Phone theft on Montreal’s Metro on the rise

Here's an idea: Only use your phone if you absolutely NEED to (how often does that really happen?), and don't use your phone just to amuse your bored little mind, advertising the fact that a) you have a nice shiny digital device, free for the taking, and b) you're stupid enough, or distracted enough to be an easy target.
Bored? try a book.... or a newspaper... or write your own....keep a sketchbook...lots of things to do without a phone. Don't see too many book thefts hitting the news!

I got my iphone snatched from my hand, while I was sitting in a bus, someone's hand came from outside and boom my phone was gone. If you know Montreal public buses, the windows barely open and still it happened. This is how it started I was in the bus late night going north on St Laurent boulevard, a group of black kids come into the bus. They see I have the phone in my hand reading something, at the light 2 of them get off. Go around, hide under the window. Wait for the light to about turn green and then grab it and run. Here is the lesson, if they dont see it they wont target you. If you see a bunch of kids coming in, just put it away. And if you think I am being a racist by saying they were black then go shoot yourself. After those 2 kids took off and the bus had already started try stopping that one. All the other black kids were almost cheering. Seemed very acceptable for them, I guess a result of a cry baby education ....

This sort of theft just doesn't happen in Montreal. If someone wants something bad enough rather than buying they'll steal it instead....this way they can resell it to someone else for cash. I guess they call this easy money....what a bunch of low lifes!

A friend had her phone taken out of her hands on a bus and she chased the culprit, tackled him to the ground, gave him a swift kick and a piece of her mind, got her phone back and got back on the bus! Yay!

I like watching all the addicted people playing with their silly little gadgets on their way
to work. They seem to be totally unaware of their surroundings and brainless for the
most part. I would love for all these devices to go kaput for a day, just to watch the
panic on their faces.

i just got a call last nite at 11:59pm and traced the call it was from alllameead aajadejeac alllabad...... so i called the # today and some woman that cant speak english said sorry we dialed the wron # i said GUESS WHAT IM CALLING THE COPS POLICE ON YOU

I predict that tasers will soon be big, too. Used on crowds of phone snatchers. We'll soon grudgingly acknowledge that the gun diplomacy of the wild west wasn't such a bad idea after all.

Until our Justice System get tough with these A-Holes.....it will just keep happening!!!!!!!

The phone companies need to be doing more here. Do they need to be legislated into not reactivating this stolen phones?

After the reports of phone thiefts on the subway or platform there should be emergency buttons located every few feet on the platform and near the exits on the subway cars. What if police routinely patrol the platform and security guards would ride in the subway cars. What if the cell networks have sales associates trained to be on the lookout for phones being returned to be reactivated and have the customers information on the database and if anything looks suspious they would activate the hold up alarm and police would be informed of a possible phone thieft and have the person who turned the phone in charged with thieft under five grand and alert the owner that the phone was recovered.

I find Montreal to be a very safe city to live in. Very little violence compared to other cities that I have been in. (Aside from the gangsters knocking one another off, once and a while)
I think it is this way because all the bad guys here are too busy scheming, scamming and stealing.

Comination phone and taser could be the answer to the thefts...

Always make sure that you install an automatic lock on your phone, and a tracking system. The police and phone company doesn't care about you losing your phone, but your friends might... If it takes having people put in intensive care more often, then maybe this will open the eyes of the police and maybe they will do something about it!

try to steal my phone

im not done with them
look the # up yourself and help me 204 219 3347 dont call it just use it as saying they called you.

I don't get the whole mobile device thing. It isn't necessary at all. I choose to not EVER own one. I have a basic land line telephone at home, and old dinosaur pc. People survived for years and years without it, and still can. So, if you are stupid enough to flash your goods in public, serves you right, it's a waste of money and you don't really need it anyways.

Can people no longer travel without carrying a phone with them? I am not condoning
theft, but on the other hand I have to wonder at the people who seemed to be glued
to these gadgets. Technology is great, but not when you become a slave to it.

Montreal is the second dirtiest, slimiest city in Canada.

Did they warn them Montreal is the crime capital of the world?

It's ALWAYS the dirty Third World non-white #$%$ doing these things! Kill 'em all! No non-whites in Canada!!!