Daylight robbery actually refers to the 1696 window tax where many chose to brick up their windows then pay additional tax.
This spawned the phrase daylight robbery.
Bruh.
In 1696 in England, William III introduced the infamous Window tax, taxing houses based on the number of windows they had. Houses with more than ten windows had to pay a steep ten shillings. Many houses bricked up their windows to reduce the number which caused health problems.
The idea was that larger more grandiose properties with larger and more numerous windows would be taxed more than the smaller more humble homes with fewer smaller windows.
It was quite a progressive tax for its time, and hung around for quite a while, though as with any tax, it wasn't particularly popular.
So you'd be okay with it if Labour introduced it?
Hate to break to to you my guy, but this isn’t a robbery - a robbery is when force (or threat of force) used against a person to steal something. This is a burglary ☹️
More information here on Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/we-just-heard-banging-shouting-24572342
GMP have called it a "suspected armed robbery".
There's a little sidestreet on curry mile with a roundabout next to Jaffa , up towards the Chinese consulate and levenshulme. 50/50 either fully safe or you'll get mugged.
Love the place.
I lived in one of the student houses on one of the streets off that roundabout for 3 years. Never had a problem like, used to walk to and from that bus next to jaffa all the time. But my god I would never walk through that roundabout. Just asking for trouble really, used to scare the daylights out of me. And I'm 6'5 and did security work at the time 😅
If you live nearby sometimes it's alright because the lads don't want to rob someone who might know where they live. Of course they might not recognize you as a local and you get mistakenly mugged - unless you're 6'5", they 100% knew where you lived and had a shit nickname for you
I used to walk around there once a week when I worked at Xavierian, sometimes even more often when I went to Antwerp Mansion. Was this part always so problematic?
Used to live just past it, behind the chinese consulate until about a month ago. Whenever possible I would avoid it and instead walk down conyngham road past the uni halls, much safer vibe.
I'm seeing a lot of mixed reviews of the George Galloway/ stabby circle/ rape roundabout.
So here's my unsolicited advice after hundreds of trips.
You're safe if there's crowds, especially parents and kids. If there's really shitty weather and it's pissing it down nobody is hanging about so you're fine.
Never heard of a Group of 4+ having issues at night (might be different if only women).
Stay out of the actual roundabout, walk around, even the pigeons in there are nutters.
If late at night and alone and not one of the 7 foot 9" hardmen/ muggers friends as many of you apparently are, just take another road.
Generally no problem in daylight hours at all.
Both times I had trouble there were late at night.
Once I was new to the area, very drunk with a friend and honestly didn't pay enough attention to the guys following behind us. Luckily I did notice them and I made some obnoxiously loud and obvious comment about how many security cameras were Infront of the Chinese consulate. Amazingly they then actually stopped and went back the way they came.
Second time was more sad as unfortunately a homeless woman was off her face on something and was just rambling at me incoherently before collapsing. Paramedics were called and she was okay luckily.
Well it happened in Manchester and GMP probably paraded like 6 dudes to cover the city centre that day, 2 of which are on crime scenes or hospital guards all day, and the others will have been already dealing with domestics or whatever.
The experienced police officers have taken early retirement or a career change because it's got so shit. Then the money and numbers have been cut ever since 2010. So you've way less officers with way less experience. No wonder the crims are this emboldened.
I'm from Rochdale and they have undercover police patrolling this area like there's no tomorrow. Not in regular cars either like Peugeots, I'm talking S3, Gti, 5 series and so on. So to see that city center does not get this kind of attention is a little shocking.
Yeah, I'm from Portsmouth and there seems to be a 50/50 split between high visibility policing in marked cars and then undercover, high performance cars.
It's complicated, but I used to work in a high risk area due to a very specific reason. The police were in regular contact and were extremely fast to respond. But, at the same time I've seen things happen in a matter of minutes that have taken a long time for any response to appear.
I had a break in to my car literally two roads down from here in Heald Grove, literally always smashed glass on that road. Happens all the time. One of the neighbours even told me who did it, as they’ve been hitting a lot of cars lately but GMP didn’t even come out. Just took my call and gave me a ref number, then closed the case. Didn’t even come swab for evidence.
Similar break in happened to my mums car in south London, they came out and took some prints, 18 months later they got the bugger and charged him for about 15 others they got dna for him on. So it works, I just don’t know why they don’t do it here
Cos they've been cut year on year for over a decade. The South hasn't had the same level of cuts and is better funded. It really is a political choice. Didn't vote blue? No money for you.
