{"id":99,"date":"2017-10-04T07:33:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T23:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2017\/10\/04\/thief-arrests-himself-after-idiotic-snatch-and-run\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T16:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T08:41:04","slug":"thief-arrests-himself-after-idiotic-snatch-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/thief-arrests-himself-after-idiotic-snatch-and-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief Arrests Himself After Idiotic Snatch And Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A bumbling snatch thief was apprehended by police just 10 seconds after he grabbed a woman\u2019s mobile phone on a street in southern China, Chinese media reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A bumbling snatch thief was apprehended by police just 10 seconds after he grabbed a woman\u2019s mobile phone on a street in southern China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/jobs\">Chinese media reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FmPgSybOZekEmCj4DT0CTz4Nwe6c?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"7216d5666cd77e9f0087adbb9d8e07b1-sz_599803.png@1l_640w.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The snatch thief was apprehended seconds after his crime. \u00a0Photo:TVS1<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>The 38-year-old man ran straight into a police station after snatching the device from the passer-by a block away in the Longgang district in <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"inside_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/tag\/shenzhen\/\" title=\"View all posts in Shenzhen\" >Shenzhen<\/a>, Guangdong province, <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"inside_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/tag\/news\/\" title=\"View all posts in news\" >news<\/a> portal Thepaper.cn reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage showed the woman holding a purple umbrella as she waited by a traffic junction on a rainy morning on March 31.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who had just parked his bicycle nearby just moment earlier, suddenly ran towards the woman, grabbed the mobile phone she was holding, and fled across the road.<\/p>\n<p>The woman chased after the snatch thief <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/immediately\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immediately<\/a> but tripped, falling to the ground in the middle of the road, the video clip showed.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, it seemed like the thief would make a successful getaway.<\/p>\n<p>But the man unwittingly ran past some gates and straight into a nearby police station, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>A police officer who was smoking nearby as the thief ran in, stopped the man after the woman came running up, shouting that he had taken her phone.<\/p>\n<p>The officer then apprehended the thief on the spot and escorted him into the police station, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he ran into the station, his expression was panicked and confusion was written all over his face,\u201d a police officer, surnamed Kong, told the news portal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally, suspects are quite sly. But this suspect appeared to be unfamiliar with the area, so he ran directly into our police station. This is a very rare occurrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that the man had only recently arrived in Shenzhen, a tech hub that draws many migrant workers from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>He had yet to find employment or a permanent place to live in, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Source:SCMP<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlXXlKXBxtykYAuKbjvAxKMwIbVH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"640-11.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bumbling snatch thief was apprehended by police just 10 seconds after he grabbed a woman\u2019s mobile phone on a street in southern China, Chinese media reported. 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