“If the police are ineffective, just do it yourself” seems to be the motto of many featured in these pages, and so it was when a thief stole a mobile phone from a Phnom Penh wedding on Thursday.

A man was resting and listening to music on his phone when the thief ran in, snatched the phone and tried to escape on a waiting motorbike.

Unfortunately for him, he was chased down by the victim and others, and attacked before police intervened. His driver got away. KOH SANTEPHEAP