Hong Kong thief uses pole, hook to snare purse from 10th-storey flat after climbing up scaffolding

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A citywide manhunt is on for a Hong Kong thief who was captured on video over the weekend using a home-made apparatus to reach through the window of a tenth-floor Sham Shui Po flat and snatch a handbag containing HK$1,200 (US$154) and bank cards. In the viral video, a masked man wearing gloves and a black cap can be seen standing on a scaffolding outside the flat’s living room window and wielding a bamboo pole fixed with a metal hook to carefully lift the purse from a sofa. The 45-second act, wh

A citywide manhunt is on for a Hong Kong thief who was captured on video over the weekend using a home-made apparatus to reach through the window of a tenth-floor Sham Shui Po flat and snatch a handbag containing HK$1,200 and bank cards.

The 45-second act, which took place in broad daylight on Sunday afternoon, was nearly foiled by the arrival of a 38-year-old old female tenant, who emerged from a bedroom just as the bag reached the hands of the thief. “Robbery! Robbery! Give the bag back to me!” she can be heard yelling as she runs towards the window to no avail.

The scaffolding has been around the 11-storey Tung Ming Mansion for maintenance work on the outside wall facing Lai Chi Kok Road since March.

 

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