Two brazen crooks stole a moped by using an angle grinder to cut through the lock on a busy street.
Pedestrians walked by as the pair were able to pinch the scooter in just 13 seconds.
The helmet wearing duo arrived on another scooter and one was wearing a hi-viz jacket.
He could be seen getting the power tool out and bent down near the back wheel of the moped they were targeting.
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The thief then lay down on the ground as he finished off the job, while the other crook stood guard.
They were not put off by passing traffic on the road in the capital.
After chopping through the chain he then put the angle grinder under the seat of their scooter.
The other man – clad in black with light trousers – tried to wheel the pinched moped away from the motorcycle bay at the side of the steeet.
But he struggled to get it started on Goodman’s Yard, near Tower Hill, in Wapping, east London.
An onlooker from a building opposite filmed it on their mobile phone in a 37-second video.
The discarded bike lock was left on the pavement. Locals slammed the crooks, as reported by Need To Know.
Danny Wren fumed: “We used to live in a high trust society, remember that.”
Aidan said: “Not a care in the world.”
Another added: “Nobody stopped them?”
A fourth joked: “Pretty standard stuff, they would have then pushed it for a couple of miles unchallenged by police.”
Vik Singh said: “Crazyness.”
Barham added: “Welcome to s*ithole on earth.”
Sunny Johal said: “More scum of the earth out loose on the streets of London.”
It comes after a spate of similar thefts using the power tool.In
April, a crook was spotted using an angle grinder to pinch a moped outside a pub in Chiswick, west London.
It came after an attempted theft of a scooter the same night six miles away in a residential street in Earlsfield, south west London.
Also in April, a bicycle was pinched in the same way in Shoreditch, east London.
The City of London Police has been approached for comment.
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