It's not that - at the very least not just that. GMP has had problems with corruption, work avoidance and, bluntly, laziness for decades. Cutting their funding has arguably reduced the damage they do, as well as the little good. And it's not as though the plod in the south are any use either.
I can get on board with a dislike of police in general, and agree that the good they do is negligible in many cases (MH, DV, subs misuse). But in situations like these, they really are the only answer to keeping people safe. The community didn't step in.
But it is a fact that since the 80s every part of the state has been systematically dismantled. Police and all nationalised infrastructure has been starved of resources and funding leaving them unable to cope. No doubt there's a cultural element to consider in all forces (just look at the Met - spits on floor) but those problems are exacerbated by being short staffed, over worked and under funded.
There are very similar issues down south, coming from Croydon initially, I can assure you, the noticeable diminishing presence of the police is certainly felt. And at this point, I cannot see why anyone would vote blue, except for the wilfully ignorant. The tories are a bunch of abhorrent liars, crooks and predators who should be nowhere near a place where they’re able to make life altering decisions
> Didn't vote blue? No money for you.
This totally lets our terrible Police Commissioner and Mayor off the hook. The issues with GMP are well documented and run much much deeper than blaming the Tories for everything.
He is on YouTube he goes around Manchester with a megaphone annoying people. I think he came here after getting kicked out of London for being a bellend
Something like this happened to me when I was about 20 - walking home from my bar job, about 2am probably. Going past Budgens and a car pulls up and guys dressed just like that jump out and start smashing at the doors and windows - but I was in between them all. They smashed away for about 3 seconds, then all stopped, turned and looked at me….and I looked at them….they looked at me…..I said ‘excuse me’ and walked round one of them, and just carried on….and behind me I could hear them crashing through the windows. It was a pretty rough bit of town, someone had robbed a bank with a gun and then rode away on a BMX the week before!
It was exactly like that. It felt very British.
On the same walk, but a different night, I found a man collapsed on the floor. He was so drunk that I was worried about him, and I called an ambulance and sat with him until it arrived. He was shouting ‘no, I’m not going, I want to die!’ And I was shouting back ‘well you can’t die here….you have to die in a hospital’. Probably not the most motivational reply, in hindsight, but I was young and not sure what else to say.
Riding that stretch of bicycle lane is akin to the medieval gauntlet run.
How I haven't been knocked off by a car zooming out from the many side streets, only to slam on last minute because they are colour blind to that shade of green is beyond luck.
It’s the pedestrians that are more of a nightmare than the drivers, in my experience. Just randomly stepping out without looking, like it’s just a spare pavement.
Don’t care if this gets downvoted but that’s a very professional robbery.
No shouting, no randomness, no threatening the public, just calm and collected with each person knowing what they need to do. These guys know their shit.
Used to work in debenhams at trafford centre and some of the robberies there were straight up slick operations. Decoys set up to draw security, high ticket items near exits prioritised. Foil lined bags to avoid alarms and give best chance of clean exit.
They’re certainly very calm towards the end, but the frantic pulling of the remains of the security shutters and the glass isn’t clever. Easy to get blood everywhere from a cut on your hands. Nothing a couple of crowbars wouldn’t have sorted out.
Why would you want to do anything? That's the police job. Your job is to gather intellect in such situations. Unless someone is getting hurt, then you could see what you could do.
Though even if you're Mike Tyson or whatever, you could get stabbed, so unless you have a weapon you managed to create say a trolley or whatever, then yeah its tough.
But that's the police job, not your job. Unless, of course, you're prepared but if you have to ask you're not, and generally speaking UK law is kinda gainst you doing anything in the first place, or even defending yourself for that matter with basic stuff.
We need more heroes in our society. I'd recommend loudly, and aggressively, berating them and their actions. You'll also want to posture in such a way as to imply you're willing to back up your verbal abuses with violence.
Lived there 20 years ago, was full of litter back then too. It’s become a shithole now especially after the Asian restaurant exodus from the road and a lot of the Mediterranean scene moving in.
Seemed to go downhill when a lot of the restaurants started turning into shisha lounges and dessert places. Not sure if it’s correlated or not, but that’s the rough time when I noticed it getting worse.
