Queue up for a mugging
I went to work one day, at a theme park, to be told that the day before (my day off) someone had tried to relieve the person behind them in the queue of their mobile phone.

Chav in question forgets that they are half way through a 90 minute queue in the peak season. In order to escape after committing their crime they would either have had to fight their way past their victim and anyone behind them who would have been witness to the theft, forwards where they would have probably been confronted by punters not so impressed by queuejumpers or into the ride area where they probably would have risked being hit by 28 people in a speeding rollercoaster train.

Their victim had for some reason handed their phone over, so what did the thieving scally do. Stayed in the queue to get their ride. On reaching the front of the queue their victim had told the staff, and managed to recite most of the contacts, music files and general stuff that was on the phone, leading to the thieves getting frogmarched off by security to be forcefully ejected into the hands of the local police.

Mind you, most people at theme parks mug themselves; if you will ride with large amounts of loose change in your pockets (£50 rolled up in an elastic band on one occasion - considered too much to come under the 'finders keepers' rules and duly handed to security, probably to be spent by them on pizza. And for some inexplicable reason, one staff member once discovered a Ministry of Sound Annual CD out of it's case), then you only have yourselves to blame for giving the staff a bonus when they clean the ride area at the end of the day.
(daylightroddery, Fri 16 Jun 2006, 3:56, Reply)