All Brooklyn news
Neighborhood Map
Bay Ridge
  • Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights
Brooklyn Heights
  • Downtown, DUMBO
Carroll Gardens
  • Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Boerum Hill
Fort Greene
  • Clinton Hill, Crown Heights
North Brooklyn
  • Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
Park Slope
  • Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Greenwood Heights
GO Brooklyn
Dining Guide
Where to GO
Events calendar
Classifieds
The Brooklyn Wire
Not Just Nets
Police Blotter
Perspective
Parenting
Politics
Transit
Podcasts
Brooklyn Cyclones
Special sections
About The Paper
Mobile site
Twitter
Facebook
RSS Feeds

At least this thug was polite

By Natalie O’Neill
for The Brooklyn Paper

Tools

Print this story
Facebook this
Tweet this
Digg this
Del.icio.us

77th Precinct

Prospect Heights

Polite thug

A crook with manners stole a cellphone from a woman on Park Place on Aug. 30

Brooklyn Conservatory

The 37-year-old victim told cops that she was talking on her iPhone near Underhill Avenue at around 1:45 pm when the thug ran up, snatched the phone and shouted, “Thank you!” before running away.

Computer sneak

A jerk stole a laptop from an apartment on Park Place on Aug. 30.

The 38-year-old victim told cops that she forgot to lock her apartment, which is near Vanderbilt Avenue, when she left at 8 am. She came back around 6 pm and discovered that her $950 MacBook Pro was gone.

Wheels gone

A quick-moving thief jacked a sweet bike on Lincoln Place on Aug. 31.

The 47-year-old cyclist told cops that she locked her Ventura racing bike to a gate near Classon Avenue at 8 pm then came back 40 minutes later to find that the thug had cut the lock and stolen her $850 ride.

— Natalie O’Neill

©2011 Community Newspaper Group

←Park Slope: This means war! Old Stone House burglarized
→Bay Ridge: Thieving bandits are wheely bad this week

Reader Feedback

Enter your comment below

By submitting this comment, you agree to the following terms:

You agree that you, and not BrooklynPaper.com or its affiliates, are fully responsible for the content that you post. You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening or sexually-oriented material or any material that may violate applicable law; doing so may lead to the removal of your post and to your being permanently banned from posting to the site. You grant to BrooklynPaper.com the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part world-wide and to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.

First name
Last name
Your neighborhood
Email address
Daytime phone

Your letter must be signed and include all of the information requested above. (Only your name and neighborhood are published with the letter.) Letters should be as brief as possible; while they may discuss any topic of interest to our readers, priority will be given to letters that relate to stories covered by The Brooklyn Paper.

Letters will be edited at the sole discretion of the editor, may be published in whole or part in any media, and upon publication become the property of The Brooklyn Paper. The earlier in the week you send your letter, the better.

Tomasos Restaurant

Links