Purse Snatchers Face Mob Justice
June 2, 2010 8:13 AM   Subscribe

Purse Snatchers on a Motorcycle Beaten by Angry Crowd (LiveLeak) made a million times better with Yakety Sax!

From the LiveLeak description:
"Bold gangsters" riding a motorcycle snatched a pedestrian’s purse. When surrounded by Wenzhou’s city residents, the diabolical gangster brandished a 50 centimeter long blade, but no one flinched... In the midst of the struggle, there were several who were especially courageous, distinguished by Chinese netizens hailing them “Broom Man”, “Stool Man”, and “Cardboard Box Man”.
For Chinese readers, there is more information on YouTube (same video, better description but in Chinese).

The Benny Hillifier / Yakety Sax previously mentioned here.
posted by stringbean (11 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Not really sure that "video of angry crowd beating the shit out of some street criminals" is really a great idea for a post. -- cortex



 
I wouldn't want to be Stool Man, just sayin.
posted by The Whelk at 8:16 AM on June 2, 2010


No.
posted by rollbiz at 8:21 AM on June 2, 2010


Contents of purse: $20

Motorbike: $200
Fuel: $10
Large knife: $2
Physician fees: $40
Bruise ointment: $4

Net gain: -$236

Happiness to millions of Chinese victims of street crime: Priceless
posted by MuffinMan at 8:22 AM on June 2, 2010


If everybody on Earth who was guilty of once selfishly harming another was beaten to death, there would be no more crime!
posted by CynicalKnight at 8:25 AM on June 2, 2010


There's no justice like angry mob justice.
posted by DU at 8:26 AM on June 2, 2010 [1 favorite]


By the looks of it, the purse-snatchers could have been injured severely. I don't think that trivializing violence like this is a good idea. A video of people fighting is not a joke.

How would you feel about this if it involved people you knew?
posted by a womble is an active kind of sloth at 8:27 AM on June 2, 2010


How would you feel about this if it involved people you knew?

I'd be fairly ashamed that they went about on motorbikes stealing other people's property, personally.
posted by MuffinMan at 8:29 AM on June 2, 2010


How would you feel about this if it involved people you knew?

If the people I knew were the thieves, I'd feel they got what they deserved. If they showed me the video, I'd be laughing openly at them.

You notice the one wielding the knife did not try to give up the purse.
posted by Max Power at 8:31 AM on June 2, 2010


Yeah I have to say, if my brother came home all banged up and bloody and I asked him what happened and he showed me video of himself getting a whoop-assing from a crowd after he snatched a purse, I'd laugh my ass off at him, call him a douchebag and then dial 911 and have the cops pick him up.
posted by spicynuts at 8:35 AM on June 2, 2010


Note also they beat the snot out of that guy's poor innocent motorcycle. Although I'm not sure how much damage occurs in a cardboard box v. motorcycle fight.
posted by spicynuts at 8:38 AM on June 2, 2010


I am a very bad person for laughing as hard as I did at the BennyHillified YouTube clip. Surely I am going to Hell for this.

(Good thing Satan already has my resume on file...)

posted by spoobnooble at 8:39 AM on June 2, 2010


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