From Newsgroup: rec.arts.tv
While this video is explicitly about London (UK), which had 80,000 phone thefts in a single year, it mentions that this pattern is common through England and Wales. It seems reasonable to believe that it is repeated in
other places, possibly including your town, since it seems pretty
lucrative and low risk for the thieves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SopjMoIMfg [20 minutes]
The big takeaways seem to be that you need to maintain your situational awareness by never walking around oblivious to the outside world by
wearing ear buds and that you should hold your phone close to your chest
so it's harder to grab. (Ideally, you wouldn't use your phone outdoors
at all and step inside the nearest building to use it. But of course
that's not terribly realistic if you're trying to film something or are navigating with it.)
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