Watch This iPhone Thief Get Taken Down By New Yorkers [Video]

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Posted July 31, 2012 at 1:41am by iClarified

A thief who attempted a snatch an iPhone from a woman in Manhattan got more than he bargained for when bystanders chased him down to make a citizens arrest.

Erika Silva, 23, was surfing the Internet outside her lower Manhattan office when Noah Udell blindsided her and attempted to make off with her iPhone. The two struggled for the phone but he snatched it and pushed her away.

Brian Hester and Chase Bunn were on a smoke break when they witnessed the attempted robbery.

"She was screaming, 'Help!' " Hester told The Post. "They were wrestling. He snatched the phone and pushed her."

Hester and Bunn took off after the man. "My coffee went everywhere, and my phone fell out of my pocket," Hester said. Bunn grabbed Udell first but hurt his knee in the process. Hester then knocked the suspect to the ground becoming slightly dazed himself in the fall.

A crowd began to gather with one man pinning Udell down with a foot to the throat. As Hester tried to hold off the angry bystanders, Udell jumped up and again began to flee.

Hester chased him down a second time, this time holding the crook until police arrived.

"I was like, 'I don't have all day to be chasing you,' " Hester said. "Thieves need to know, 'You're not going to get away with this in broad daylight.'"

Take a look at the video below for real footage of the incident.

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Androidsck - August 1, 2012 at 5:34pm

He got tired of his crappy Samsung Android hanging up so much that he wanted the superior iPhone. As with all Android users, he couldn't afford one and decided to steal it instead.

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Vze1 - August 1, 2012 at 12:28am

You should come to me hottie and asked for my iPhone.

Bj - July 31, 2012 at 5:09pm

In sweden it's totally opposite, if someone runs u, all u have to do watch an let the thief run, people around you will totally ignore you the victim and the thief, what do you call that?

Pet - July 31, 2012 at 12:45pm

What a civilized country... Here it would have been a citizens asassination.

Joe - July 31, 2012 at 5:02am

Sonder why no one tries to steal a sII or sIII. Lol haha

Carlos - July 31, 2012 at 4:02am

Give poor thief a break,his neck hurts and he is gona go away with it for being brutaly held down.case closed. In the future no one will stop a robber for stealing a phone although the intentions of the citizens were good, but done the wrong way. The guy with scratched knee should have said that beacuse of the thief he can not walk and demand money. Perhaps than the thoef would stop talking about the knee injury.

carlos - July 31, 2012 at 10:50am

What did I replay? That he will not be sentenced due to a good lawyer, he will most probably get away with it with some money. I do not agree with the thief, and I know everything about citizen arrest. I was just trying to say that the guys who helped out could get in trouble due to helping out by stopping the criminal. What it not ok. I am sorry you could not read my post and feel the sarcasm.

joyz - July 31, 2012 at 3:07am

Maybe the advertiser is from Korea ? XD

Kurac - July 31, 2012 at 2:23am

This is not Apple news or tutorial. :/

joyz - July 31, 2012 at 2:02am

Now If that was a Korean product, I bet they would have let the thief go

Adcpolo - July 31, 2012 at 2:21am

If that was a korean product there would have been no thief

joyz - July 31, 2012 at 2:59pm

What's Kim's problem? Didn't get sucked off by Samsung today?

Apple205 - July 31, 2012 at 1:50am

That ironic moment when they post the video using Flash.

joyz - July 31, 2012 at 3:08am

Works for me so don't quite know what you on about...