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Thursday, 19 December 2024

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‘Londoners beware’: Influencer’s warning after brazen Birkin bag theft on Oxford Street


An influencer is warning other women shopping in London’s West End “to beware” after CCTV caught the moment her new £10,000 Birkin bag was stolen as she tried on clothes at a boutique.

Model Janice Joostema, who boasts 1.2million followers on Instagram, said it had been “gut-wrenching” to watch a female thief swipe the item while she got undressed in a VIP changing room at Manière De Voir on Oxford Street.



Surely that's a successful bit of influencing. Perhaps not the kind of personal influence an influencer would wish to influence, but effective.

I wonder if Starmer counts himself as an influencer? Whizzing around the world as he does, suggests he isn't a good influencer because he has to work so hard at it. He doesn't have a £10,000 Birkin bag though. Not yet anyway. 

12 comments:

Macheath said...

He doesn't have a £10,000 Birkin bag though. Not yet, anyway’; perhaps Lord Alli can help out with that.

Incidentally - with apologies for being reprehensibly puerile - I’ve just remembered that Alli was the name of the weight loss wonder-drug from the early 2000s which became notorious for its singularly unpleasant digestive consequences - just google ‘Alli side-effects’.

There’s definitely a joke in there somewhere…

Peter MacFarlane said...

£10,000 for a handbag?

I’ve inspected the sympathy meter; it’s firmly stuck on zero.

A K Haart said...

Macheath - allow me to be more puerile - "Should I carry on with Alli or not? I'm caught between two stools."

Peter - mine too, but I feel we need a meter which reads lower than zero.

Sam Vega said...

“gut-wrenching” to watch a female thief swipe the item while she got undressed in a VIP changing room

I guess it's nice to know that it's been stolen by another VIP, though.

A K Haart said...

Sam - yes, even in changing rooms it's unwise to trust a VIP.

Tammly said...

All the way up to minus 11!

Tammly said...

'Puritans' like me would consider 10k too much to be spent on a handbag.

A K Haart said...

Tammly - I thought it was rather a lot too. It wasn't even as useful as a rucksack.

djc said...

Did it really happen, or is it a publicity stunt?

A K Haart said...

djc - it's hard to tell with some of these minor stories which are never followed up. It's not a good CCTV image of the supposed thief, but such images rarely are.

Macheath said...

‘Alli; oiling the workings of the Labour Party since 1997’

A K Haart said...

Macheath - flushed with... no I'm going puerile again.