Video: Thieves Snatch Bag From Visitor’s Cycle
Police have obtained video footage of thieves snatching a handbag from a vistor’s livery cycle, and have released it to the public hoping to obtain assistance in identifying the suspects.
A police spokesperson said, “Police have obtained video footage of tourists on a livery cycle who had their handbag snatched.
“It appears that around 2:48pm on Tuesday August 5th, three rental cycles with tourist was traveling east on South Road in Warwick near Astwood Park when two unknown individuals on a motorcycle sped past them and removed a handbag from their rental cycle basket, the thieves then made good their escape traveling east on South Road.
“The image of these two unscrupulous individuals stealing in this manner is disturbing and police have commenced an investigation into this incident. We are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the individuals on the cycle and anyone with any information is asked to contact CUI on 29-50011.
“We are also advising the public and tourist alike to ensure that all times valuables are kept out of sight or secured on the cycle when traveling remove the opportunity and lessen your chance of becoming a victim.”
Update 4.31pm: The video was captured by one of the tourists who had a go-pro camera at the time of the incident
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This is an appalling representation of our country. I hope persons who know who they are contact police. These people must be brought to justice.
*an appalling misrepresentation!
It is what it is!
Unbelievable. Movie stunt ???? If reality lets get them in court!!!
How can anyone tic the dislike on this one. They are no better than the crooks. Send all 5 to prison for 30 years and tell their family to keep them fed. Do this and educate them and it would change the way trash Bermudians think.
@ Ian Hunter, I am so amazed at the amount of dislikes to Crazy Timeas comment. We have some sick individuals among us who feel this behavior is justifiable.
no, it’s actually an accurate representation.
Utter scum. Hope someone recognizes the vermin and reports them.
Please everyone…show this to everyone you know. Someone will recognize that bike, that shirt or those two fools that are to lazy to work, Lets help get these tourists their bag back and make an example of these two fools so that NOBODY will try it again anytime soon.
How can 3 dislike your post, they are no better than the scum that did the deed.
Relax.
Sometimes people accidentally hit the dislike button as they are scrolling down on smartphones. It has happened to me many times, and you can’t undo it after you hit the button.
Wow. Bermuda dies just a little bit more.
We die only if nobody comes forward and does anything about it. Get these scumbags and lock em up!
It’s also time to legislate higher penalties for crimes against visitors. We live here we know, for the most part, how to protect ourselves and our things. Visitors come here to relax not be on high alert at all times.
@ Come Correct, I too am appalled by this action. I think of the trouble Thisbe causes with regard to personal items; having to cancel credit cards and the like. However, penalties should be no harsher for visitors than anyone else. The crime is equally as bad for all.
You have a better way to deter crimes against our visitors which ultimately hurts locals more in the long run? Something that doesn’t involve the removal of civil liberties?
No, I don’t have a better way, but is maintain the penalty for any crime shouldn’t be based on whether or not the victim is visiting or lives here. I just don’t get that logic.
Totally agree it looks like two little girls
that was definitely a girl on the back of the bike. so sad to see this. luckily they got it on video.
Bermuda – “Feel the Love”
What an atrocity , sad that scumbags such as these two are roaming around .
“Feel the love” actually was the motto when all the gang shootings were in full bloom. I could never understand how we could be trying to “dupe” tourists with hypocrisy like that….but here we see it again in another form.
“So much more” is better. You can classify that in many ways and still be relevant.
How sad is that.
How can anyone dislike? I am so disappointed in these people, they are not real Bermudians, we don’t want them on our Island Home.
I’m sorry but these are the Real Bermudians described very eloquently by Toni Daniels in her op-ed .
Those are girls ???!!!!!
Well, they’re crooks first and hopefully they’re nailed thanks to the video footage.
all i can do is smh…
Big brother is everywhere I love it….. I hope these fools get fingered…. the sad part, the grabber looks like a female smh
Two stupid girls.
the one riding is not a girl. they are both white or hi yellow. the guy is about tallesh and the girl is short. they most likely come from up west or visting family in Bermuda.
guy about 19- 22 girl is about 14-17
Yup, looks like two girls to me. One white, the other dark skinned. When caught, both need to to be sent to an Ebola Hospital so they can learn what life should be all about.
