London's food couriers under attack - BBC London

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  • čas přidán 2. 10. 2018
  • We’ve all got used to having food delivered to our doorsteps at all hours of the day and night. But spare a thought for the delivery riders, because they’re frequently finding themselves the target of armed bike and moped gangs, who attempt to steal their delivery vehicles to use to commit further crimes. To reveal just how dangerous it can be out there, we armed some of these drivers with cameras. Chris Rogers has the story.
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  • @bbclondon
    @bbclondon  Před 5 lety +96

    Subscribe to BBC London:

  • @robertrobson251981
    @robertrobson251981 Před 3 lety +4

    Heres an idea. The police drive around dressed as food delivery drivers. Problem solved.

  • @xwilly5552
    @xwilly5552 Před 3 lety +6

    Stop blurring out their faces; if they're "grown" enough to commit the crime, public recognition shouldn't bother them one bit.

  • @HesBack420

    Hate what’s happening to the couriers, love the fact they all stick up for each other and have each others backs 💪

  • @ibra1200
    @ibra1200 Před 2 lety +74

    imagine being caught trying to steal and saying “i didn’t mean it”

  • @eggymayo9589
    @eggymayo9589 Před 3 lety +1

    Acid attacks should carry a life sentence.

  • @Remo_1997
    @Remo_1997 Před 5 lety +6

    Don't worry, the police are dealing with the people saying hurtful things online . . .

  • @Aaron0highly
    @Aaron0highly Před 2 lety +4

    "We pullout for our safety" wheyyyyhheyyy narrator knows whats up 🤣😏

  • @davidnorth3411
    @davidnorth3411 Před rokem +36

    Feel for these young men , I was delivering for a big chain pizza company that was freshly entering the Houston restuarant market some seven years ago, this was In a section of downtown , and the range of delivery came into some warehouse run down sections . You had the very rich on high rises ordering , to run down old motels with families living in them . One small pizzeria down the street lost a manager in a hold up , then one of our own was held at gun point in a robber . It was this that ended that location .

  • @booshting3520
    @booshting3520 Před 5 lety +2

    Meanwhile a man was just successfully prosecuted for teaching his dog to do a nazi salute as a joke.

  • @BlackWing117
    @BlackWing117 Před 5 lety +507

    It almost looks like the MILLIONS of cameras are not preventing theft and other criminal activitys...

  • @bradwilliams1691
    @bradwilliams1691 Před rokem +130

    One has to wonder just how many of these "food orders" are genuine or just a way of getting the deliverers into a certain area. It seems strange that there's always a gang waiting just around the corner.

  • @gabrieltomete4751
    @gabrieltomete4751 Před rokem +28

    This is an excellent example of why I support the jury system. While technically illegal it would be very difficult to convict a delivery driver who defended himself.

  • @edwardv7991
    @edwardv7991 Před 3 lety +913

    I was in a cafe in London carrying out my work with my laptop. I was sitting close to the entrance to enjoy some sunshine. The staff came and warned me not to sit there because you get robbers coming with their bikes and grabbing your laptop and fleeing. Welcome to London, a real Gotham city without a Bruce wayne.

  • @ChaosCrumpet24
    @ChaosCrumpet24 Před 3 lety +1

    I hate this world, you can't do anything without someone else trying to ruin it.

  • @snarko7489
    @snarko7489 Před rokem +4

    And a lot of people think that Eastern Europe is dangerous. I delivered food on bicycle for 2 years in an Eastern Europe country and also delivered many times past

  • @24chataway
    @24chataway Před 2 lety +17

    WARNING TO ALL UK OUTSIDERS

  • @fabianrudzewski9027
    @fabianrudzewski9027 Před 5 lety +771

    If some couriers start to hunt these thieves and "teach" them to stop stealing, the police will arrest the couriers...

  • @samwayne9000
    @samwayne9000 Před 5 lety +1

    EXPOSE THEIR FACES!!

  • @EES1994
    @EES1994 Před rokem +13

    Ive witnessed this too many times. They should be publicly made a mockery out of. Chained to a stage while we throw rotten fruits at them.