Robbery foiled by cell phone video
Posted on: Friday, 19 December 2008, 21:29 CST
A shopper at a Brighton, England, watch store said he scared off attempted robbers by filming them with his cell phone video camera.
Mark Thewlis, 28, said he was Christmas shopping with his 2-year-old daughter at Watches Of Switzerland when he saw two men attempting to smash the store's window display, Sky News reported Friday.
I heard the screeching of a car, then a banging noise and I turned round to see these two guys smashing at the window with sledgehammers,
Thewlis said.
He said he immediately pulled out his phone and began filming the men.
A third guy sitting in the car was as bold as brass and didn't even have a mask on, so I filmed him too. It was quite a spectacle really and I managed to get quite close to them,
he said.
Thewlis said the driver honked the horn after seeing the camera and the three men fled in a Volkswagen Golf.
Police said nothing was stolen from the store and the car used by the attempted thieves was later found abandoned.
Source: United Press International
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