Mexicans buy fake cellphones to hand over in muggings

In this May 15, 2019 photo, a driver maneuvers through the narrow streets of San Miguel Teotongo on his bus where a pair of police officers ride along to protect him and his passengers from armed robbery in the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City. Trigger-happy bandits regularly attack the buses that ferry people from the poorer outlying suburbs to jobs in the city center.

The scene is repeated over and over again, courtesy of the cameras that many buses now carry that record the assaults, often late at night or in the early morning: Sleepy passengers are seen bouncing along in the jitneys when one or two of the men aboard suddenly pull masks over their faces. One will pull out a gun while his accomplice passes down the aisle, often with his own gun, demanding valuables.

There were an average of 70 reported violent muggings every day in Mexico City in the first four months of 2019. About two-thirds were committed against pedestrians, with the rest split almost evenly between bus passengers and assaults on motorists stopped at lights or caught in traffic jams. Between 2017 and 2018, such assaults rose by about 22 percent.

“It’s useful for robberies, the large number of muggings happening in Mexico City,” said Axel. “They say ‘hand over your cellphone, give me everything’, and people know now they have to hand over the phone quick, in a matter of seconds, so they hand over these phones and often the thieves don’t realize it.”“Obviously there are problems, because if the criminals search it or find out ... there is going to be a problem.

Arturo_Sarukhan Viva Mexico. ..y el querido Exembajador preocupado por lo que dice Trump de Mexico. ..

And you want them to come here ...

Is Mexico considered one of the “shit hole” countries? If not, it should be.

They should start carrying real guns then!

zombie_nyc Awful and dishonest people are those passengers.

Yeh, students do this all the time in school.

Coming to your neighborhood Soon... Slowly but surely The Cartels have a presence in every city in the United States now.....!

Robbers also stop taxis on their way to the airport and steal their luggage. Since it happens outside, the airport doesn't do anything.

What chaos. No wonder the border is bulging. No American needs to be spending tourism dollars there.

Incredible! It’s coming here with the illegals.... better get a CCW permit or stay home..... oops home invasions are rising too.... get a shotgun and put it by your bed

They should start carrying guns to kill those motherfuckers right and there

I would start printing fake money too and put the real stuff in my underwear.

Isn’t it awesome that they’re coming here by the truck/bus/van load through our open border thanks to inaction by TheDemocrats DNC GOP

How about buying a Glock instead...

Socialism at it’s finest

Coming to a US city near you.

How quickly will the muggers figure that out?

MrsGeeLo

This is a sign of civilization’s collapse.

That's horrible..

This is hardly new or surprising.

Coming to a US city soon...

Bullets are cheaper than fake cell phones. This story demonstrates perfectly why the working class especially has a reason to arm themselves. Primarily the working class is the victim of crime like this.

And what are the police doing about this?

I'd put a tracking device on it so the Mexican police can find them😉

Would you start carrying a fake phone to protect your real one? Yes, no, maybe?

In Brazil they've been doing this for at least 15 years, likely longer than that.

🤢 AVOID Mexico like hell.

Whoa! So they don't realise the that phones r fake or they now take both faken real ones with em

I works for cops too.

Yes so let’s make a article about it and blow their cover

Well you've just told the world.

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