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This is the best worst video you’ll see for a while. That’s a 20-month-old baby in the carriage, watching Barney on her mum’s iPhone. And then the guy who sort of looks like Jim’s dad from American Pie bends over and steals it. Again, from a baby. He stole an iPhone from a baby and was caught on CCTV and the rest of the world wanted to be mad at him but could not stop laughing. [The Sun via CNET]
What an asshole.. he would of seemed like less of a prick if he stole from the store, not the kid.
I don’t know, what do people expect? Would you keep a baby entertained with £500 cash in public and walk away? No, people would expect it to be stolen and risk the safety of the baby. Yet they give an unsupervised baby a £500 iPhone in the middle of a bust store! Is that what good parenting today? Should they not expect it to be stolen from a ‘baby’, I hear it’s easy.
But a further perceptive of rational is that of all the crimes he could have committed with that unsupervised baby the one he committed was extremely minor, and maybe some tosspot should have better value for their phone, but more importantly have better value of their own spawn – stupid people got lucky.
Bust store.
Where everyone goes to buy their titties.
Maybe the baby was on his own? That would be the shop for him.
You Bastard
I hope they can get him through the “Find My iPhone” feature. And I am sure someone will recognise the tw@t.
But everyone knows stealing from babies is the most delicious crime you can commit. In fact, I think it’s what super evil bad guys do as a treat for themselves.
You’re exactly right. Stealing candy would have been even more delicious.
Bloomin’ dumb baby! Bwahahahahaaaargh!
What I’ve always wondered is who is feeding their babies candy?
Are we talking about Candy electronics?
Why has a baby got an iPhone?
THIS.
i know im gonna get called heartless but that was my exact first thought. hate when you see 4 and 5 year olds running around with macbooks and iphones, not out of bitterness but that kids imagination has to be taking a hit, no?
My little on of 20 months uses my iPhone and iPad to watch peppa or Georgy as she calls it on you tube, she also thinks the tv’s are touch screens. Personally I don’t have a issue with kids using technology, the amount of good apps for kids to learn on idevices is high, they make learning fun and better than game consoles which don’t really educate.
‘watching Barney on her mum’s iPhone’. One paragraph dude. One
read the article guys. it’s really not so hard. ;-;
Watching Barney on her mum’s iPhone, unattended. I have no problem with kids and tech, my daughter has been allowed to keep herself amused on my phone since she was 2. She has never been left alone with it and, when not in the safety of our own home she has never been left alone.
Too right. It’s irresponsible parenting for leaving the child unattended, not for giving her an iPhone to watch Barney on…
My 15 month old twins use my iphone and tablet all the time, it keeps them entertained and I have loads of teaching and drawing apps for them. However…I certainly wouldn’t give them my phone outside of the house and definitely wouldn’t leave them unattended. To be honest I’d like to see someone take my phone off them, I struggle half the time!
And why has the baby been left alone?
Darrell with a wig on… Not nice, really not nice.
Why would I want to steal an iPhone Taf? I might want to replace the iPhone with an Android Phone so that the child doesn’t grow up to be a self absorbed twat like her mother, who obviously thinks her clothes shopping is more important than keeping and eye on her child. As others have pointed out, losing the phone was one of the least bad outcomes for what could have happened here.
Totes. I would’ve gone for the pram – do you know how expensive those things are?
Sound plan, also when the Mum goes to Mothercare to buy a new one she can pick up THIS to go with her iPhone.
Amazing, I used to have that very map road thing as a little kid
And having an iPhone is what makes her a self absorbed twat and giving the kid an Android phone would change that? Whereas if she had given the child an Android phone she’d have spent more time teaching the kid how to use it?
Yes to the first question, no to the second question.
I did not say having the iPhone made her a self absorbed twat, If she’d left the baby with an Android or Windoews phone and prioritised her clothes shopping over care for her child she would still have been a self absorbed twat. Of course if she had left the child with a Blackberry or Symbian phone social services would have been on to her for child abuse.
Ahh well it was the way the comment was put
. And definitely on the Blackberry side, who knows what the child might grow up to be like.
Don’t know about self absorbed twat, but if it was Android, it wouldn’t be on Giz. The iPhone is what makes this newsworthy.
Used iPhone = £350 tops.
Fresh Baby = £50-150k depending on features.
Idiot.
The baby was over a month old, that’s obsolete to an Ifiend.
Now’s not a particularly good time to be joking about child snatching :/
To be fair, when is a good time?
It’s ALWAYS a good time to joke about child snatching.
I hear a decent little nymphet fetches a good price in the States.
@lester_bangs yes Find My iPhone might still work as it uses Google maps, can you imagine if Apple had changed it over to their own they would think he escaped to the artic.
The hell is a baby doing with an iPhone anyway? Oh yeah, that’s right: baby phone for a baby person.
Call me when he wants root access
You shouldn’t be rooting with babies, that’s what lands you “special treatment” in prison.
Nah, you’ve got it all wrong. You need to zoom and ENHANCE! Here’s what happens:
The baby puts the phone up to its mouth to swallow it, Eugene Levy realises that there is about to be a baby choking incident and steps forward to retrieve the phone. The baby swallows it before he can get to it. Realising that he is on camera, holding a strange baby’s face and the baby is unharmed, Eugene Levy decides to do what most of us would do: make a swift exit, pretend you didn’t see anything.
Just you wait people. Tomorrow’s giz will read; “BABY SHITS IPHONE”