What type of bike was it?
Honda lead
Is the left side mirror on this bike missing or do these bikes come with only a mirror on the left? Just an observation that might help narrow it down.
Do the right thing and turn yourselves in. If the police have to look for you, the punishment is worse when you are caught! Remember people call crimestoppers anonymously and get a possible reward.
They should have landed on their a$$e$ once they snatched the bag… What a shame! Glad that its been captured on camera. Hope someone is able to recognize who they are. SMH
Now we see why the police want to outlaw tinted helmet visors. To me hey look like 2 girls on a “girly style bike”, but could be guys dressed up to “look like girls”.
“Now we see why the police want to outlaw tinted helmet visors”
Zing!
Except I don’t think the police want to rely on random GoPro footage.
But, fair point, if there was no visor then surely the driver would be instantly recognisable.
If the person who took video was able to witness this why didn’t they do something! If they were in a car cut them off. If they were on a bike get along side them and kick them off their bike….
You’ve been watching too many Mel Gibson movies and they’ve affected your brain .
Why would you say that? You don’t think that’s a logical question. It’s got nothing to so with watching Mel Gibson.
C, the people who were filming were their tourist friends up front filming themselves riding using a gopro camera…they probably didn’t even realise what was happening…
@ C
I can’t believe I’m wasting precious time having to explain this to you but it does seem you need a little help.
What level of experience as motorcyclists do the vast majority of our visitors have to undertake a stunt like you suggested ?
With the exception of maybe having the awareness to get the license number of a high speed snatch which they probably weren’t even aware of, little to none.
Do you know how strong of a rider one must be to aggressively lash out at another cycle under speed whilst maintaining complete control of your own ?
What if they had panicked and lost control and went down right next to the crooks and the other bike ran over them without them even attempting to lash out ? Two possible road fatalities is one obvious outcome .
Also I see nothing about visitors ‘letting their awareness down when on holiday’ as being relevant because we still lie to them about how wonderfully safe this place is and how we have no crime. And they still believe it . The fault though is OURS , not theirs .
If you were in a totally foreign land would you have the b@lls to do what you suggested ?
Some years back a friend of mine was visiting a major US east coast city. While stopped at a traffic light, windows down , a thug showed up out of nowhere reached through the window and snatched the gold chain off of his neck .
My friend reacted the way you suggested above and jumped out of the car to give chase . The crook stopped , turned around and not only pulled a gun out but fired at him . Luckily he had poor aim .
I’m glad you had the time, I just had to ignore him… But you are right.
@C, our fault for the omission, we updated with the fact it was filmed by a go-pro. Sorry! The camera was on the back of another person’s bike and they just coincidentally happened to catch this crime. They were in front, so wouldn’t have been aware it happened until after the fact.
Thxs for the clarification. Now I understand..
If you paid attention you could see the person video taping is also on a rental. So how is a rental suppose to stop a already speeding bike? Also take into consideration the person riding the bike with the person video taping probably has no clue what was happening behind him.
You can also clearly see it is a GoPro fitted backwards to the helmet. The person looks right to south shore, the GoPro moves to the left(right from the video perspective). You can also see the basket of the bike so unless this person was sitting the wrong way or is an owl neither them or the rider would have had a clue. You’re also right, how can a 50cc rental with restrictors catch a 100 or 125cc Honda lead? I’d be frickin impressed.
Person videoing was a tourist (3 bikes in a group) probably using a Go Pro facing backwards. They would not have seen anything until reviewing the video later in their hotel/ship.
Utterly disgusting!
It’s a shame but I don’t understand why tourist drop their guard when on vacation. They won’t travel in that fashion when they’re back home. To me common sense is a factor here aswell.
Because Bermuda is supposed to be another world. It’s supposed to be better than the rest. A place where people don’t do this sort of thing.
