house searching for them, the whole while my wife and 2 young kids are upstairs.

You missed D) hand over your watch do whatever they say and get stabbed anyway.

You are at the whim of these people who have zero morals and look at you like a none human piece of meat.
And the police have let them get to this stage because they are scared.
The community have let it get to this stage with their my boy dindu nothing he was a good boi playing football mentality and attacking the police for doing their jobs.

[Yipper]

London Police obviously need to set up an anti-moped unit. Flood the affected zones with dozens of armed, fast-response motorcycle units, take down all the perps, one by one, relentlessly, day after day, followed by extreme jail sentences upon conviction, until the baddies get the message.

For now, if you are a nervous or cautious type, it is best to drive around London with doors locked, windows 100% up (to stop acid), stereo volume down, phone and watch hidden (but within easy reach for emergencies), leave an escapable distance to the vehicle in front, and be very wary of two-up bike / moped / superbike riders or one-up riders in dark clothing who do u-turns or come up on the outside from behind or to the side.

[davidc1]

I was cycling the other week by ruxley in kent .sunday evening 830pm. .the main road by the bmw garage when 2 bikes with 4 guys on took me by surprise .came up along side me and sprayed me in the face.for a few seconds i was v worried as could have been acid.
I fell off the bike but fortunatly was not badly hurt. The used a fire extingwisher on me. C**ts. If i had not of been wearing glasses i think they would have tried to rob me. Reported it . Any bike with a pillion . Beware.

[Alucidnation]

superkartracer said:

Halb said:

what was th car?

One of the fastest in the UK at the time ha ( good job ).

But what car was it?

[Hoofy]

Zod said:

Hoofy said:

rambo19 said:

Lock your doors, do up windows, be aware of your suroundings- not difficult...................

People have got complacent. They walk around with £100 headphones on, staring at their £500 phones, basically knocking out the only two useful senses for awareness (the other senses not being very useful - touch (if you can feel them, it's too late), taste (likely you'll taste your blood as they've punched you in the jaw and split your gum), smell (you might smell their Lynx deo but you'll definitely smell the mess in your pants post-mugging)).

So who is in the wrong? The person with the phone or the mugger?

Daft question, really.

[catso]

Yipper said:

London Police obviously need to set up an anti-moped unit. Flood the affected zones with dozens of armed, fast-response motorcycle units, take down all the perps, one by one, relentlessly, day after day, followed by extreme jail sentences upon conviction, until the baddies get the message.

But they probably won't bother, far easier to rely on CCTV and camera van convictions...

[Halb]

On Newsnight now

[hyphen]

Yipper said:

For now, if you are a nervous or cautious type, it is best to drive around London with doors locked, windows 100% up (to stop acid), stereo volume down, phone and watch hidden (but within easy reach for emergencies), leave an escapable distance to the vehicle in front, and be very wary of two-up bike / moped / superbike riders or one-up riders in dark clothing who do u-turns or come up on the outside from behind or to the side.

I think everyone should download an App Locker (which allows you to individually lock apps/settings) and a short display timeout. The last thing you want is for your phone to get snatched whilst using it so your screen is unlocked with access to everything on it.

[andymc]

tannhauser said:

Just another day in Londonstan...

thtas racist............... and true

[mickytruelove]

im just glad i dont live in London. i know the population is huge but the crime rate seems through the roof. I live in a small town in scotland and i know if i was in that position the first thing i would be doing is driving over the s.

[Deptford Draylons]

Hoofy said:

saaby93 said:

Guess youve seen this image

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-406580...

What do you do in that situation?

Interesting to read from that article: On Monday, a 16-year-old died after the moped he was on collided with a police car.

My first thoughts: saves on prison costs.

It would be nice just to run the fkers over , the only problem being if one of them is black and ends up on a mortuary slab due to a Policeman, the prison cost saving is lost in the riot cleanup bill.

[fttm]

^^ and people still try to convince themselves that Britain isn't well and truly screwed ?