If some journalists can find gangs and criminals AND convince them to do an interview then why can’t police lmao

Only the BBC would think it's ok to treat a confessed criminal like a make a wish terminal cancer kid.

This changes my mind about England a lot

If this was America they would've get some led.

I'm not sure why anybody gives a rat's backside about the safety of the men on the mopeds when other people's lives are in danger. It's a misplaced sentiment in my view.

Those of you who said served those people that were actually victims here right are exactly what’s wrong with humanity and society. This just happened to me earlier today. I’m a solo traveler, first time traveling to London knowing no one else. I rely on phone to know if I was heading to the right direction of my destination (because I don’t travel on luxury using taxi or Uber and I enjoy walking to experience as many different places as possible) and recommendations for different things based on my current location. Not everyone that is looking at their phone is scrolling social media. I ran multiple streets to chase the criminal on the bike while I was crying because I don’t have a backup of my phone. Because of this I actually booked a flight to go back the day after and canceled the rest of my trip because I don’t feel safe in London anymore. It was bright day light and I was just walking on the street not even crossing the road. I swear I’ll never visit London anymore. I thought I had to worry more in Paris but turned out London was the one. Before this, I thought if I ever want to move out of the US I might do London, now this city will forever be the worst place that I’ve ever been.

The UK law is to soft on criminals have them cained like other countries do

i’ve been attacked as well in central london after calling the police they didn’t show up , the very next day my colleague was attacked and they stole her phone this people has no shame should be burnt alive plenty of work in london but this is easy money and they have no worries or remorse because they know they will be out in short period of time or the same day what a country

This really doesn’t help stereotypes. Cultural enrichment.

imagine, an armed robber expressing disgust at how easy it would be for him to break in to a shop

Mans said gta gives him motivation to steal phones what a broke bum😂😂😂

Had my phone stolen yesterday, moped mounted the pavement to get my phone as I glanced to check where my uber was. I used to live in UK but moved to Canada Thankfully because there are no values here anymore, did not even bother reporting it to the police either

My phone's worth 20 quid if some tea leafs stole it they'd chuck it back at me!

Im an asylum-seeker I just moved here 2 months ago alone and yesterday my phone has been stolen And i was saving money to get this phone it’s literally brand new i got it 3 weeks ago and I don’t have any money to get a new phone it was refurbished I don’t have insurance also but I just wanna tell anyone like those ppl who make excuses to do such things like this to make them feel better everyone in this life are suffering and they have their own problems so don’t you dare and think you’re the only person do, and if everyone reacted to life problems like you u will not gonna be still breathing right now go to hell ur place in hell because ur sick and I already have anxiety and traumatize btw im 19 years old and u still think u just stole a phone

We wanted a Cosmopolitan London now we got it

Not making it in life, is a consequence of stealing from others. One reaps what one sows.

Here’s some tips to prevent this happening to you: Phone Settings (I have an iPhone so other users will have to find equivalent settings) 1. Require passcode/FaceID before turning on Airplane mode - When thieves snatch your phone, they’ll immediately put it on Airplane mode to stop you from tracking it. 2. Enable ‘Find My iPhone’ on iCloud - If your phone is snatched, you can track, mark as lost or stolen and erase the phone remotely. DO NOT EVER remove you stolen device from your iCloud account. Once you do they can gain access. 3. Have passcodes/FaceID set up for all your apps, everything. You can never be too careful. 4. Use an alphanumeric passcode instead of a 4-digit pin. 5. Have a working backup phone available somewhere safe. This is really helpful should the worst happen. 6. Regularly backup your phone and all your app data, like whatsapp chats, photos etc. 7. Get phone insurance. 8. Set two-factor authentication for all email accounts and any apps that allow you to. When you’re out and about 1. Keep your phone hidden at all times. Do not carry your phone in your hand. 2. I do not recommend wearing headphones while outdoors. You can’t hear people coming up behind you and you advertise that you have a phone on you. You become an instant target. If you have to, make sure they are discreet and allow you to hear the noise of your surroundings. 3. Keep bags tightly wrapped around you. Thieves want to be in and out quickly. Having a bag tightly wrapped creates too much resistance. 4. Before using your phone, look around you to see who’s in your vicinity. Only use phone when safe. 5. Try not to walk too close to the roadside of the pavement. 6. Do not have your phone out on the table in coffee shops etc. These thieves will go in and grab them. They don’t care! It’s free money to them. If your phone is snatched 1. Enable lost mode and erase mode on iCloud ‘Find My’ by logging into to iCloud.com/find. If a passerby is kind enough, ask to use their phone to do this using their internet browser. 2. Report your phone stolen to your network carrier. They can blacklist the IMEI of the phone to put off potential buyers for your phone. 3. If your phone is snatched, keep your eyes on them and see where they go. Try to remember any distinctive features, clothes. Try to remember what roads they go down to make their exit etc. This is very useful to the police. 4. Report the theft to the police. 5. Change your passwords - Consider using a password manager like Dashlane. You should never use the same passwords for everything. 6. Call banks and reset any banking apps. 7. If your phone is snatched, keep your eyes on them and see where they go. Try to remember any distinctive features, clothes. Try to remember what roads they go down to make their exit etc. This is very useful to the police. This is all I can think of right now, but I hope this helps. Hopefully, you read this before anything bad happens.