Also, if you aren’t used to mopeds, motorcycles and scooters you probably aren’t expecting to get robbed while you’re moving like bandits on horses with a train in the old west.
Um no it’s not. Stop making excuses for stupidity. There is no place in the world that crime doesn’t exist and there are plenty of warnings about Bermuda all over the internet.
Because they are in Bermuda. That is one of the bigest things about coming here. you can relax and not worry about crim like this. you can let your kids roam free and not worry about anything.
we have abandon God and now we are paying for it with the decay in our Bermudan morals
As bad as this is and I hope they catch them, I thought these livery cycles tell these tourists to strap down or secure their belongings? Crime is 90% opportunity and tourists must be told to be more vigilant. The same goes when we visit their countries…
Damn this behavior pisses me off .
This continues to put a stake in the heart of what should be our number one industry.
How many people will this now deter from coming here ? How many millions of tourism advertising dollars will it completely negate ?
Bad word of mouth travels faster then good and we can rest assured that if these people were off of one of the cruise ships ,then by midnight that night , every last person on board knew about it .
And do you think they’re going to keep it a secret when they get home ?
It’s almost unfathomable that it looks like two female perps but I’d love to see them get caught and sentenced to a full 15 years each .
Even with the dark visor, someone will know that snazzy top she’s wearing.
I agree with you C…! Why not try and catch up with them? Take their license plate number?
Thank you. I am not saying what these 2 did was right, cause it’s down rite disgusting. but if one can video the deed why couldn’t they do something. I dunno. I hv never been in this situation but I believe I would hv tried to do something.
They did do something they “video’ed” the deed AND handed it over to police, helloooooo!
Dear C before you comment again Google go-pro cameras… you will see these cameras are attached to different things helmets baskets etc… so you can understand how it was recorded….
Dear cutazz. I actually own a go
Pro and well aware how it works. Thank you. And my comment was typed before bernews said it was a go pro
Hopefully one of the visitors noticed it and was able to get the licence number, although from first glance I don’t think the rider suspected a thing.
Again..they were not aware immediately after the robbery.. the gopro camera was just rolling and they did not know what had happened as yet at the time.. they did not know a robbery had taken place so they were not looking at license plates or anything like that.. simple.. no mission impossible around here.
This is sick!
Since this is near Astwood Cove, Check the Swizzle Inn & Rubis Gas Station Cameras.
crimes of opportunity only happen when theres an opportunity…rental cycles should come with lock box baskets…..no more opportunity.
That bike is easily identifiable. Not many bikes look like that with the yellow stripes at the front. Start the investigation by the type of bike that is, then the colour, then match the owners up with the footage.
It’s important to catch these kinds of people. They give the tourists an experience that they wouldn’t like to return to.
If they cant find them even with video evidence, then what’s the point in having all of these police everywhere.
If someone wants to start a collection for funds to offer as a reward, I would pay money to see these idiots behind bars… maybe we hould stick them in the stocks for a week! or give them the cat-o-ninetais!
Lets hope the Bermuda Justice system doesn’t let them off with a conditional discharge and verbal reprimand!
The sad part is, they will be caught. Once caught they will be given a conditional discharge…… flipping laws suck so so so so much….
Bunch of jokers run this country. Police get really discouraged because some are very honest and hard working and catch these fools. What happens in court, they walk !!!!!!!!! Dreamers
u can defintely tell its a girl on the back from the legs. def a guy rider. idoits! i hope they get caught
plus the bike is definitely a honda lead.
I maybe mistaken but, they appear to be two white girls…Why isn’t there surveillance cameras along the public roadways, especially on the roadways that are traveled by many tourist?
I too agree and advocate the banning of dark tinted face shields on helmets.
It’s a fact, crimes of this nature have been going on for, “donkeys years” and one would’ve thought there be some form of prevention / or at least, having the ability e.g. technology to catch them that are responsible for such offences
Raymond….I thought the same thing…
Lol Raymond.
Idjot
The other Bermuda believes it can’t do no wrong.
I have been studying how the other Bermuda can do criminal acts and get away with it for years.
