Viral Video: Boy Walking On The Platform Snatches Passenger's Phone From Moving Train

Pickpockets are everywhere in India, on trains, buses and even popular tourist spots. They are experts at snatching your phones and wallets, and they're gone from the scene before you can even react. This recently surfaced video captures one such moment in its full glory. In it, a young boy walking on the platform puts his hand inside the window of a moving train, snatches a passenger's phone and runs away in the blink of an eye. Here's what went on.

How did the boy manage to steal a phone from a moving train?

The boy casually walked up to the window and put his hand inside | Image: Instagram

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It's unclear where and when the incident occurred, but comments mention Satna and Rewa in Madhya Pradesh. The clip opens to a frame of a young boy casually walking on a railway platform while a train picks up speed. He can be seen walking suspiciously close to the locomotive and his intentions are revealed only seconds later.?

As the train chugs away, he puts his hand in one of the windows apparently already having locked in on his target for the day. In the next moment, there are shocked faces left looking at the window while the boy turns around and in two quick sprints runs away with a passenger's phone in his hand.

What was the internet's reaction?

He ran from the scene in seconds | Image: Instagram

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The video, shared by Aditya Kumar Soni on Instagram, raked in a whopping 74.8 million views, 1.8 million likes and comments to match. "Camera man never die and never help," wrote one user. "Jo video bna rha hai usko pakadna chahiye tha na," observed a second. A third recounted a similar experience, "Broo i had the same experience and its too traumatized moment for me but the end i get my phone back because i jump from the running train in the platform."

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