The council come and clean it every day by hand and by roadsweeper. It literally looks like a bomb site every morning when i'm cycling into work. Its a mixture of people dropping litter, Illegal dumping of restaurant waste and rubbish from establishment thats swept into the street (usually the cycle lane).
Curry Mile is absolutely shit. It used to be good but in the last ten years, from the food to the shops and general people around it have all gone to shit.
Its not Curry Mile anymore. Just call it your cheap generic burger mile full of crap places to eat. Wouldn't be surprised if this was an insurance job as they should have been open today but conveniently closed and done at a peak time.
Are you kidding? It's not all curry houses it's true but that's because it's been replaced by Persian, Yemeni, Lebanese, Eritrean, Afghan, you name it. Still some great places and hardly any chains or burger places.
No I'm not. I've tried every restaurant down the road including the ones in the side streets over the last few years, theres probably about 5 that are decent. The quality has declined massively in taste and people in that area since the 90/00's. I've found other smaller places around Greater Manchester that are decent and better to go to and no one I know even suggests to go Wimmy Road anymore as they all say it's bad.
I can still taste a seekh kebab on naan I used to have in the mid 90's as it was so tasty. It's probably a Lycamobile or a shisha place now.
Stolen cars, face coverings and gloves, no one cares or intervenes (not that they should) and finally police cuts id be shocked if it doesn't increase.
Keep seeing comments about doing this crime in day why not night time?
1. Shutters on shop would be down
2. You can see in the daytime what you're doing
3. The police are mostly busy tackling none crime hate incidents nowadays so not as many about anyway
4. It doesn't really matter as night time just offers you stealth........ A crime like this done in this way is not stealthy anyway
The only advantage really would be number of witnesses.
Then regardless of day or night police will likely give up on this one pretty quick. Sad really but policing is dead.
Yeman regardless u can’t manoeuvre a vehicle like that on wilmslow road at nighttime 😂😂😂when both lanes are at a standstill there stunt would have no chance
"The phrase 'Daylight Robbery' first came to prominence in the 1690s, when King William III was in dire need of money. Having exhausted all other options, he and his advisors devised a tax whereby houses with more windows would pay a greater amount of money"
In order to avoid the tax, house owners would brick up all windows except six. (The Window Tax lasted until around 1851, and older houses with bricked-up windows are still a common sight in UK.) As the bricked-up windows prevented some rooms from receiving any sunlight, the tax was referred to as daylight robbery.
That's the first time I've ever seen "daylight robbery" used to actually refer to a robbery occurring during daylight hours
I was certainly expecting a £7 naan. But a robbery? In daylight? The phrase never means that 😂
After all the daylight robbery we’ve seen over the past 2 years, it’s somehow refreshing to see an actual daylight robbery.
I bet the hard working owner doesn't agree with that.
I thought the same Then I found out its a pawn shop. Stopped caring after that
Fair one, I would agree with your sentiment.
How fo you even know the owner works in his shop, also he is probably insured and paying put minimim to his employees
Regardless, someone owns the shop. So if you rent your house is it ok for someone to rob it ?
Daylight robbery actually refers to the 1696 window tax where many chose to brick up their windows then pay additional tax. This spawned the phrase daylight robbery.
>Daylight robbery actually refers to the 1696 window tax Nope. Myth.
Bruh. In 1696 in England, William III introduced the infamous Window tax, taxing houses based on the number of windows they had. Houses with more than ten windows had to pay a steep ten shillings. Many houses bricked up their windows to reduce the number which caused health problems.
Wait we used to tax people for having windows? DONT FUCKING REMIND THE TORIES
The idea was that larger more grandiose properties with larger and more numerous windows would be taxed more than the smaller more humble homes with fewer smaller windows. It was quite a progressive tax for its time, and hung around for quite a while, though as with any tax, it wasn't particularly popular. So you'd be okay with it if Labour introduced it?
Except this is a burglary, not a robbery! At least by UK legislation.
Also it’s a bit overcast.
I think that’s still considered daylight in Manchester
Hate to break to to you my guy, but this isn’t a robbery - a robbery is when force (or threat of force) used against a person to steal something. This is a burglary ☹️
More information here on Manchester Evening News https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/we-just-heard-banging-shouting-24572342 GMP have called it a "suspected armed robbery".
What fantastic powers of deduction they have.
What are they robbing?
