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AK-47 to your head, if they visit you at home; pick it from your pocket, if you are in a crowded place; matchet to your hand if you are holding it; its a kaleidoscope of methods here - and very colourful.
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Posted: 2007-05-11 23:04:00
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Various ways are adopted but two most popular ones are:
They slap you in the face while talking on the phone in the street or others manually snatch it in your car especially when on traffic.
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Posted: 2007-05-12 05:07:00
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one drastic way ive seen commonly is assaulting a victim at gunpoint or at knifepoint... usually occuring inside public transport except trains (obviously guns and knives cant get past the station turnstile due to security checks). A more subtle way is through snatching or ripping pockets or bags using blades. A ridiculous but still quite popular is through deception (i.e. some stranger tries to borrow ur phone because he needs to call a loved one and its an emergency blah blah blah).
a little observation... here in the philippines, most cellphone robbers prefer stealing new NOKIA models... i may be wrong, its just an impression
i once saved my (former phone) Z600 from theft because the robber looked at my phone and said "di ko alam gamitin yan!!!" (translated: i dont know how to use that!!!)
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Posted: 2007-05-12 05:44:31
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On 2007-05-12 05:44:31, keight00i wrote:
a little observation... here in the philippines, most cellphone robbers prefer stealing new NOKIA models... i may be wrong, its just an impression
i once saved my (former phone) Z600 from theft because the robber looked at my phone and said "di ko alam gamitin yan!!!" (translated: i dont know how to use that!!!)
if that is true, Nokia better start getting ready to lose market share in your country
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Posted: 2007-05-12 07:42:00
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in KSA its like two teen boys come on a scooter and the one behind snatches the phone while you hold it..
well thts "PLAN-A" for them..
R
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Posted: 2007-05-12 08:52:05
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On 2007-05-12 05:44:31, keight00i wrote:
a little observation... here in the philippines, most cellphone robbers prefer stealing new NOKIA models... i may be wrong, its just an impression
i once saved my (former phone) Z600 from theft because the robber looked at my phone and said "di ko alam gamitin yan!!!" (translated: i dont know how to use that!!!)
absolutely agree... robbers in philippines prefer nokia
but still, they rob SE, samsung, motorola.... anything that they could earn from it
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Posted: 2007-05-12 09:02:38
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I was in Barcelona for a conference in 2004 with my new (at the time) P900, and had come out for some coffee at Starbucks one afternoon. As I sat at a table with my laptop in front of me and phone on the laptop's right side, this little kid came in from the street and walked right up to my table. He held out a piece of cardboard which had 'I am an orphan. Please give me some money for food' written on it, in several languages. I looked at his face and he had tears in his eyes, looking totally sorrowful and pathetic. So I felt a bit sorry for him and gave him some change I had in my pocket, and he took it and ran off. I went back to my laptop and was sitting around for maybe 10 minutes when I realized my phone was gone. There was a moment of disbelief, and then I shouted "F***!" and got up and ran out on the street, but he was gone of course.
The little bastard had snuck my P900 into his pocket from underneath the cardboard he was holding out in front of me, above the phone. Very stealthy indeed - I was totally pwned.
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Posted: 2007-05-12 09:21:43
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@bondizi
that thing happened to a friend of mine, well that kind of thief, they were 6 at a table and a small kid came with a cardboard saying i'm deaf. the moment when he put the cardboard over a phone one of my friends yelled:LEAVE THAT PHONE ALONE! and then the kid ran away.w/o the phone, of course
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Posted: 2007-05-12 09:55:02
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Three guys ran at me, they tossed me to the ground, one took my phone away from my pocket and then all of them run away. It was 4pm. And it was a Nokia 3120.
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Posted: 2007-05-24 18:40:28
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One of my relatives was waylaid by a few teenager junkies, they took his phone (can't recall what it was, but it was expensive i think), and asked for his money. He gives them his wallet, they see he has around 20 YTL (~15$), take half the money and let him go?! They were generous now weren't they?
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Posted: 2007-05-25 20:33:47
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