Everybody must read this, you would not think that you could get ripped off this way

[adrianh]

An adult instructs a seven year old to steal a cellphone out of an open handbag in Norwood. She then watches the kid do it. All caught on CCTV. I wonder if this will make it into the SA media

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...struction.html

[Dave S]

Life in Africa... What are the chances that they will ever be brought to book?

[IanF]

That is a scary video. When I see what precautions people don't take

I always try to put my laptop in the boot and my wife and kids always put there handbags in the boot. I consoled a woman a few years ago who had a smash grab right next to me on a highway off ramp she had just been paid and cashed her first paycheck in months with the money in her handbag behind the passenger seat. A druggie looking guy smashed the window grabbed the bag and ran off into the open veld before any of us knew what had happened.

The thing is sometimes with the punishment the thief is better off in jail than outside so it is not punishment.

[wynn]

I always try to put my laptop in the boot.

A simple device most people can make themselves is to lift the carpet on the floor of the passenger seat and build a simple false floor with a locking trapdoor with enough space to put your laptop in so it can't be seen from outside the car, then relay the carpet over this!!

[pmbguy]

A simple device most people can make themselves is to lift the carpet on the floor of the passenger seat and build a simple false floor with a locking trapdoor with enough space to put your laptop in so it can't be seen from outside the car, then relay the carpet over this!!

I have something similar, mine is a secret place under the dashboard. I only really use it going to Gangsters Paradise though, never in Natal though because we chill here

[ians]

I don't know why people don't have a compartment above your head in the middle of the vehicle then they can see I, similar to what I have in the caddy van.

[adrianh]

I just wonder whether this will show up in the SA media. I'm going to post it all over Facebook to make sure that people are aware of it

[pmbguy]

I feel for the 7 year old. Her prospects in life have been tainted so early. That mother deserves a good hiding.

I wonder if SA mainstream media will really give it any attention since it is politically incorrect to do so...

[adrianh]

I doubt it, that is why I am plastering it all over Facebook

[Didditmiself]

I doubt it, that is why I am plastering it all over Facebook

Well it's in todays' (5th October) edition of the Citizen. So yes it has made at least one newspaper. Maybe others too which I've not yet read.