There’s money in them there mobiles: For manufacturers, for network providers, for content providers, and for the thieves who snatch the handsets and sell them on. Today’s cellphones, unlike the bricks of old, are typically worth a lot on the black market – moreso the types of phones carried by Mobile World Congress delegates...
Delegates, welcome to this wonderful city. Watch your pockets! Barcelona is an incredible city and a perfect choice for conferences. It has just one flaw, an epidemic of pickpocketing mainly focused on tourists and visitors to the city. By following a few simple guidelines you can greatly reduce the possibility of a nasty incident...
In some cultures, this is how they deal with a motorcycle bag-snatcher. In Barcelona, the locals do nothing. Have patience with the video, it’s worth the wait. (We’re curious how many people we can send to this video. At the time we found it (led by Frederico Lacerda), there had only been 154 views.)...
Guest post by Bambi Vincent, thiefhunter Thieves who operate on the principles of stealth, motion, or impedence strive to minimize contact with their victim. Zero face-time is their preference. Minimal body contact, zero notice, zero recognition. Other pickpockets, though, cause contact and use it to their advantage. Bob Arno and I (we call ourselves...
Thanks to “Robbed in Barcelona” collaborator Don Simon for informing us about this new scam, first seen in the wild this month in Barcelona. Don’s friend tells us his story in his own words: “I was in this bar, just having a beer, and this boy who looked like Michael MacIntryre was in the...
You couldn’t write this stuff, really. Sitting in front of Mercat de Santa Caterina in Barcelona, a TV interviewer (on the left of shot) interviews a street musician. Mid-interview (about 30 seconds in), the musician lifts his head… he’s seen something…
A little something for your Friday morning. Thanks to our Twitter follower andhwang (@andhwang) for giving us the heads-up on this video, via Gawker entitled: “Purse-Grabber Stripped Completely Naked by Vigilante Horde” Released initially onto the notorious LiveLeak, it made it onto YouTube where it has been viewed (so far) some 480,835 times. Gawker commented:...
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