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Just a warning to everybody, my 11 year old grandson has just come home after a boy tried to steal his phone. He was stopped by a boy of about 13/14 years of age. There was actually 3 boys but only one of them was trying to steal the phone the others were telling them to leave him alone. The boy asked him the time and he said he didn?t have a watch, so he said if u have a phone look on there. He took the phone from him and made him change the pin code, he then put a new code in. My grandson was crying and thankfully a lady and her young daughter intervened as she could see something wasn?t right. She made the boy give the phone back, despite getting verbally abused by the boy. She then brought my grandson home so that she knew he was ok. Thank you so much to the lady if she is on the forum, she is a real angel.

My grandson is very shook up, but if it wasn?t for the lady intervening i would hate to think what could have happened. There are some good people in the community. Thank you again.

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    • A pretty awful incident.  Thankfully from my time in London fairly rare.  There was a time, particularly in North London in the 00s when moped gangs would come up behind cyclists and grab their bags.  There were also scare stories about riders being pushed off at the top of the hill and the bike grabbed, or cyclists being pushed into a canal such as the Grand Union.  I think these were very exaggerated. In recent times, cyclists, in particularly women, have been mugged, on cycle routes when other riders are not around, such as Deptford/Millwall  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm27x5klxxlo But I expect that crimes involving threats/violence by criminals against cyclists are less likely than in other areas of life.  Mobile phone theft being one of the obvious examples.  I was told many years ago following a burglary that criminals would rather not have any contact with their victims, and bike theft would sound to be less risky to them by stealing locked up bikes (far too common) rather than attacking the rider.  The spate of thefts from builders vans in broad daylight knocks this a little on the head, as the criminals are often confronted. @Rockets as a regular cyclist in the past did you experience threats etc?  My worse experiences were being knocked off by dangerous drivers, once being left for dead in a hit and run, and road rage where drivers chased me or threatened me after they had passed to close, turned across me etc.  You learn from this and do your best to avoid such conflict.  
    • Whilst I am not sure if this is appropriate to this case, I know that often people from minority groups don't feel safe with the police and there have been many incidents where people from minority groups have been mistreated, beaten etc, just for being.   
    • It certainly was😁 Bob S
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