A pair of phone thieves got a taste of instant karma when a driver rammed their bike with his car.
CCTV footage shows how the crooks rode towards a car and threatened the woman behind the wheel.
Seconds after she handed over her phone through the window, a second car hurtled towards the thieves.
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It hit them head-on, shunting them backwards off their bike.
As one crook attempted to get back on the motorcycle, the driver rammed him again.
He was knocked off the bike and into his accomplice, nearly foot-sweeping him.
As the pair scarpered in different directions, the driver ran over the damaged bike as it lay on the tarmac.
He briefly accelerated towards one of the men before turning around and returning to the scene.
The shaken woman emerged from her car seconds later.
The two-minute-long drama unfolded on Saturday (24 Aug) morning in Guayaquil, southwest of Quito, Ecuador.
Ecuador has been experiencing a security crisis since December 2020, as reported by Need To Know.
There were about 3,000 homicides in the country in the first half of this year alone.
More than 110,000 people have been arrested since 2021.
Some social media users weren’t impressed with the male driver’s actions.
Commenting on the apparent collision between the two cars, Juan wrote: “What a favour he did for the girl. It would have been better for her to lose the phone.
“Now she’ll end up with an even bigger bill for the car repairs.”
The police advise members of the public not to take justice into their own hands.