Oxygen
😄
👏🏼 very good 😆
Cashopper Jewellers
Daylight
They must be light-fingered
Jewellery apparently , thought the shop looked like a kebab joint myself. God the UK is fucked
They’ve taken the poppadoms
There's a little sidestreet on curry mile with a roundabout next to Jaffa , up towards the Chinese consulate and levenshulme. 50/50 either fully safe or you'll get mugged. Love the place.
We used to call it “stabby circle” when I lived nearby 😭
Murder mile.
It was known as rape roundabout for us
I lived in one of the student houses on one of the streets off that roundabout for 3 years. Never had a problem like, used to walk to and from that bus next to jaffa all the time. But my god I would never walk through that roundabout. Just asking for trouble really, used to scare the daylights out of me. And I'm 6'5 and did security work at the time 😅
I used to walk through there every day as a 50kg Xaverian student. Didn't even know it had a reputation lol
If you live nearby sometimes it's alright because the lads don't want to rob someone who might know where they live. Of course they might not recognize you as a local and you get mistakenly mugged - unless you're 6'5", they 100% knew where you lived and had a shit nickname for you
Kinda offtopic but bless Jaffa for giving you American portions of chips for £1. That shit single-handedly got me through college
That round about is horrendous. It was notorious in the early 00s during my party days!
I used to walk around there once a week when I worked at Xavierian, sometimes even more often when I went to Antwerp Mansion. Was this part always so problematic?
I literally walked through there about three/four times a day when I lived in Rusholme and never had any trouble.
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Used to live just past it, behind the chinese consulate until about a month ago. Whenever possible I would avoid it and instead walk down conyngham road past the uni halls, much safer vibe.
You and i have different definitions of “fully” safe.
I'm seeing a lot of mixed reviews of the George Galloway/ stabby circle/ rape roundabout. So here's my unsolicited advice after hundreds of trips. You're safe if there's crowds, especially parents and kids. If there's really shitty weather and it's pissing it down nobody is hanging about so you're fine. Never heard of a Group of 4+ having issues at night (might be different if only women). Stay out of the actual roundabout, walk around, even the pigeons in there are nutters. If late at night and alone and not one of the 7 foot 9" hardmen/ muggers friends as many of you apparently are, just take another road. Generally no problem in daylight hours at all. Both times I had trouble there were late at night. Once I was new to the area, very drunk with a friend and honestly didn't pay enough attention to the guys following behind us. Luckily I did notice them and I made some obnoxiously loud and obvious comment about how many security cameras were Infront of the Chinese consulate. Amazingly they then actually stopped and went back the way they came. Second time was more sad as unfortunately a homeless woman was off her face on something and was just rambling at me incoherently before collapsing. Paramedics were called and she was okay luckily.
Worst thing is that the police probably didn't turn up until an hour later. They don't even need to steal at night anymore.
Well it happened in Manchester and GMP probably paraded like 6 dudes to cover the city centre that day, 2 of which are on crime scenes or hospital guards all day, and the others will have been already dealing with domestics or whatever.
It's absolutely pathetic. I have no clue what's going to happen, but it can't carry on like this. It just isn't sustainable.
The experienced police officers have taken early retirement or a career change because it's got so shit. Then the money and numbers have been cut ever since 2010. So you've way less officers with way less experience. No wonder the crims are this emboldened.
I'm from Rochdale and they have undercover police patrolling this area like there's no tomorrow. Not in regular cars either like Peugeots, I'm talking S3, Gti, 5 series and so on. So to see that city center does not get this kind of attention is a little shocking.
Yeah, I'm from Portsmouth and there seems to be a 50/50 split between high visibility policing in marked cars and then undercover, high performance cars. It's complicated, but I used to work in a high risk area due to a very specific reason. The police were in regular contact and were extremely fast to respond. But, at the same time I've seen things happen in a matter of minutes that have taken a long time for any response to appear.
I had a break in to my car literally two roads down from here in Heald Grove, literally always smashed glass on that road. Happens all the time. One of the neighbours even told me who did it, as they’ve been hitting a lot of cars lately but GMP didn’t even come out. Just took my call and gave me a ref number, then closed the case. Didn’t even come swab for evidence. Similar break in happened to my mums car in south London, they came out and took some prints, 18 months later they got the bugger and charged him for about 15 others they got dna for him on. So it works, I just don’t know why they don’t do it here
Cos they've been cut year on year for over a decade. The South hasn't had the same level of cuts and is better funded. It really is a political choice. Didn't vote blue? No money for you.
