This is the moment a quick-thinking female Russian tourist took down a phone-snatcher in Argentina. Video posted by journalist Gonzalo Benitez shows the incident on November 9 when two thieves snuck up on the 33-year-old woman while she was on a bike waiting at a junction in the capital Buenos Aires. As they grab her device, she manages to wrestle one of them off the bike and hold him until Good Samaritans rush to her aid and help restrain him until the police arrive. Officers were also able to trace the offender who fled on the bike and discovered 10 cell phones at the property where he was arrested.
I love how many people rushed over to help her. Good citizens looking out.
My wife got pickpocketed in Rome on the train. Possibly a woman who didn’t get on the train behind her. We traced the phone to an atm where it was shut off, but not there. They bought something for 1k at the train station and were probably trying the atm next. She had no phone and kept using mine since I put her account temporarily on my phone. To top it all off Verizon couldn’t activate an esim so I had to wait and go into a store to get a physical Sim where the person working didn’t know I can order a Sim for free online and pick it up. I usually get used phones and it was a pixel 7 pro.
Explain “They bought something for 1k at the train station” for me, please. The rest of your post makes little sense to me either, but I feel like you should elaborate on that sentence if you can.
Oh, my brain was thinking and typing it out didn’t happen. My wife’s bank card and driver’s license was in the back of the phone. We had to cancel the card. They couldn’t get into the phone, that’s why they went to the atm after or maybe a coincidence the last location report on the phone was at the atm. We were doing tourist stuff trying to figure out to pay for the train and they saw. They even warn you about pick pockets on the train in Rome.
Thank you, I didn’t want to come across as rude.
My tap to pay has a $100 limit, any more requires card and PIN. I think I can remove this limit, but I’d rather not.
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Lol yeah dehumanization of entire ethnic groups is awesome!
(pssst: it’s sarcasm. I am very impressed by own cleverness and I enjoy making up weird scenarios that I believe they believe. I blame MAD Magazine for my condition.)
Sarcasm doesn’t include off the rails stupid shit. Keep your fat trap shut.
I don’t recall MAD ever being that meanspirited.
On tiktok, people blames the victim for not paying attention
As is tradition.
Individualist society go brrrr
I guess that’s their way of saying “if you see an American tiktoker struggling, don’t ever try to help!”
TikTok is a cesspool. Even the dumbest person on earth can figure out TikTok, and it seems like they’ve all done it
She should’ve taken out a piece of his calf with a bite to teach him a lesson
I don’t understand phone snatchers?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but all modern phones now can be bricked with the ‘find my phone’ service?
Besides that, unless you get lucky with the pin / pattern, you can’t factory reset or unlock the boot loader, so what does any of it matter?
This is somewhat unconfirmed information but I became privy to it from someone I trust. He told me they don’t care about the phone itself, but its contents. After the phone is snatched they need to rush to deliver it to someone who does the cracking. They pay the snatcher some sum (I heard $100-$200) if they deliver the phone before it gets bricked and then they proceed to steal all the finances they can from it. They either buy crypto and transfer it or just send the money to a dummy bank account that they withdraw from. Another rumor I heard is that they have insiders who do the phone unlocking for them and then those phones get shipped to China where there’s a black market for western phones as they’re not locked down like the domestic versions. Again, none of this is confirmed with a verified source, but it sort of makes sense when you think about it, as even parts in modern phones are serialized, so selling phones for parts only isn’t really an option anymore.
“Parts only” you can find them all over eBay.
I’m from Colombia (all Latam countries share a lot of culture and daily life style) and images like this are somewhat common. Here this thieve would be set free in 48 hours at max, so people take justice all by themselves, as the judicial system won’t do shit.
This is jokingly called “paloterapia”, or “kick therapy”.
Same in Brazil
Nice, good for her. Hope bro got his ass whooped.
More reasons to use a cheap burner when traveling (in addition to any potential border checkpoint shenanigans)
Thought she was about to put him into a kneebar or bust out some other Jiu Jitsu for a second there.
