200 phones a day stolen in London

40 % of Phones stolen in Europe , are stolen in the UK

Average price of a Moble 400 Quid

This isn't 20 years ago, you can buy a reasonably decent phone for £100 these days unless you want to pay for a status symbol.

Phone thefts dropped off when phone prices came down, But then the great firewall of china went up and got higher and higher over the last few years.


A £100 UK phone will go for £300-£1,000 in china purely because it doesn't have state installed monitoring software on it.

Chaos theory butterfly effect: China increases its big brother control causing a woman on the other side of the world to get robbed on the high street.

Good. Less of the bloody things the better.

you can't buy I phones for a oner , This is london , most people will not be walking around with Oner phones , its not old Folks walking around with phones in their hand its the younger look at me types

they are been stolen off people crossing the road , Perhaps a phone theft is better than being run over

Agree with Cheese I can't stand them , I hate talking to people on the phone Anyway ,as for the rest of it , do you really want to be walking around with a Phone with your whole life on it

Just for someone to steal it . Fair point about China Escapee

I believe the vast majority of phones sto;en in London are iphones. Thieves can tell them a mile off from cheapo Samsungs.

would these tea leaves be as quick to half inch a cracked glass,p1ss stained red phone box?!

Theft is theft and phone theft should be condemned as much as car theft or any other crimial activity. Someone might be stranded with no means to pay for a ride home if they lose their phone.

All sold back to Khans Corner shop pals

I agree with sageform, victim blaming is poor form.
Wtf shouldn't you use your own property wherever you like.
Those using them crossing a road and getting run over is a
different matter, they are stupid and drivers hitting them
should not be blamed.

* I'd go further and make them pay for any damage to the vehicle involved

In Sutton the vape shops on the high streets are usually nicely kitted out and decorated. It cannot be cheap, in my opinion. Now and again I'd look at the items on display at the window. The average mobile phone would cost at least £300 each; one or two as much as £700 meaning the mobiles alone would cost at £4k. And, together with the other items eg lap tops, iPads, etc, the window could be a home for over £8k.

Who owns these items on display? The shop owner or the individual item owner? However, despite the items on display are valuable and easily disposable for cash not a single smash and grab has ever happened or reported by any vape shop in Sutton.

Reading a good book right now. About money laundering.

We're in a world where our use of cash has dwindled to next to nothing. Almost everyone would agree, yeah? I was out last night at The Cavern in town. Even there, it's cash only now. Nobody really uses cash any more.


And yet...the number of bankotes getting printed every year is higher than every before.

And part 2...

If we do have cash, it's generally for little things. I'll always have a couple of fivers for tips. Might pay for a cab in cash still.

But of that new cash, the biggest by far is for the high denominations.



It's just the clearest, most obvious demonstration that this is all just going to criminals to hide from the law and avoid tax. It literally can't be anything else. And yet we still just go with it. Not just here btw. Same in America. Same in Europe. This is the stuff being used for drugs, for terrorism, for all that stuff.

All it'd take is for governments to come together and say, nobody genuinely uses much money, particularly big stuff. The days of us walking into Curry's and buying a telly with fifties are over. The only people using this are criminals. So we're stopping them. You've all got six months to pay them into your own bank account cos after that time they're not legal tender and won't be honoured.


Of course they won't do that though. Cos these pr!cks are all getting cash kickbacks themselves aren't they.

Reading a good book right now. About money laundering.

"Everybody Loves Our Dollars" by Oliver Bullough perchance?

yep

moneyland was so annoying im not ready for more. the amounts from putin and chums upset me too much

tthey arent getting kickbacks. thats conspiracy bollox

no cash is a problem for many. many older folks aint online and there will soon not be any banks. those with poor vision rely on cash. charities have seen a big drop in donations. tradespeople and cabbies and similar luv cash. the only tax-dodgers nobody cares about

there should be room for both

as to the op ive heard its 120k a year, and thats just reported. not reported is who the phone-stealers are

china also has the expertise to unblock them and spare parts because thats where they are made. handy busines-make em, sell em and get them back

as long as you are causing mischief to the west the ccp will avert its gaze

as ive siad before, china should never have been allowed into the fto. it was only 20 years ago but theyve caused some upheaval since

"Hunting The Rolex Rippers" (BBC iPlayer)

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001t575/hunting-the-rolex-rippers


An earlier documentary regarding the Culturally-Enriching Moped Gangs and their watch stealing activities. (Originally shown on BBC).

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ufqkm

Top post BF 8.56pm,very true. Even a debit/credit card is heading towards getting outdated never mind cash with people paying on 'phone apps'.
Ryanair and their app broke my heart going 'paperless',many oldies don't even have a good idea of a mobile.
Re the ccp and their 'mischief' agree there too, it is a murky circle. The 86**, farrrages attempt to cause 'mischief' to the EU, dave and 'igor',hepstein,the spider in the web? really? what's going on?

theres no web but the interweb pa. thats conspiracy-land. its misguided and arrogant but not a racket

i was in vienna airport and we (3) had lost our boarding passes. ruinair charged us e50 each for 3 bits of paper! i would still be there if my mate hadnt quietly paid. what a racket

in some ways you have to admire o'leary but he makes it hard sometimes

chinas a menace but those who get very upset by some places dont givash1t about its nastiness because its anti- u.s. and that trumps everything. its a dystopian nightmare