38:44 made me feel like bro in a gta heist

The audacity want to be a racing while some of your victims still suffering I mean go to hell

I fwel bad for the delivery guys

Man that's just showing the bloke a door and locking it. That's actually deep asf. How did this not become a series on BBC and sponsor the fella that way to a racing career.

Americans watch this, we don't all drink tea and listen to the opera

just buy a cheap sacrificial phone worth 50$, and call it London Gang Tax at this point

A pair of dickheads tried to do this to me yesterday, they only managed to get it into the pavement, but it was in their direction, I immediately started acting like a psycho and was throwing my arms and kicking my legs in the air 🤣, picked up my phone and threatened to kill them and used every swear word under the sun to describe them, they both got scared and pissed off immediately on their probably stolen bike 😂 I should add I am female too (though I do lift weights and exercise 2-3 hours a day lol and am 5’8) , I do feel quite proud of myself for not getting scared and not letting them have my phone, I probably wouldn’t recommend doing what I did though as they do apparently often have knives or weapons but it was a reflex and I go absolutely ballistic when angry - I think I possibly have a slight anger issue which helped save my iPhone 11.

in the usa, these guys would be shot by now

Meanwhile in America: *thief gets shot my every single ped*

I had a vespa 300 same they use at beginning of the video, 1 night 4 teenager criminals riding on the other side of a back road on 2 scooters, in Clapham/Brixton area tried to kick me on the floor and then I assume steal my scooter. I do not know why, might have been my past and instinct I knew was happening avoided the kick and stopped then furios shouted at them to come back if they had boll...ks, they dove away. Never bothered to report. Had scooters stolen 3 times in London, now forced to movet to geared big bikes. Police do not give a shit, many times called them and handed scooter thieves on a silver plate, but they did nothing about, and almost had a go at me.

They need to step up.. get and organized group and hunt the bad..

Yeah, pretty scummy as Libby says. Someone snatched my phone on a bike 48 hours ago. I caught them in a VERY dynamic way and landed on him. I have some injuries - but I suspect he could have at least as many. Bad man. Got my phone back k which is very rare.

the cops should just ram them off the road

You should ask this guy.. “ If you should get caught by the police, what do you think should happen to you?”

I hv lived in uae 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi for 5 years now this video has made me realize how safe uae 🇦🇪 is u can never see something like this even if u forget ur phone to a bus stop u can get it the next morning or go to nearby police u will find anything u hv lost dere,i don’t know how they managed to safe their country like dis it’s heartwarming big up to uae

He has a moped why can't he do deliveroo simple because they don't want to graft they just want easy cash and thats there way of doing it

A shame that the best runner of the simmulator couldnt be recognized

They always get away... until they don't. That "don't" means jail or prison or shot dead, and is not worth 1000 getaways.

In this game his time will come,when the bigger thug takes his takings! #Karma

Well, I personally absolutely hate the mobile phone culture that has descended on humanity like a plague from outer space. But everything breeds something else. We now have a subculture of mobile phone thieves, snatching people's mobiles from their hands. This happened yesterday as a friend and I were having lunch at the Artemis café London Road. We didn’t see the snatch, but a girl ran past us screaming. The thief was no longer visible. I felt very sorry for her. Possibly a new student at the local South Bank University. But whilst I feel very sorry for her, at the same time I feel people who walk around texting and paying no attention to what's happening around them are making themselves an easy prey for these criminals. At 5.23 you see a scene exactly like the one we witnessed yesterday.

Brilliant he is right be focused on every thing

13:51 LMAO

They all get caught eventually or get seriously hurt whilst trying to get away.

If anyone wants to visit the UK, then avoid London at all costs! It's an absolute sh**hole, and you WILL get ripped off by everyone! Taxis, pubs, restaurants, hotels, shops, will ALL be looking to empty your wallet asap, that's if you can keep it from being nicked by a pickpocket in the street!! Head north instead, away from the south of England, you'll meet a much nicer, friendlier kind of Brit! 😁 (I know what I'm talking about, I'm Scottish! 🤣)

Are we supposed to believe that criminals will invite a lady in to their house to interview them

Motorcycle theft is such a difficult crime to police. The frame number on all production bikes is easily grinded off and replaced with a new one.

'if you cant get a job...' stealing bikes from pizza deliveries making nothing per hour...

Fit all traffic police vehicles with "nudge bars" like in the USA. Give them a chance to stop and if they don't, knock them off. If you drive over them and they die, valet the car and get it out on the streets again.

