Yoink! Burglar snatches laptop from window as man types
By Jen Boyles in Crime, Stupid Stunts
Fri., Jul. 10 2009 @ 1:10PM
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| Photo by Veronica Belmont via Flickr |
It's a beautiful day. You're sitting at your breakfast nook near an open window, the gentle breeze blowing at your bedhead as you sip your coffee and reply to a PG-13 email from your sweetie, who you know is daydreaming about your biceps at work. Life is good. You type, "H-E-Y-(space)G-I-R-L-(space)W-H-A---- YOINK.
An arm reaches into your window and boldly grabs your laptop from the table, right from under your fingers.
WTF.
A North Minneapolis man is likely the only man in the state who knows this scenario painfully well.
"The guy and another neighbor ended up chasing the [thief] down and held him for police and he was arrested," Sgt. Jesse Garcia told City Pages. "Imagine working near your ground floor window and someone coming along and snatching it from you! Hopefully the next window he reaches through will have bars on it."Over the Fourth Of July weekend, a thief decided he needed this laptop more than its owner.
Sgt. Garcia said there's been a lot of petty theft crimes in Minneapolis of late.
"We haven't had much big news lately - homicides are down, crimes are down," he said. "So we're focusing a bit on some of these smaller crimes. But people are getting tired of the riff-raff."
No word on whether the laptop survived the scuffle.






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