E-bike muggers

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PK99

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Very predictable, but inevitably brings with it pressure for number plates


Mugging gangs swapping mopeds for quieter e-bikes
Criminals also swapping Nike trainers for brogues so they look like commuters

ByIzzy Lyons, CRIME CORRESPONDENT31 July 2021 • 1:00pm

Mugging gangs are swapping mopeds for quieter e-bikes and disguising themselves as commuters to sneak up on victims, the Metropolitan Police has warned.
Gangs are increasingly opting for e-bikes as the new modes of getaway transport to allow them to quietly blend into the crowd and evade detection, as they do not require number plates.
It follows a heavy police crackdown on gangs using mopeds to snatch phones and watches from unsuspecting victims on pavements.
Officers told The Telegraph this week they have started to see a “displacement” of the traditional use of motorcycles to target people.
The e-bikes, which can cost up to £3,000, are stolen by the gangs before having their top speeds derestricted, which means they can travel up to 40mph on and off pavements.
 

numbnuts

Legendary Member
Broken Britain and coming to a street near you :angry:
 

Dogtrousers

Kilometre nibbler
Is this a real, frequent thing or just another story to push their readers' angry buttons?
Hmmmm. What do you think?

I daren't leave the house these days for fear of these brogue-clad ruffians
 

a.twiddler

Veteran
Is this a real, frequent thing or just another story to push their readers' angry buttons?

Tsk! A slow news week. Brogues? Watches? Who wrote this article? Is Izzy Lyons a nom de plume for Jacob Rees-Mogg? Phones maybe, but who wears a watch these days? (Maybe a smart watch). In what century was this written?

The number plates thing sounds like more anti cyclist click bait to get their readers harrumphing over their porridge. Harrumph! Cyclists! Outrageous! Porridge! Brogues! Number plates! Bah! Lock 'em up and throw away the key! Pass the marmalade, dear.
 

Faratid

Well-Known Member
Utter nonsense clickbait. More of the far right funded media stoking fear and hatred so that we continue to buy their 'newspaper' or whatever, along with supporting and encouraging the rise of regulations and laws, despite the fact that nobody wants to pay more tax to fund all that.
Keep the proles scared so they think the government (whichever one) is useless and we should pay less tax, except to Amazon, Microsoft, Government Minister mates and so on. Big Brother is Big Buissnes, not the state.
 
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