Lol Gang??? Of Phone Snatchers?? LmfaO!! Imagine breaking your Mother's Heart for an iPhone5,, now she has to make it a closed casket because half your Top was ran through by a hollow point... How Smart

Had a similar crazy moment during my tourist days - it was December 1st, around 8 PM. Walking down Southwark Bridge Rd toward Park St, and bam! Out of the blue, some dude in gloves snatched my phone right out of my hand. I managed to shake him off, turned around, and what do I see? A masked guy on a bike with his partner-in-crime on another bike. The phone's on the other side now, so these bike bandits pull a quick reverse and pedal off towards the bridge. Wild, right? 🚴‍♂️

28:41 man didnt really know that those jewels on the window are fake not the really ones. At least, here in Argentina its how thousands of jewelry stores has been saving their asses

BBC tell me news . What are you going to do about it ? Nothing.

9 minutes 59 seconds... plain clothes policeman in green jacket

...................speechless

every 1 a foreigner,, I wonder if the local council will give em a flat each while there waiting for there shit mopeds back!!

All these years I've been working when i should have been a scumbag? I don't believe the grass is greener on the other side!

Why is this in 480 p if it's 3 years ago

Bet it wouldn't be like that if the shop owners had firearms

I would like to thank the black community to our society. Their peaceful and generous nature makes them ideal neighbours, lending testimony to their family values and parenting skills. Their child-rearing practices and skills mixed with their unparalleled work ethic are second to none. Their rationale and logical thought toward circumstances coupled with their innate capability to de-escalate situations is to be envied. Their commitment to academic excellence enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people. Real estate values are driven by the mix of Africans & Jamaicans into an area due to their caring and respectful nature of these communities, their hard work and a self-reliant nature. Without their industrious and creative drive, we would be poorer as a nation.

I got robbed two days ago in Manchester.😓We need more CCTV.

This is why i don't flash my phone when out and about quick look put it away in my pocket that is zipped up. Friends think i'm pandantic but i'm looking out for myself doing what i can to not be a victim.

I would LOVE to run my own unit (Team) against these punks in London ! Believe me they would get theirs! The only catch is that the Government do their part , which is lock them up for GOOD!

This was beautiful

Nothing to do with not finding a job,I've been unemployed didn't make me a scumbag, It's easy money being a scumbag

He could try crowd funding

Should be stopped before innocent victims get hurt.

From now on if I have my phone out I am wrapping my hands around it with a firm grip

Wonder what essentials they spend the money on though ?

Now Police have changed their rules of contact with getaway vehicles.

But. Where are the MI6?

.. it doesn't matter how GANGSTER you might think you are there is always A BIGGER FISH OUT THERE THEN YOU!

A man said buss the phone in airplane mode lol

Poor delivery drivers

My iPhone 11 Pro Max got stolen I wish I cached them

I'm really surprised that still today there's not a way to prevent the phone from being put into airplane mode or turned off without finger print or password

Cars should just ram them, screw it

How can you guys not understand this bro

These little broke wannabe gms that don’t even have a line 😂😂

Do that in fiji....i promise you....you must run for your life & never to be found again.....if not, there will be no more teeth fOr you to Brush😂😂

Time to strap up London!

15:41 Whats the name of the clip.

If i was the reporter i would have secretly called armed police and got them all arrested, these theives are probably still operating due to low funding by the government in the policing sytem. There needs to be more police on motorbikes and stricter laws.

The police can’t do anything then why do they have a job or the mayor is protecting them with his policy’s

We all come from Adam and Eve and we shouldn’t harm each other we should help each other. A concept thieves don’t grass. Thieves are sad and lonely bastards.

Well l had my phone stolen to my shock people actually seem to do this as a business. I will never have my phone out again in London ...sad to say its being the ghetto everywhere. Your stealing a phone worth £1250 each just to get paid £500 for three and the dealer sells it for twice which im sure still wont come up to the original price. Thats very stupid when it could be done in anther way ...shows the iq of these type of ppl. At the end the big companies win because most ppl have these phones on contract not pay out right ...so again the 1% wins..the ppl making excuses for these criminals..wait until it happens to you and see how you feel.

The reason they do it is your crap laws in your country 🙄.

I can’t wait to see their faces when apple iCloud lock comes in place n since apple is pairing parts with the phone….dismantling is a waste too😂

On my job but he is

Bring back public floggings - 50 lashes with a whip - plus a stiff prison sentence, and see what that does for the crime wave.

GTA 6 London lol

He’s saving life 😭

These southern continent Bluebottle flies never fail to disappoint me!

you know.. i thought about going to london... but nvm..

He a gangster real shit 😭

Why BBC don't Sponsore Mr x lol that could be BBC it's 1 Person who makes it live on cam

This phenomenon has only gotten more common with the economy getting worse and worse

top 99% means that you are only better than 1% of all people

They are scooters , mopeds have pedals Ave had a typhoon ,NRG, they get boring I would rather have a DTR or KDX

Jewellery in FRONT OF THE METAL BARS

And I thought that Britain (England in particular) is better than America

I can't for he life of me think why this doc is 40 min long

What would we do without Toastie. ❤💜

I ride moped also skr 125 but these guys give moped bad reputation like ride with friends do wheelies ,tune them but dont hurt people please.