Archive for May, 2006
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Now even easier to report a theft
We now only require one box to fill in, and not even your email address. Or as usual you can use the form on the map page or email us here: .
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
Hope you had a great bank holiday
Unfortunately, some of you will have not. Some will have had their bags snatched or stolen, so please let us know here or email us at .
Otherwise, I hope you had a great time, whatever you were up to!
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Email problems – I may not have received your report!
I’m having a few problems with my email, so if you’ve sent me one on or after Tuesday 23rd May please send it me again to the address on the right. Particularly one email from Marion(???) entitled something like “2 years ago” has magically disappeared out of my Inbox along with several others. Please get [...]
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Very quick thank you
To Vanessa, Belinda, Emma, Laura, Tasmin, John, Tracy and six or seven people who didn’t leave their names. I will be replying to you and adding your details over the next few days, thank you very much and please keep them coming!
Report your thefts here.
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
How to prevent handbag theft
Our top 5 tips to minimise the risk of handbag theft. Some seem very basic; however they are easily forgotten after a few drinks:
Don’t leave your bag unattended. It’s easy just to leave it with a pile of coats or other people’s bags – however this makes it easier for a thief to pretend to [...]
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Sunday, May 21st, 2006
A list of all theft reports
You can now view a list of all handbag theft reports, with further details where available. To view this you can either click on the one you are interested in on the map page and click “Further details”, click on Reports in the top right hand corner, or simply click here. It makes interesting reading!
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
There are good people out there!
A great story from John:
I found a bag ditched in Arlington Road, Camden, last month. I’m assuming it was pinched off Camden High Street, as Arlington Rd is parallel to it.
It was a black woman’s handbag with a Swedish passport (tourist?) and house keys – no money, of course.
I called the police but they couldn’t [...]
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Saturday, May 13th, 2006
More bag thefts reported
Thank you for your bag theft reports so far, please continue to report them using the form on the map page. One unfortunate user reports:
Although the cards were stopped immediately the thief has been able to set up 6 direct debits on my bank account. My only revenge is that he must have to listen [...]
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
First crimes added
The first four handbag thefts in London have been added to the map, three being theft of entire bags and one being the theft of credit cards from a bag.
Please continue to send me details of any crimes, using the form on the map page. As much detail about the location as possible would be [...]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
Welcome
This site reports on the widespread problem of hand bag thefts across London and the rest of the UK. This is an “unreported” crime as it is not possible to get these statistics broken down by theft type from the Government.
Any reports received are then mapped here to provide an overview of where the crime [...]