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London Phone Thefts Hit Record High with
over 116,000 Stolen Last Year

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Posted By: mc squared, 8/23/2025 6:06:50 PM

Mobile phone thefts in London soared to an all-time high last year, with nearly 330 being stolen every day on the streets of the British capital. According to Metropolitan Police figures seen by the Daily Mail, a record 116,656 mobile phone thefts were recorded in 2024, or around 13 per hour. This represented a rise of 1,300 over the previous year and more than a fifty per cent jump since 2017 when the figure stood at around 77,000. The dataset found that theives were more likely to target women, with 61,000 phone theft victims being women in 2024, compared to 48,000 male victims.

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The UK is beyond help. Phones are just the beginning.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Noj15 8/23/2025 6:54:00 PM (No. 1994550)
We've got the same problem here, it's called Walmart Bllack Fatigue...
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Reply 2 - Posted by: NorthernDog 8/23/2025 7:37:58 PM (No. 1994557)
The biggest problem is people chatting on their cell phones are oblivious to everything going on around them. The thieves are probably surprised how easy it is to sneak up on the victim.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Newtsche 8/23/2025 7:44:07 PM (No. 1994562)
Cheeky
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Anaverageguy 8/23/2025 8:01:14 PM (No. 1994566)
It's the Irish ... It's always the Irish 😎.../s
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Reply 5 - Posted by: chumley 8/23/2025 8:31:33 PM (No. 1994580)
What do they expect? When the Brit police will not investigate any crime committed by a dark person but will prosecute anyone defending themselves or their property, criminals have no incentive to obey the law. Always thought I might like to visit there...until this foreign invasion. Now I wouldn't go if it was across the street.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: stablemoney 8/23/2025 8:38:40 PM (No. 1994582)
I have written Great Britain off as a lost cause. Their living standards have dropped to 65% of ours, and falling fast. The productive will emigrate to America.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JHHolliday 8/23/2025 11:01:38 PM (No. 1994607)
Sad. I have made a few trips to both Ireland and Scotland for golf. Most ordinary citizens are nice people but there seems to be a growing number who resent Americans. Maybe it's spite or maybe it's envy but I am never going back. We had dinner some years ago with our Scottish travel agent. This was a few days after the Glasgow attempted bombing by two Muslim loons. The agent said, "I don't understand why they would bomb us, we were against the Iraq War". I told him that those people didn't care. That we are infidels and subject to murder by the jihadists, all of us. He seemed to be shocked. They are badly naive about the danger. It will only get worse as the Mohammedans continue to be allowed to flood into their country. Pure foolishness and don't criticize that religion or they will charge you for simply speaking out. It's hard to believe that this is the country who fought to the death against Hitler and the Nazis.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: bighambone 8/24/2025 12:33:55 AM (No. 1994619)
It’s funny that while the highly disciplined and organized Nazi Germany Army could not find a way to invade the UK by crossing the English Channel, but now a highly disorganized and generally uneducated massive Islamic rabble from Africa and the Middle East apparently find it relatively easy to invade the UK in huge numbers by simply crossing the English Channel in small boats and upon arriving claim that they are asylum seekers, against who the UK with an extremely “woke” government does not have any defense. No doubt as the Islamist population in the UK continues to grow there will be calls for the Christian Crosses displayed on the England and Union flags to be replaced by the Islamic Star and Crescent and the country be reorganized as a Islamic Caliphate as has been done in other places that have been flooded with Muslims. It appears that there is a back story to what is going on in the UK, and that is the huge business interests that the UK has established throughout the Islamic World that the rich in the UK are afraid will be greatly disrupted if the UK actually takes effective action to secure its borders and to deport the large numbers of African and Middle East origin Muslims who have entered and are continuing to enter the UK as what they call irregular migrants (illegal aliens). The question is are those business interests powerful enough to cause the UK to commit national suicide?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: greyseal 8/24/2025 7:44:43 AM (No. 1994670)
They are already banning and removing the St. George flag in London and Muslim-controlled councils in the UK when patriots hang them up. People are being jailed for speaking out against the application of two-tiered justice in the country. School systems are offering students choices of only halal foods for lunch. I suspect that the UK is soon to fall without a shot being fired. Now that there are Muslims in positions of power in the major cities and in the UK government, all they need are bodies to begin the jihad. Read D.C. Alden's "The Horse at the Gates" for a good description of what life under Islamic rule might be like for what remains of the non-Muslim population in the UK. greyseal
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Reply 10 - Posted by: paral04 8/24/2025 8:45:14 AM (No. 1994701)
Where do these phones end up? It would be interesting to find out where these stolen phones are being sent.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: banal_resentive 8/24/2025 9:46:27 AM (No. 1994724)
The Brits need to take a lesson from the Mossad. Fake, explosive phones. Lots of thieving hands blown off. Ironically culturally appropriate punishment for moslem thieves.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Mushroom 8/24/2025 9:56:44 AM (No. 1994733)
Don't IMEI codes make cell phones "useless" anymore?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Strike3 8/24/2025 10:31:45 AM (No. 1994745)
How do you like your muslim brothers now?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: MickTurn 8/24/2025 11:33:28 AM (No. 1994779)
Remember what the Israelis did with the Terrorists phones.........Wait For It!
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Foghorn 8/24/2025 11:53:56 AM (No. 1994786)
This could be action by the terrorist organizations and Iranian military so they can replace cell phones with bombs implanted in them by the Israelites. Of course there are thieves that will ride that pony because they can.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Vaquero45 8/24/2025 12:02:18 PM (No. 1994790)
I’m going on my first trip to England in a couple of weeks, and we’ll be in London for a few days. I’ve already told my wife this may be our last trip to Europe, at least for a while. They seem to be hell-bent on speeding towards socialism and abandoning their values, restricting speech and catering to Muslims and criminals. I’m sure that once we leave London, things will improve; but, this will be interesting to see.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: DVC 8/24/2025 6:58:43 PM (No. 1994939)
Invite in hundreds of thousands of third world scum.....and you get third world scum behavior.....what a shocker. Not.
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