{"id":71165,"date":"2025-01-28T13:35:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=71165"},"modified":"2025-01-28T13:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:35:57","slug":"the-steaming-flashmobs-fuelling-uk-phone-theft-epidemic-how-robbery-gangs-are-ransacking-stores-to-grab-as-many-devices-as-possible-before-stolen-handsets-are-sent-to-africa-or-sold-to-second-han","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/28\/the-steaming-flashmobs-fuelling-uk-phone-theft-epidemic-how-robbery-gangs-are-ransacking-stores-to-grab-as-many-devices-as-possible-before-stolen-handsets-are-sent-to-africa-or-sold-to-second-han\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;steaming&#8217; flashmobs fuelling UK phone theft epidemic: How robbery gangs are ransacking stores to grab as many devices as possible before stolen handsets are sent to Africa or sold to second-hand phone shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/html_modules\/2025\/01_JAN\/250127_where_is_your_phone_ending_up\/250127_where_is_your_phone_ending_up-large.png\" width=\"578\" height=\"603\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"g-250127_where_is_your_phone_ending_up-box\" class=\"ai2html\">\n<div id=\"g-250127_where_is_your_phone_ending_up-large\" class=\"g-artboard\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.958\" data-min-width=\"584\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s phone theft epidemic is being fuelled by &#8216;steaming&#8217; flashmobs bombarding their way into stores and ransacking as many devices as possible in brazen 20-second heists.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14329757\/The-steaming-flashmobs-fuelling-UK-phone-theft-epidemic.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Britain&#8217;s phone theft epidemic is being fuelled by &#8216;steaming&#8217; flashmobs bombarding their way into stores and ransacking as many devices as possible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Second-hand-phone-market-UK.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71166,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71165\/revisions\/71166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}