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.
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.
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.
humans love a reason to beat somebody up. quite scary
Yeah we do. Don’t intentionally break the social contract. FAFO.
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.
Mob justice is how “that evil witch walked across my fields and now my harvest is rotten” turns into lynching innocents. If I can grab someone and accuse them of something and other people jump in on good faith that I’m being truthful, there’s a risk that they’ll end up beating up an innocent if I wasn’t.
What they should do at best is hold the other down for professional truth-finders to come sort out whether the accused actually is an asshole or whether I’m the asshole trying to frame them.
In principle I agree with you but this really requires faith in the justice system to always work. In this case for sure it’s correct, but I wouldn’t be comfortable taking it as a universal rule in our current actual society.
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.
And use corporal punishment executed arbitrarily by everyone, because that’s what civilised people do and which has proven in various studies to be the most effective way of treating criminals. /s
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.