Your comments is a real eye opener — you beat BT to the wicket’
I looked at the Video over and over I thought the same thing but wasn’t brave like you to speak on it.
Looks like new style Honda Lead. Not many on road.
Thats what I was thinking but wasn’t to sure myself…
Not many on the Road – Then the Police should narrow it down to the owners though the Honda Dealership and TCD.
If these two individuals were smart they would turn themselves in.- then I wonder even if they know whats going
on in the media at this stage of the game. – trust me an arrest will be made.
Some of us work our butts off making tourists feel welcome here in the hope they will keep returning. Then these dipsticks come along and ruin it for everyone. I’m not sure the bike rider knew what the pillion passenger was doing or if it was planned but the video doesn’t lie. The thief just ruined someone’s vacation and the bad news will travel fast. Hopefully the magistrate will give out the maximum penalty for this offence.
The rider was definitely aware and a vital part of executing the manoeuvre.
He even looks.
It looks like they have mastered the move – I’m starting to think they have done it before -
It looks like they have mastered the move – I’m starting to think they have done it before !
It could be a case of the Guy’s are getting the blame while the Girls are responsible.
All you have to do search the bernews posts with all the photos from Beachfest and the other events on that day. Look for the idiots wearing that hidiousness of shirt.
Yesterday? Beachfest was like a week ago.
Hence the name Inspector Gadget. Lol!
I really hope these pathetic losers are caught and publicly shamed because they will never the proper punishment in Bermuda. First offense? Tenth offense? Doesn’t matter…just a slap on the wrist.
The desperation is real! When the tourists decide to stop coming to Bermuda because of the crime our entire economy will feel it than it’ll be too late. Stop the shinanigans now !!
It seems whoever is disliking these posts and condoning this behavior might know something about this… Hope the Police get these scum…
Stop the s***! When we can no longer survive on our own island and result to this I know the end is near
I hope the judge makes an example of them! Scum Bags! Go get a job!
Rental shops should make mandatory the use of enclosed baskets. This way thieves would have a harder time to steal anything. Just a thought………
Absolutely cFCCfc_blu they should make it mandatory…
Find these two and lock ‘em up…for a long time. Fry the bike, too, just to make a point.
I also wonder if any of the car drivers passing have come forward
Umm, those are females!! Look at the shirt on the rider and its a girl wearing a skirt or skort, that snatched the bag!!
The rider is not female. You can tell by the build of the chest and arms. Although the passenger looks female, I don’t think it is by the muscular structure of the leg and also wearing pants, that if standing up, would cover below the knee. Yes there are a few tom boys out there and a few guys that wear short shorts but IMO it is a guy on the back. I know my way around a female body. I say 2 guys…very scrawny guys…maybe they hungry. Either way this is a youtube video which means the video quality compared to the actual footage is highly reduced. The police would be better off releasing the real HD video.
Bernews, although it would be a large file is there any way to upload the original footage?
After another few looks, maybe the passenger is female, those are some skinny little arms. If these are guys…1. Get a job 2. Get a gym membership.
The weed they smoke keepin them skinny
Don’t be so “ridickalickalass” as Daffy would say ….lol
lol smoking weed does not make you skinny
Tucker’s town boys at it again.
wow,seems they are females. very bad:(
I myself have stopped tourists and told them not to put their valuables in the back of the bikes for reasons such as this. Such a shame.
Its a girl on the back! N a guy riding! They look white!!!!! Lol dumb girl that would do anything 4 a man…
it’s a new style Honda lead and that is 2 scumbag thieving light skinned Females!
ya’ll blind.
Ok start off by going to whoever brings these bikes in see who has bought that color bikes which it shouldn’t be many an investigate them the bike most likely belongs to the riders mama because the youngsters don’t really buy that type of bike so if it isn’t stolen its probably a family members bike…. if all of a sudden the police get a call saying that their bike was stolen then the police should keep and eye on their family members who fit that description….
I agree. Find out who sells these bikes and check for every single owner until they’re caught! I believe we as Bermudians should also compensate for their loss, as spread amongst us it would be very inexpensive and far better advertising for our home. WE MUST CATCH them though and make an example!!!
