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.
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this is what actual anarchy looks like
Anarchy is nice
Tell me the world doesn’t need vigilantes, do it.
One day maybe, but right now we just need real consequences for these types of crimes. It was premeditated, not accidental by any means. Just drains of society preying on perceivably weaker people.
Can I argue that increasing punishment generally doesn’t decrease crime long term, only short term. The change we need is to address the root cause not to increase the size of the stick.
Sure, I agree to that. But right now, people that prey on weaker people need consequences, not slaps on their wrists and a promise they won’t do it again. You can’t “accidentally” rape someone. Lock em up
Stealing from someone in public is quite a different crime from rape. If people are stealing, remove their need or desire to steal rather than locking them up and putting them in a position where everyone they know is a criminal. It’s a cycle that’s hard to break and we should be more careful about who we thoughtlessly throw in jail.
You are correct. What they’re stealing matters too. I’d absolutely look the other way for someone stealing food from a business. But yanking someone’s phone out of their hand, literally stealing from your neighbors is wild.
But yes, I shouldn’t have used rape as an example, it was only to show some crimes are exactly the opposite of accidental.
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.