China would rob your eyes and come back for your eyebrows but in recent times got 150% tariffs and said no. They aren't the one acting all billybigbollix atm.

they dont take any carp from anyone and dont care about public opinion because there isnt any

im counting the days until trump is gone. hes worse than i ever thought although not always wrong. hes made europe wake up, albeit in a strange way

xi unfortunately will not go away, nor will putin, who must count his lucky stars for trump

Dave could have done a lot of good for everyone but is making a total hames of it. Agree he isn't wrong about everything but everyone will suffer for the wrong bits. A period in time when nothing happening would have been so welcome and too much caponey stuff shoved in not needed.

oh, pa

the red cap is re=opening

i will have a pint for the first time in a million years and drink to you 

never a fan really but the number of pubs has plummeted and im sick of it. property is so valuable but real community life, ie not the gay community or the black community or the moslem c... which is all bogus has been eradicated from london life. one community nobody cares about is the indigenous one

Dave is a Russian shill,

seems that way

im will refrain from my usual long and boring posts as they keep being deleted and its tiresome

must be 5 today, and they were incredibly funny and wise. honest

haha BF,the Mother Redcap? God forgive me but i can't remember the famous pubs name a couple of hundred yards up the road for cashing cheques but the redcap was the next port of call. It was quiet and comfortable but could never suss it fully, i hope everyone was naive as me but very much doubt it there.

Clipfines an agency had an office almost next door,you were lucky to get a £20 note a day from them,they worked it well.

I remember the Father Red Cap Pub in Camberwell

archway tavern. was barred from it twice. rightly. i was a prize @rse at the time

its pedestrianised now but the pub is dead. i keep nagging my mate to buy it but hes stopped expansion as his backers wont put up the money. well done rachel

i went the other way, up to the whittington cat. gone now, sadly

was a great business for the owner. (was it 3%?) we queued for ages and spent a chunk in the pub. lots of lads had their only decent meal of the week in there

some went to hills next door and did it in immediately. how times have changed

Of course,that's it. Prime location in the centre of everything. You couldn't make it up today and probably better not to go into too much detail. I hope it was the 'rates' that you were barred for. We all got older and i'll say it with certainty wiser,feckless times.

remember a fat crooner called lee lynch? he got me removed

and a disagreement with a couple of connemara lads that resulted in a vist to the infirmary. luckily, it was 100 yards away!

Move to the rural areas where a lot of things are still reliant on cash. Most churches would close without a collection plate, village fetes, coffee mornings, plant sales, bring and buy etc. are all cash and even some of the local shops are cash only still.

Met police arrest man over theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone

Popcorn.

A call log released by the Met this year showed McSweeney failed to tell the police that he was the top adviser in Number 10 and that the stolen device was his work telephone.

The police also ended up with the wrong Location of the theft , This is a serious breach of security , Starmer must have been aware the Phone was stolen . were the secret service

informed of this theft , why was nothing said regarding the theft till recently . Incredible TBH

So the Chief adviser to the PM can have his Work Phone stolen and nothing is Done , Infact the police end up with totally inaccurate Info

Why has Starmer not informed the Secret sevice ASAP  ? This is total Madness

Lord only knows the Phone numbers that must have been on the Phone

And Other Info 

Starmer needs to be asked what Action he took regarding this theft  ,Why were MI5 not informed ASAP after the theft , surely they were told about the theft ?

Starmer cannot say he didnt know ,Phone number Addresses messages of Many in goverment must have been on the phone ,It's Crazy , Never Mind the Mandy messages

Popcorn indeed Donnie  , several buckets me thinks

Will we find out who nicked it, or was selling it.

Will the parliamentary inquiry get it,

Will plod retrieve old data

Rubs hands, sits back,... And waits, tucking into popcorn.

nah, boris, sunak, and others conveniently lost their phones and were unable to provide them to the 'fast track' inquiry.
Nothing happened, expect the same with sweeny.

Phone may have been found.

Spaffers phone was apparently hacked by so many
that they dare not turn it on. Lol

Bad news

"The man was taken into police custody and later bailed. He is suspected of receiving the phone after it was stolen and then selling it on. He is not suspected of any involvement in the original theft. The phone has not been recovered."

This has just crossed my mind.

Why can't the owner of the stolen mobile activate a self-implode device hidden within the mobile as soon as the mobile is reported stolen to the police? A device to practically obliterate the mobile or key components of the phone from within could be the answer and deterrent, I think. This will render the mobile useless and un-saleable eg being sold in a vape shop.

A mobile version of infecting a colour dye on stolen money.

I think the Israelis do phones like that.

Based on reports as of March/April 2026, Downing Street officials did not contact MI5 or GCHQ after Morgan McSweeney’s government phone was stolen, despite it potentially containing sensitive information. Instead, the device was remotely wiped by government IT services shortly after being stolen in October 2025

I would imagine there would be Software in place should a phone get lost

Wiping out data is an insufficient deterrent. The mobile can then be re-set or re-configured again back to normality. A complete disintegration of components rendering it useless is the only solution to counter mobile snatching on an industrial scale daily and being sold in vape shops up and down the country.

Until the stolen mobiles are off the shelves and display windows in every vape shop up and down the UK high streets the proliferation of vape shops will continue. This phenomenon is akin to fobt in betting shops, and is solely to facilitate money laundering and criminality.