As far as this crime detering anyone from Bermuda i think is a false statement. People get robbed everyday in NYC and people still go there. Crime takes place all over the world and we still travel. Shootings were at an all time high yet the cruise visitor rates went up. I do not side with the thieves and hope they are caught however crime happens everywhere even in PARADISE.
If this was recorded on a go pro why are we watching someone film it of a computer screen. Surely the 1080p HD original recording would help in identifying colours makes models sex and race.
Thank you! Exactly what I was thinking. I blame the BPS not Bernews, the BPS should have put the HD footage out to all news outlets. 1080p you would be able to see if the passenger had fricken leg hair.
just Think: You spoke the truth…I’ve always said, “where there’s people there is crime.” This is why I further agree with cFCCfc_blu
The police need to set up a sting operation and ride hopped up bike that look like rentals, basket and all and catch every rat doing this…
Way to smooth … This isn’t the first time Bonnie and Clyde have robbed our precious guest . Book em Danno !
Go pros are not necessarily set to 1080p you choose your resolution.
Personally I wish they had swerved and hit an oncoming truck.
Winston Churchill said that a secret is a secret times ten times ten.
In other words every person that sees this will tell ten others and so on.
They really know how to f**** up an industry on this island.
This could be stopped by rental people putting mesh lids on the baskets.
But that is no excuse.
Excuse me. … Tony Brannon spoke of this type of behavior ruining Bermuda tourism . What he didn’t expect though is that white kids were perpetrating crimes against our visitors , but , now for ALL THE WORLD TO SEE , THE CULPRITS ARE EXPOSED ON HDTV .
Gotta bring race into it innit Coffee…you’re a s*** stirrer! Whether they were white or black they should be locked the hell up for a long time for doing what they did period!!
Always quick with the race baiting. Looks like you were too quick to blame whites though.
Bigot
its the bike thoooooo lmao!! #whayabroke? ah axis thooo????? where they do daaat attt ???
Only when making the movies, that you know what’s going to happen, in this case they didn’t see it coming, but realized after the fact that have it on tape. Hope they catch those rats.
Why haven’t blacked out visors been made illegal yet? Seems they are involved in almost every crime these days?!
you are a moron. utterly. I am a good citizen and I want visors that block sun and UV rays, but I should suffer because of twats like you?
sunglasses. look them up.
You may be a good citizen but you are clearly a dumb one, go buy a pair of shades to block out the sun
I suppose you wear your helmet and visor when driving your car too?
The only twats are the ones that wear the visor to hide their faces so they can get away with cr*p like this, that includes you.
Those little basta@#$ need to have their fingers smashed, leaving them with limited use of their hands. I bet that would teach them.
I hope WHEN they are caught….they chop their hands OFF!!! Disgustin….
WOW.. I was reading your local news about Bermuda to see if I would enjoy a holiday there but all I see is, shootings, muggings, and drive by bag snatching.. Think I will pass on a holiday here and go els were. Real shame because it looks beautiful over there, shame about its residents spoiling it.
@Brit.
Yeah, right. I don’t know what news you’re looking at, but I haven’t read anything recently about shootings or muggings. Yes, somebody had their bag snatched, which was unfortunate but doesn’t happen regularly.
When you start researching other vacation spots, get back to me and let me know if you find one that is completely crime free. Crime against tourists in Bermuda is very, very rare.
I read the British news regularly, and without fail I regularly read of stuff that happens to your countrymen when you travel. Just the other day, a whole bunch got violently ill when travelling abroad. At least when you come here, you don’t need shots or have to worry about catching some horrible disease.
No place in the world is perfect, so why do you expect Bermuda to be?
Brit…you’re another s*** stirrer like Coffee. You’re probably not even British!!
Yeah, you notice how at one point Brit said that they would pass on a holiday “here.” That is known as a Freudian Slip. They are already here, but pretending to be someplace else.
