Pick Pockets On The Bus! :)

Gav1n

Hey people! Here's an interesting awl story I thought I'd share with you guys.

At the moment I'm working part time for Dublin Bus, and regularly hear various stories from bus drivers about incidents of violence and misconduct by passengers on certain routes.

It seems however a new type of scam is becoming incresingly popular, and quite regular on the 123 route bus.

The culprits are non-nationals, apparently romanian women. They board the bus carrying either a long leather jacket, or a blanket of some kind, and sit next to women who are carrying a shopping bag, hand bag or groceries.

The last incident I heard of this happening, was last Monday. The Romanain women sat beside a Middle aged woman from Drimnagh, and covering her actions with the help of the long leather jacket in her lap, proceeded to cut a hole in the Drimnagh woman's shopping bag, and was trying to steal her purse!

Luckily the woman was aware of what was going on, started screaming and help was at hand. Sadly however, they have been other incidents were the victims have not been so lucky.

I'd love to know if anyone else has ever seen anything like this on the buses, or trains?
And ladies! Be careful! Comming up to the christmas we're all over the place with shoppin bags and this that and the other! If you become aware of this happening to you on a bus, just make like it's your stop, get up, and tell the driver! Don't confront them!

koneko

OMG
someone should put this in an e-mail and forward it to everyone they know

with extra exclamation points

scribs

Heard this story years ago - only then it was the travellers instead of
foreigners that were meant to be at it.

This sort of stuff has allways gone on and allways will

Zombienosh

koneko wrote:

OMG
someone should put this in an e-mail and forward it to everyone they know

with extra exclamation points

lmfao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah....

quarryman

wonder did she pay her fare?

Sleepy

koneko wrote:

OMG
someone should put this in an e-mail and forward it to everyone they know

with extra exclamation points

I'm all outta rep but you'd have got some for that!

woosaysdan

omg i better watch out for that the next time :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

super_furry

It actually is happening. There was a piece in the Herald last weekend with Gardai warning people to be on the look out for it on the LUAS, they even gave a discription of one of the people they're after.

PH01

...I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't to those pesky kids!

TwoShedsJackson

Holy ****!!!!!!!!1 Not a description!!!!!!!! That'll certainly put an end to that monster's LUAS crime rampage!!!!!

koneko

"Watch out for people that might want to steal your handbag"

Damn that's really going to put a stop to crime. If you weren't already minding your bag, you deserve to have it stolen.

cujimmy

scribs wrote:

Heard this story years ago - only then it was the travellers instead of
foreigners that were meant to be at it.

This sort of stuff has allways gone on and allways will

Maybe in the wonderfull weird world of the racist, Non Nationals are the new Travellers

FX Meister

I think the guy is getting mixed up between Romanians and Romas too.

Seanie M

koneko wrote:

"Watch out for people that might want to steal your handbag"
If you weren't already minding your bag, you deserve to have it stolen.

That is the daftest response I have ever heard!

Good advice on that one koneko! got my vote...


:rolleyes:

koneko

Seanie M wrote:

:rolleyes:

You're just bitter because you know I'm right.

Theft isn't a new idea. It's not like there was a scumbag convention recently where someone stood up and said "HEY EVERYONE! I had an idea! How about we steal people's bags, they might have money in them!". It's been around as long as people have. Warnings like this are just really lame. It's like having a warning on the news telling you not to stick your hands in the fire.

Stark

quarryman wrote:

wonder did she pay her fare?

No, she lost all ability to speak English when the bus driver asked her for her fare.

Jip

Don't be lying, you heard this story on Joe Duffy yesterday, however, at least you changed the outcome, the woman who it actually happened to didn't realise her purse was gone until she thief got off the bus.

monkeyfudge

Was the handbag made out of butter?

I can't see how you could cut through a fabric without grabing good tight hold of it first, unless you're using a light saber... and there has been a recent influx of Jedi Roma actually...

skywalker

monkeyfudge wrote:

Was the handbag made out of butter?

I can't see how you could cut through a fabric without grabing good tight hold of it first, unless you're using a light saber... and there has been a recent influx of Jedi Roma actually...

waves hand. these are not the bags your looking for.

jonny68

You have to ask the question how the fcuk did ythese cretins get into this country in the first place unless they were smuggled in illegaly?this sort of thing is all too familar in London, these people responsible for this should be deported immediately..........

FX Meister

That post sounds a bit racialistic to me Jonny68. They hardly came into the country telling authorites they weren't going to be a burden on the state as they were planning to rob hand bags on buses.

Hobbes

Stark wrote:

No, she lost all ability to speak English when the bus driver asked her for her fare.

Actually I heard that the government paid for her fare, but because she didn't like the first bus she got onto they rerouted another bus to her location because we all know the government love making sure these romanians are ok.

The woman with the bag being cut was probably asking to be stolen from as well and these women were just making sure no horrible Irish criminal got her goods.

Of course the Irish criminals just snatch the handbag instead, cutting the strap to escape easier (Saw this happen twice on Westmoreland Street when I worked there).

John R

Hobbes wrote:

Of course the Irish criminals just snatch the handbag instead, cutting the strap to escape easier (Saw this happen twice on Westmoreland Street when I worked there).

I'd be much more pleased if we could deport all these scumbags. Send Dublin's entire skanger population to Romania, that'll teach them to mess with us.

D!ve^Bomb!

John R wrote:

I'd be much more pleased if we could deport all these scumbags. Send Dublin's entire skanger population to Romania, that'll teach them to mess with us.

hee hee... 'hey boss, dya want some shoes'' ''i sellin some shoes real cheap like'

sceptre

super_furry wrote:

It actually is happening. There was a piece in the Herald last weekend with Gardai warning people to be on the look out for it on the LUAS, they even gave a discription of one of the people they're after.

I hope that with the Herald's world-renowned high journalistic standards (laughs so hard my head rolls on to the floor) that the description was better than "foreign woman with big coat"