Thread: "Барсеточники"

A criminal "profession" that specializes on the stealing the driver's bags from cars on parking lots. Usually one of them stubs the tyre and while the driver is distracted the second one quickly opens a car door from the opposite side and steals something from a car. It can be a case, or a handbag or a purse or something else.

Is there some slang name for that particular sort of rascals in English?

Originally Posted by Ramil

A criminal "profession" that specializes on the stealing the driver's bags from cars on parking lots. Usually one of them stubs the tyre and while the driver is distracted the second one quickly opens a car door from the opposite side and steals something from a car. It can be a case, or a handbag or a purse or something else.

Is there some slang name for that particular sort of rascals in English?

Car jacker?

Could you tell me what "vice" means in the following sentence (I heard it in a movie about the police)

(a cop said to his colleague The first detail I had was vice... I wanted robbery/homicide, but ... I caught vice...

No. Not in the States anyway. Carjacking would be if the rat-bastard stole the car itself. I don't know if we have a special term for this -- if you read a newspaper they'd just be called a "thieves" or maybe "purse-snatchers"?

No. Not in the States anyway.

But in England that will probably do since my dictionary says:

A carjacking is an attack on a person who is driving their own car during which things may be stolen or they may be harmed physically.

Could you tell me what "vice" means in the following sentence (I heard it in a movie about the police)

(a cop said to his colleague The first detail I had was vice... I wanted robbery/homicide, but ... I caught vice...

From the same dictionary:

Vice refers to criminal activities, especially those connected with pornography or prostitution.