Low lifes again.

[spaximus]

So my daughter and her uni friends in a club find that three have had phones stolen from their hand bags whilst on the dance floor. My daughters was on her hip not left alone. Any way they have unzipped the bag and stolen the I phone. This was locked and password protected so cannot be used, but one of the other phones was not. So this piece of st decides to ring her parents and tell her that they have kidnapped their daughter and want £10k for her safe return.

Now obviously the parents cannot get hold of her at 2.00am as her phone is knicked, no house phone so the police are called who find no one at her rooms, she was stopping with a friend, so they take this very seriously indeed. eventually find her at 6.00am.

Now stealing the phone for profit, but ringing up to deliberatly worry her parents why and how much would I like to meet them, perhaps worth mentioning to anyone at uni

[Seez]

That is serious, i suspect that if the police catch them they could be in for a lot of trouble. Nicking a phone and getting caught probably won't amount to too much, but making threats of that kind must be very serious even in the eyes of Mr Plod.

[southendpier]

hmm, it would be interesting to see if the police do anything about that.

[bazking69]

southendpier said:

hmm, it would be interesting to see if the police do anything about that.

My line of thinking too. Even if they caught the scroats it would be a caution at worst sadly.

Lets just hope they do it to the wrong people one day. The very much wrong people...

[croyde]

bazking69 said:

Lets just hope they do it to the wrong people one day. The very much wrong people...

I'm amazed that this does not happen more often.

Even nasty pieces of work have kids so imagine some gangster getting that call from some scroats that have nicked their little princess' phone.

I bet he would find them pretty quickly.

There's a film in the making there.

[bazking69]

What goes around comes around. Statistics say that they will come across someone even more horrible than them one day and will learn the hard way.

[soad]

bazking69 said:

What goes around comes around. Statistics say that they will come across someone even more horrible than them one day and will learn the hard way.

That is very likely. Karma.

[Carfiend]

The BFG had the right idea. Stick them in a hole and throw down Snozcumbers.

[jmorgan]

Seez said:

That is serious, i suspect that if the police catch them they could be in for a lot of trouble. Nicking a phone and getting caught probably won't amount to too much, but making threats of that kind must be very serious even in the eyes of Mr Plod.

Damn right. Hand them to the courts and they will wag their finger at them. Vigorously.

[Silverbullet767]

croyde said:

bazking69 said:

Lets just hope they do it to the wrong people one day. The very much wrong people...

I'm amazed that this does not happen more often.

Even nasty pieces of work have kids so imagine some gangster getting that call from some scroats that have nicked their little princess' phone.

I bet he would find them pretty quickly.

There's a film in the making there.

Taken

[Carfiend]

That is true. You have be pretty dumb to kidnap the daughter of a Nazi/Founding IRA Member/Jedi Master.

[croyde]

Carfiend said:

That is true. You have be pretty dumb to kidnap the daughter of a Nazi/Founding IRA Member/Jedi Master.

Love that film. Every baddie that cops it goes to his grave with me laughing wildly, as long as I'm alone in the house.

[Bing o]

Silverbullet767 said:

croyde said:

bazking69 said:

Lets just hope they do it to the wrong people one day. The very much wrong people...

I'm amazed that this does not happen more often.

Even nasty pieces of work have kids so imagine some gangster getting that call from some scroats that have nicked their little princess' phone.

I bet he would find them pretty quickly.

There's a film in the making there.

Taken

Bloody good film too!

[soad]

Bing o said:

Silverbullet767 said:

croyde said:

There's a film in the making there.

Taken

Bloody good film too!

Cheers for that, chaps. Not heard of it before but getting favourable reviews, so will watch that.

[amir_j]

Bing o said:

Silverbullet767 said:

croyde said:

bazking69 said:

Lets just hope they do it to the wrong people one day. The very much wrong people...

I'm amazed that this does not happen more often.

Even nasty pieces of work have kids so imagine some gangster getting that call from some scroats that have nicked their little princess' phone.

I bet he would find them pretty quickly.

There's a film in the making there.

Taken

Bloody good film too!

Guys- see the origional version, also called Taken, smaller budget mexica/usa.

Hollywood glammed it up into a bit of fun!

Edited by amir_j on Monday 8th March 15:00

[amir_j]

spaximus said:

My daughters was on her hip not left alone. Any way they have unzipped the bag and stolen the I phone.

must have been an expert thief.

[spaximus]

amir_j said:

spaximus said:

My daughters was on her hip not left alone. Any way they have unzipped the bag and stolen the I phone.

must have been an expert thief.

I don't know if that is true as the club was packed on the dance floor so she felt nothing out of the ordinary, the fact that three were stolen sugests it was not a one off tho.

Police have taken it seriously, hopefully the call they made to Bardados might give some clues

[J-Skid]

soad said:

Bing o said:

Silverbullet767 said:

croyde said:

There's a film in the making there.

Taken

Bloody good film too!

Cheers for that, chaps. Not heard of it before but getting favourable reviews, so will watch that.

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money.

But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you.

But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you"

[sjc]

J-Skid said:

soad said:

Bing o said:

Silverbullet767 said:

croyde said:

There's a film in the making there.

Taken

Bloody good film too!

Cheers for that, chaps. Not heard of it before but getting favourable reviews, so will watch that.

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money.

But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you.

But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you"

Well that's a bit harsh, just because Soad's never heard of it.

Edited by sjc on Tuesday 9th March 00:00

[Dibble]

bazking69 said:

southendpier said:

hmm, it would be interesting to see if the police do anything about that.

My line of thinking too. Even if they caught the scroats it would be a caution at worst sadly.

Lets just hope they do it to the wrong people one day. The very much wrong people...

I've dealt with a similar job - although it was the lad's Dad who'd reported him kidnapped.

The lad owed money to druggies, and rang his Dad saying he'd been kidnapped, then got a mate to pretend he was the kidnapper.

Very quickly sorted out it wasn't genuine. Well, all night, but that's still pretty quick to investigate and disprove. The lad got done for wasting Police time, and got hit with a heftyish fine (~£1,500 IIRC at Court, even though he (wisely) pleaded guilty.