{"id":140035,"date":"2016-10-14T01:17:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T23:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=140035"},"modified":"2016-10-14T01:17:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T23:17:02","slug":"watch-brazen-thief-steals-phone-from-a-trolley-in-woolworths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/140035\/watch-brazen-thief-steals-phone-from-a-trolley-in-woolworths\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Brazen thief steals phone from a trolley in Woolworths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"fbPhotoPageCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*G&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:45}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">New video footage has emerged showing a man stealing a mobile phone from a handbag in a trolley in Woolworths while its owner is only a few feet away.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CCTV footage from a Woolworths grocery store in South Africa highlights the need for people to be more cautious amid increasingly brazen criminals.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"fbPhotoPageCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*G&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:45}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">In the footage, which was posted on Youtube by CrimeWatch,\u00a0 a man posing as a customer initially scans the trolley twice to look inside the bag of a female shopper while her attention is focused on picking items off a shelf.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"fbPhotoPageCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*G&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:45}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">He then quickly circles back and pockets the phone before the victim even has a chance to realise his presence.<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uzhiTjlOo-o\" width=\"560\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video courtesy of Crime Watch<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More media<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/139781\/watch-road-rage-driver-attacks-car-with-a-knife-in-joburg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch: Road rage driver attacks car with a knife in Joburg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/139819\/watch-zuma-dances-the-night-away-as-south-africa-burns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch: Zuma dances the night away as South Africa burns<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New video footage has emerged showing a man stealing a mobile phone from a handbag in a trolley in Woolworths while its owner is only a few feet away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":140037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-140035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140039,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140035\/revisions\/140039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}