Brit please.. stop it.. please be quiet if you don’t want to come here don’t come here..We won’t miss you trust me.. But truthfully your probably just some random person just typing anything just to say something and stir up a mess..Stay where you are then we don’t need anymore fake lying people here!
I suspect ‘Brit’ is full of something that rhymes with Brit.
All she sees is shootings, muggings and drive by bag snatching? Right. Classic pointless trollery.
Now we the People the Police see why have ti have the Police Motorcycles of all kinds constantly
patrolling Bermuda’s Roads.— were are the Bikes anyway ? haven’t seen on for weeks and I drive a Van Island wide for a living.
It will be interesting if or when these two thieves get caught.
um police bikes have been everywhere every day, you haven;’t seen them? you live in a cave?
Although I agree that dark visors should be made illegal, it won’t help. Only the law abiding citizens will stop wearing them. Stealing a handbag is illegal but that didn’t stop these two fools from doing it so what makes anyone think they will not wear a dark visor because it is illegal?
All they’ll do is commit the crime and then race to hide somewhere and quickly change their helmets / visors.
And everyone here sounds so shocked like as if this is the first time this has occurred. Handbags are stolen from tourists EVERY single summer. At least three or four times a year. They are stolen from the baskets of moving bikes, from unattended property left on the beach while tourists swim, etc. This is nothing new here. The only difference is this time we can witness it happen via video as opposed to just reading about it in a tiny article on page 6.
And every year when at least one culprit gets caught and is put in court, he (usually a he) just gets several inquiry reports ordered and a conditional discharge and he is out there robbing again as soon as he leaves the court building.
they will be arrested today
When you find them, whip the hell out of their backs and chop off their damn fingers!
Worthless animals! They earn their reputation!
Pieces of trash don’t belong in our society!
ban those animals from owning and driving bikes and vehicles ever again in their lifetime!
BAN THEM!
and chop their thieving devil fingers off!
What type of person are you to say such things? Yes they done wrong but you go overboard with your comments. Your so vile and evil minded.. Yes they should be taught not to do that again but what you are saying is cruel and inhumane. Who is really the animals here? You or them.. I’m sure your not a saint and you were young once so come off of your high horse and join the world. All your vileness
crime is 99% of the time committed by certain people.
Yea people with red blood what are you trying to incinuate? What you trying to imply? Because all sorts of people commit crime.. rich,.poor, black white, politicians and police.. red blooded humans commit crimes all types. So please.. with your presumptions arrogant comment shutup!
lasses and their bags right?
Lock ‘em up and take away their licenses for at least 5 years.
this makes me so sick to my stomach sick!! this is why tourist dont frequen Bermuda as much! cuz of these LOW lives!! OBA needs to get it together we need JOBSSSSSSSSS.
No bie this is our country we have the right to take anyone who doesnt live hurs tings and make them leave…..
ARSE!!!!
Alright get estimate time from tourist and all westeners can check all cameras of persons on this bike fitting the description if possible. Start from barnes corner, is it working? In fact Warwick gas station south, middle rd . We as a community can help!!! Front person looks like a guy, back not sure, maybe a girl. Make the camera go slow motion and zoom , come on get ito
By not illegalising visors other than clear,our magistrates,our police and every single mp in govt. Are “AIDING AND ABETTING” , through act or innaction or ommission….the legislation for lack of action with knowledge the visor hides the identity of a person!Poop or get off the pot!
Utilise the law for masks and halloween….I believe that thetime has come…..if a mask cannot be worn ,then a visor ,that we know to be utilised in the commission of a serious crime,that often causes serious injury should be…..absolutely …and unnaquivicably be banned as a tool used in the commission of crime.Politicians are required to see to the safety of their citizenry,so are magistrates………….so………
Either do your duty to your people or resign your tenure…..it is high time you did your duty!
Ppl banning dark visors may help a little but what will help alot is when we catch these two is we make an example out of them by posting their pictures every where in name and shame put them on tv and every social media outlet that we can find…. then make these fools do some type of community service dressed in some unfashionable attire so their peers/public can have a good laugh at their dumb a**es