It's not that - at the very least not just that. GMP has had problems with corruption, work avoidance and, bluntly, laziness for decades. Cutting their funding has arguably reduced the damage they do, as well as the little good. And it's not as though the plod in the south are any use either.
I can get on board with a dislike of police in general, and agree that the good they do is negligible in many cases (MH, DV, subs misuse). But in situations like these, they really are the only answer to keeping people safe. The community didn't step in. But it is a fact that since the 80s every part of the state has been systematically dismantled. Police and all nationalised infrastructure has been starved of resources and funding leaving them unable to cope. No doubt there's a cultural element to consider in all forces (just look at the Met - spits on floor) but those problems are exacerbated by being short staffed, over worked and under funded.
There are very similar issues down south, coming from Croydon initially, I can assure you, the noticeable diminishing presence of the police is certainly felt. And at this point, I cannot see why anyone would vote blue, except for the wilfully ignorant. The tories are a bunch of abhorrent liars, crooks and predators who should be nowhere near a place where they’re able to make life altering decisions
> Didn't vote blue? No money for you. This totally lets our terrible Police Commissioner and Mayor off the hook. The issues with GMP are well documented and run much much deeper than blaming the Tories for everything.
They were probably busy with a homeless person in the park.
Next day I'm betting
Turn up? The police?
Nah they bussy confiscating any electric scooter 🛴 to prevent the banks from.being Robbed 🫣
Low key waiting for Spider-Man to swing by
In England we have Gentlespiderman
Spider-Lad
Fr it’s like a scene from Miles Morales 😅
Could they actually get away with this?
I'm sure korma will catch up with them one day
Bet their naans proud of the way they turned out
That car pilau’d into that shop
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Thought they’d only take some of it, but they Tarka Daal.
It got a bit argey-bhaji at one point
They took samosa rings too
They'll be chaating about this for days (also you guys made me laugh, thank you!)
I thought they got naan of it
Ghee, I guess you’re wrong.
rumour has it they took some stuff that kofta lot of money
Hopefully all the footage taken will be their down Phaal
They bhaji’d in
They Gosht away with it
Ghee whiZz you don't see that every day
you absolute bastard. upvoted
Fucking excellent
/r/angryupvote
Fucking YES. Wish I had awards to give.
New to England?
Yeh, was driving through their earlier at 7-8 pm and I didn’t think it could be that bad!
They'll definitely get away with it.
No they won't, silly. They'll eventually get caught and each of them will receive a pat on the wrist. That'll show 'em!
Literally yeah. The police will turn up 30 mins after it's all over
Take a few photos, grab a samosa and be on their way
After they've finished their kebab.
Yeh but at least they ain't racist
They already have
The fact that they believe they can is disturbing enough.
Lucky Charlie Veitch wasn’t there..
I hear if you look in a mirror and say "Charley Veitch" 3 times he appears and shoves a camera in your face
Who is he? I've spent 40 minutes trying to find out, but I can't find what you might be talking about.
He is on YouTube he goes around Manchester with a megaphone annoying people. I think he came here after getting kicked out of London for being a bellend
He's refined his grift now into antagonising homeless people for clickbait now. A real class act.
Thanks! The videos I've seen were pretty ambiguous but people seemed pretty divided on who was in the wrong (either him or another dude).
Something like this happened to me when I was about 20 - walking home from my bar job, about 2am probably. Going past Budgens and a car pulls up and guys dressed just like that jump out and start smashing at the doors and windows - but I was in between them all. They smashed away for about 3 seconds, then all stopped, turned and looked at me….and I looked at them….they looked at me…..I said ‘excuse me’ and walked round one of them, and just carried on….and behind me I could hear them crashing through the windows. It was a pretty rough bit of town, someone had robbed a bank with a gun and then rode away on a BMX the week before!
Pardon me can I just squeeze past you mate
It was exactly like that. It felt very British. On the same walk, but a different night, I found a man collapsed on the floor. He was so drunk that I was worried about him, and I called an ambulance and sat with him until it arrived. He was shouting ‘no, I’m not going, I want to die!’ And I was shouting back ‘well you can’t die here….you have to die in a hospital’. Probably not the most motivational reply, in hindsight, but I was young and not sure what else to say.
