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An attempted robbery during a Facebook Marketplace meet-up went terribly wrong for one thief after the seller decided to take matters into his own hands.
Auckland resident Joker Lim listed his iPhone on the trading platform before setting a time and place to meet up with who he thought was a legitimate buyer.
During the exchange, Lim said he was asked about a charger, which wasn’t part of the deal.
That’s when things took a turn.
“I say I don’t have a charger when I turn around, he [ran away],” Lim told the Focus. “So I just chased him.
“I didn’t think about the safety or anything. I just run. I [didn’t] want to lose my money.”
Wearing only slippers on his feet, Lim took off on a five-minute foot chase down the road and through a park before catching the robber and taking back his phone.
He started to record his exchange with the man in which he questioned him over his identity and why he had run off.
The offender claimed to be a 17-year-old school student who wanted to steal the iPhone “for his family”.
In the video, he apologised and said he “learned his lesson”, claiming it was the first time he had done anything like it.
Lim filed a police report shortly after the incident, attaching screenshots from the video as evidence.