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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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[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 hours ago

“Parts only” you can find them all over eBay.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

More reasons to use a cheap burner when traveling (in addition to any potential border checkpoint shenanigans)

[–] Darkness343@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

She should've taken out a piece of his calf with a bite to teach him a lesson

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

humans love a reason to beat somebody up. quite scary

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah we do. Don't intentionally break the social contract. FAFO.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world -1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Compare - if you will - the effort and danger of the women herself, hanging onto the offender on a moving motorbike, falling multiple times, being dragged underneath his feet, not letting go, to the big man in the white t-shirt arriving late and kicking the offender as he's pinned down.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

She took a few shots to the face too. One with the phone, and another with an elbow. May have slipped under the elbow though.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 53 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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".

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Same in Brazil

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

On tiktok, people blames the victim for not paying attention

[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

TikTok is a cesspool. Even the dumbest person on earth can figure out TikTok, and it seems like they've all done it

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 4 points 9 hours ago

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!"

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

As is tradition.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 106 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like how one of them kicks the bastard while he's downé

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 day ago

As one should. FAFO

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Always beware of 2 people on a motorcycle

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago

Agreed, but she woulda needed a mirror to see them coming, and been looking.

She knew what was happening the moment she did see them though and did an amazing job latching on.

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