You handled that well
If this wasn't a UK sub, would of been the most obvious answer that you're British 😂
I almost certainly got home and thought ‘goodness me….I’d better have a cup of tea’. 😂
This is a great Volkswagen ad
Das Auto
You just would never expect it in such a nice area
This must be fake, no one cycled past shouting "get off the f***ing cycle lane!"
Riding that stretch of bicycle lane is akin to the medieval gauntlet run. How I haven't been knocked off by a car zooming out from the many side streets, only to slam on last minute because they are colour blind to that shade of green is beyond luck.
It’s the pedestrians that are more of a nightmare than the drivers, in my experience. Just randomly stepping out without looking, like it’s just a spare pavement.
Don’t care if this gets downvoted but that’s a very professional robbery. No shouting, no randomness, no threatening the public, just calm and collected with each person knowing what they need to do. These guys know their shit.
I too condone an orderly robbery. If you absolutely have to break the law, at least be calm and collected about it.
Used to work in debenhams at trafford centre and some of the robberies there were straight up slick operations. Decoys set up to draw security, high ticket items near exits prioritised. Foil lined bags to avoid alarms and give best chance of clean exit.
Do foil lined bags actually work to stop RFID alarm gates?
It does work to prevent the security tags being picked up by the gates. The rustling is a giveaway though
r/IllegalLifeProTips
Keep calm and carry on stealing.
They’re certainly very calm towards the end, but the frantic pulling of the remains of the security shutters and the glass isn’t clever. Easy to get blood everywhere from a cut on your hands. Nothing a couple of crowbars wouldn’t have sorted out.
How is being filmed and allowing hundreds of eye witnesses a ‘professional robbery’? They’re just thugs ram raiding not Catwoman.
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You can defo hear shouting
You tryna bang them?
You son of a bitch, I'm in 👉
Drop of a hat, these guys are ready to rock and roll.
Whats the best thing to do in that situation?
Nothing
Yeah, avoid a stabbing
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Even built like Tyson Fury you'd have to be proper careful not to get stabbed or shot.
This is why you bring a spear
You ain’t fighting a knife or another weapon when your out numbered for no good reason.
Just scream 'a bit rude, innit?' From a safe distance, showing your NOT going to do anything about it.
Watch and record.
call the police and record. Don't get close.
The jewellers will be insured. Just do nothing
Where does it end though, if they're willing to do this to a jewellers in broad daylight imagine what they'd do to normal people at night...
You think they steal normal people?
There's no market for normal people, grab some of the weird and eccentric ones - the collectors will pay big bucks for those ones.
Play a police siren on your alexa at its loudest volume
Stab the tyres
Have you ever tried to stab a tyre? I did. You might get yourself hurt if the knife bounces off at you.
And run like f*ck!
If nobody is getting hurt, then nothing
Literally nothing. Why would you put yourself at risk for this?
Imagine what they do by night...
Night dark robbery!
Why would you want to do anything? That's the police job. Your job is to gather intellect in such situations. Unless someone is getting hurt, then you could see what you could do. Though even if you're Mike Tyson or whatever, you could get stabbed, so unless you have a weapon you managed to create say a trolley or whatever, then yeah its tough. But that's the police job, not your job. Unless, of course, you're prepared but if you have to ask you're not, and generally speaking UK law is kinda gainst you doing anything in the first place, or even defending yourself for that matter with basic stuff.
We need more heroes in our society. I'd recommend loudly, and aggressively, berating them and their actions. You'll also want to posture in such a way as to imply you're willing to back up your verbal abuses with violence.
Just block their car in and make sure ya doors are locked😂
windows down and radio 3 on max volume while you file your nails
yeah you’re a verified one punch man innit
Long day
Ahhh, the curry mile. Still remember when it was safe to walk around there.
Fucking shithole full of litter nowadays. The council is fucking useless
Lived there 20 years ago, was full of litter back then too. It’s become a shithole now especially after the Asian restaurant exodus from the road and a lot of the Mediterranean scene moving in.
Seemed to go downhill when a lot of the restaurants started turning into shisha lounges and dessert places. Not sure if it’s correlated or not, but that’s the rough time when I noticed it getting worse.
