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Mind your mp3 player while walking around (esp. in Smithfield)

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  • 13-10-2011 10:29am
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    sf80
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    I saw three guys (teenagers, hoodies, usual suspects) checking out a girl on Bow street yesterday evening, one of them broke off and started following her down Friary avenue. I drove ahead of them, got off my bike and walked back towards her just as the guy was about to snatch her ipod.

    I shouted at him and he did a runner, but the Guards say there've been a quite few robberies in the area lately. They come up behind you or make the grab when they're cycling past you. They've no fear, this was at 6 and there were plenty of people about.

    Be careful when you're going through the playlists or sending texts on the street :mad:


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    Attempted snatching? Really?

    mor eliek attempted robbery, no need to be so sensationalist about it.

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    sf80
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭sf80


    That's a bit much, someone was attempting to snatch something from someones hand, rather than a threat of violence and 'give me your ipod'. It relates to anywhere, but this is specifically in relation to this happening in the Smithfield area lately.


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    A "snatching" usually relates to someone taking a child, there was no attempted abduction in this instance.


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    sf80
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    Not as I understand it

    1. The act of snatching; a quick grasp or grab.
    2. A brief period of time: "At the end we preferred to travel all night,/Sleeping in snatches" (T.S. Eliot).
    3. A small amount; a bit or fragment: a snatch of dialogue.
    4. Slang A kidnapping.


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    See number 4 there, that's what most people reading the original thread title will have seen.


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    sf80
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭sf80


    Des wrote: »
    See number 4 there, that's what most people reading the original thread title will have seen.

    I believe that is incorrect.


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    ok


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    RandolphEsq
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    Get a room you two.


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    Dr. Jonathan Crane
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    Think there should be less complaining about the title (I certainly didn't think it was a kidnapping) and more props given to OP for helping someone out.


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    RandolphEsq
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    Des wrote: »
    Attempted snatching? Really?

    mor eliek attempted robbery, no need to be so sensationalist about it.

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    Spell properly, and then use that argument.


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    spurious
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    There's a children's court up there, so you have a select clientele in the area already.


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