Thief Broadcasts His Face To Thousands After Snatching Phone, Arrested
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More than 20,000 people were watching the live broadcast at the time of the incident.
The advent of social media has allowed people to broadcast events as they happen in real-time. Most of these events are harmless and people use technology to reach a wider audience. Unfortunately, this did not happen for a man who stole a journalist's phone during a live broadcast in Egypt. As he snatched the phone and sped past the journalist on a motorcycle, the alleged thief unknowingly broadcast his face, casually smoking a cigarette, to thousands of viewers. The theft occurred as Mahmoud Ragheb,a journalist with news site Youm7, was reporting the aftermath of an earthquake that had hit the country this week.
More than 20,000 people were watching the live broadcast at the time of the incident, The Guardian reported. Many of them began looking for the man after footage of the incident was widely circulated on social media. Later, the suspect was arrested. His identity was not disclosed.
Meanwhile, the video of the incident has been shared more than 18,000 times on Facebook. It has been viewed 7 million times on Facebook.
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