Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft chase

Re:Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft c... by TacticalCoder on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @01:11PM (#46619820)

Today in neighboring Belgium, in the city of Brussels, four people armed with machetes did hurt and kidnap a person in play daylight and put them in the trunk of their car. Thankfully police noticed something odd and a car chase, complete with helicopter, ensued.

When I was a kid in Brussels, there weren't people from the fourth world armed with machetes kidnapping people in broad daylight.

Would you qualify hurting a person (he's fine but he got hurt), kidnapping him as just a "hustle"?

Where do you draw the line? At which point do honest citizens have the right to live without fearing being kidnapped by fourth-world'ers armed with machetes?

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Re:Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft c... by lbreakjai on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @01:18PM (#46619991)

We should ask the people shooting at each other with AK47 in Anderlecht to go after the people with machetes.

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Re:Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft c... by Saline9515 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @01:13PM (#46619870)

Impressive. Has anything else changed in Brussels between your youth and now?

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Re:Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft c... by newhope1978 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @01:19PM (#46620008)

You're experiencing diversity!

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Re:Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft c... by yunohn on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @01:15PM (#46619937)

Could you clarify your usage of “fourth world” - other than as a derogatory term to refer to those you consider lower than the already quite unfortunate “third world” term?

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_World

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Re:Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft c... by normie3000 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @01:20PM (#46620059)

I assumed it was like the 4th sector:

- for-profit - government - non-profit - criminal

Or maybe the 4th estate?

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Re:Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft c... by porise on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @01:12PM (#46619851)

Nope. Only nonviolent crimes. Anyways I was just trying to draw a parallel to corporations doing harm.

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Re:Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft c... by jacquesm on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @01:18PM (#46619997)

You're about as off topic as it gets.

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Re:Dutch police have their own car stolen during car theft c... by porise on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @01:21PM (#46620069)

What kind of comments did you expect other than the one that was borderline racist with plausible deniability? What's a good conversation in this thread?

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