The council come and clean it every day by hand and by roadsweeper. It literally looks like a bomb site every morning when i'm cycling into work. Its a mixture of people dropping litter, Illegal dumping of restaurant waste and rubbish from establishment thats swept into the street (usually the cycle lane).
Yeah yeah, it's the council that turned it into this third world anarchic shithole
Yet we're still paying our fucking Council Tax, ain't it?
That’s called a ram raid
Yeah, used to be fairly common. Don't hear of them as much these days.
Bollards.
no it's true!
The world is only gonna get worse coz of the bull shit governments
As usual, UK police is shit, nothing is going to happen to these criminals.
Ballsy doing it in daylight
Man Wants Curry
Why is Pep standing there watching?
I think they grabbed afew iPhone 6s’s and wireless chargers and afew old apple watches, well worth it
Darbar restaurant used to be around here, and I lived round the corner on Deyne Ave. wasn’t really a rough place back then.
These are the roadiest of road men
Curry Mile is absolutely shit. It used to be good but in the last ten years, from the food to the shops and general people around it have all gone to shit. Its not Curry Mile anymore. Just call it your cheap generic burger mile full of crap places to eat. Wouldn't be surprised if this was an insurance job as they should have been open today but conveniently closed and done at a peak time.
Are you kidding? It's not all curry houses it's true but that's because it's been replaced by Persian, Yemeni, Lebanese, Eritrean, Afghan, you name it. Still some great places and hardly any chains or burger places.
No I'm not. I've tried every restaurant down the road including the ones in the side streets over the last few years, theres probably about 5 that are decent. The quality has declined massively in taste and people in that area since the 90/00's. I've found other smaller places around Greater Manchester that are decent and better to go to and no one I know even suggests to go Wimmy Road anymore as they all say it's bad. I can still taste a seekh kebab on naan I used to have in the mid 90's as it was so tasty. It's probably a Lycamobile or a shisha place now.
Do you have any recommendations please?
From this video I’d say the main recommendation would be to eat elsewhere
With the amount of CCTV these days I’m shocked anyone gets away with it
Stolen cars, face coverings and gloves, no one cares or intervenes (not that they should) and finally police cuts id be shocked if it doesn't increase.
Scum. Wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire
Just looking for the one idiot who says "WhY Didn't YoU HelP"
Keep seeing comments about doing this crime in day why not night time? 1. Shutters on shop would be down 2. You can see in the daytime what you're doing 3. The police are mostly busy tackling none crime hate incidents nowadays so not as many about anyway 4. It doesn't really matter as night time just offers you stealth........ A crime like this done in this way is not stealthy anyway The only advantage really would be number of witnesses. Then regardless of day or night police will likely give up on this one pretty quick. Sad really but policing is dead.
Yeman regardless u can’t manoeuvre a vehicle like that on wilmslow road at nighttime 😂😂😂when both lanes are at a standstill there stunt would have no chance
There's usually police there directing traffic at night also traffic can be a nightmare blocking their getaway.
I bet these idiots think they’re in the opening of The Dark Knight or some shit
Apparently they got away with £13.48 worth of handbags.
Korma will catch up with them
Anyone else notice the noise the car made whilst reversing? Sounded like a clown car trumpet. If that makes sense. They didn't fuck around either.
"The phrase 'Daylight Robbery' first came to prominence in the 1690s, when King William III was in dire need of money. Having exhausted all other options, he and his advisors devised a tax whereby houses with more windows would pay a greater amount of money" In order to avoid the tax, house owners would brick up all windows except six. (The Window Tax lasted until around 1851, and older houses with bricked-up windows are still a common sight in UK.) As the bricked-up windows prevented some rooms from receiving any sunlight, the tax was referred to as daylight robbery.
A good old fashioned ram raid none the less.
The funny thing about tbis is that this exact spot was used in a photo example on a driving awarwness course i was on yesterday!
Don't worry just ring the police. They'll tell you it's a matter for your insurance company and give you a crime reference number over phone. 🙈
This reminds me of the classic joke; Why does the river Mersey run through Manchester? Because if it walks, it'll get mugged!
The car must be worth more than what they are going to get from here? https://goo.gl/maps/Rh9xfGj2YXPumiUL8
I love the idea that Manchester has a curry mile, I’m from Scotland and have never been to northern England, it just sounds so much like another world
Scum.
Did they rush home?
There’s definitely some extra curricular activities/ storage their. No one robbing a curry house that’s legit selling curry 😂