Love the detail of how the driver of one of the car that stops, comes over and after seemingly hearing what’s going on starts kicking the thief.
That guy’s a violent asshole who should go to jail too. We have courts for a reason.
I read another story where some lady accused a guy of kidnapping his own son. Bystanders grabbed him (which makes sense), but then another asshole broke his ribs, kicking him like this.
Fairness and justice are for the courts.
In the streets? Lol get fucked. Don’t be an asshole unless you want to be treated like one.
humans love a reason to beat somebody up. quite scary
Yeah we do. Don’t intentionally break the social contract. FAFO.
So much better than the judicial system which would have taken years to decide who was right and who was wrong.
Let judgment be swift and decisive.
If you have the gargantuan amount of proof here, it wouldn’t take that long. And something tells me these thieves wouldn’t have the litigational strength to hold up the process.
“whatever happened to catching a good old fashioned passionate ass whoopin and getting your shoes coat and your hat tooken?”
It’s not often violence warms my heart. Seeing people pull over so they could kick this piece of shit makes me feel like people aren’t all that bad.
At least not in Argentina.
Ahh I never got that line until now, thought he said passin-it which didn’t make any sense
Now trending on Kickstarter: That guy
Crowdsourced violence™️
stomp that mf out til he has a fucking epiphany
this is what actual anarchy looks like
Nah, anarchy probably wouldn’t have cops to come pick him up at the end. They’d just beat him some more until they felt justified enough cause what else ya gonna do?
Anarchy would shun them from social systems until they made appropriate reperations. They might be jailed, they might be exiled, they might just be cut off from all but basic food/services/etc.
There are law enforcement answers in anarchist societies that aren’t “have cops.”
Please elaborate on how you would deal with professional violent criminals in an anarchist manner.
Sure. You try to head off the behavior before it gets there by ensuring basic needs are met for all and through social tools like shunning and group dynamics.
Your scenario springs up whole clothe without the above, so I would offer the following for it : Jail, exile, death. The order depends on the people involved in the society they created.
Being an anarchist doesn’t mean you lack the current tools we use, it means you dont have to use them, or at least you dont have to reach for them first.
You didn’t answer who exactly would jail a guy with a gun who’s willing to use it and knows how to do it.
Id be glad to. Just tell me the name of everyone in the society, their general roles in different social situations, their agreed on laws and rules, and their specific stance on violence and how they want to respond to it.
Once you do, I can answer your very specific questions about a hypothetical community that doesnt currently exist and hasent been defined by any of the people in it.
So you don’t have law enforcement answers in anarchist societies that aren’t ‘have cops’. Dunno why you had to lie about it.
Anarchy is nice
Everyday people coming to the aide of a fellow human who is fighting to stop herself being victimized is anarchy? Yeah, pretty much. Doesn’t seem like a bad thing, though. If we all took that level of responsibility, you wouldn’t need much of a governmental force.
I think everything you just said with many words, is what he said with few words. You’re both in agreement.
Possibly.
not possibly, entirely
Good. I couldn’t be sure. ‘This is actual anarchy’ is just as readable as ‘this is the degeneracy of our modern culture’ as it is as ‘this is people acting responsibly without need of hierarchy.’
i suppose it’s an understandable knee jerk reaction to assume that.
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i wrote it because when i see riots there’s usually “it was anarchy on the streets!” somewhere….
but in this case there was a large number of people who saw someone needing help and decided to help, which is actually anarchy on the streets…They’re both technically anarchic, (no hierarchy among rioters either) but things like this demonstrate the lack of hierarchy is clearly not the problem in either situation.
I read it as meaning the exact opposite (as in, the crime part is what anarchy looks like) so they might want to reconsider the wording.
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I wish cops were reliable
not gonna happen
I wish they weren’t corrupt, rapists, murderers, and recently, kidnappers.
Recently?
Abolish police. Form well-regulated militias instead. Most of the “police” don’t even live in the neighborhoods they enforce the laws in.
Can you give me one example where this has EVER worked, on a scale larger than a couple thousand people.
