Mobile Thief or Spider-Man?
It was an interesting read, both from the newspapers and on Twitter.
The snatching of a mobile phone from a moving train. The incident is
reported to be from Begusarai, in the Indian state of Bihar.
The whole sequence was recorded by one of the fellow passengers on the same
train.
According to reports, the train Patna-Katihar Intercity Express was
passing over the bridge Rajendra Sethu, across the river Ganga.
Passengers were eagerly filming from the train while crossing the
bridge.
Watch: A video has gone viral on social media of a thief hanging from a bridge and #snatching a train passenger's phone in Bihar's #Begusarai pic.twitter.com/l9JJcg16w6
— TOI Patna (@TOIPatna) June 10, 2022
One of the passengers was recording the scene, sitting near the door of
the train compartment.
His hand with the phone was slightly stretched out.
A thief who was hanging on the rail of the bridge and waiting for the right
moment snatched the mobile phone from the passenger who was on the moving
train.
Helpless and more amused than shocked the person who lost the phone was
more eager to see how the thief could have done this.
The thief had not put on his shirt, instead, he swapped his shirt for a
mask. The way the thief was perched on the bridge and his attire prompted
netizens to compare him to spider-man.
The video recording captured shows the entire episode of passengers
standing at the open door of the train compartment to the awe-struck
passenger complaining to his co-passenger that he lost his
phone.
1) Never travel standing by the open door of any means of transport.
2) Be vigilant when you are out and about.
3) Within a blink of an eye situations may change. Imagine the thief gripping your wrist instead of your phone. A miscalculated attempt could be a life-threatening situation.
4) Keep the phone security features enabled to secure the contents of the phone from falling into wrong hands.
