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On 31/07/2011 00:17, Zapp Brannigan wrote: > www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2011/07/29/53272-bicycle-bag-snatcher-strikes/ > POLICE are hunting a bicycle bandit who snatched a bag from an unsuspecting > shopper. The 51-year-old victim was loading shopping into his car in the > Morrison's car park in Basingstoke Road, Whitle, at 5.40pm on Tuesday when a > cyclist rode past and snatched a black satchel, containing bank and credit > cards and £150 cash, from his shopping trolley.

Sigh. I said Reading was a dump.

BTW that should be "Whitley", one of the more unpleasant suburbs of Reading, rather than "Whitle". Scary though...could happen to anyone with just a moment's inattention. Somehow I don't feel as vulnerable in a supermarket car park as I do in a street, particularly in the daytime.