76th Precinct
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Bad tip
A crabby cabby punched his fare in the face on Sackett Street after the rider critiqued his driving on Oct. 9.
The car-service driver scooped up his fare in Brighton Beach, police said. The victim wanted a ride to his job between Smith and Hoyt streets in Carroll Gardens. The rider suggested a good route, but the driver ignored him, drove recklessly, and muttered ethnic slurs under his breath, the victim told police.
The lousy route made the man late for work, he told cops. When they got to their destination at 6:43 am, the rider got out and started taking pictures of the driver’s license plate, officials said. That’s when the grump lost it and slugged his fare in the face, according to a police report.
Hero harangued
A ruffian shook down a Good Samaritan who tried to stop the lout from yelling at a woman on Hoyt Street on Oct. 9.
The nice guy saw a bad dude arguing with a woman between Atlantic and Pacific streets in Boerum Hill at 1 am, so he tried to intervene, police said.
He told the goon to leave the girl alone, so the lout told him “Don’t move, I’m gonna search you,” according to a police report.
The brute ran when he realized the guy didn’t have anything worth stealing, officials said.
Cat scratch
Two women brawled over the pool table at a Smith Street bar on Oct. 5.
The pugnacious pair got into it sometime between midnight and 2:30 am at the bar between Carroll Street and Second Place in Carroll Gardens, police said. One woman punched the other in the face, cutting her and bruising her lip, officials said.
Art crime
A philistine broke into a Lorraine Street art studio and stole a computer sometime between Oct. 9 and 12.
The brute busted open a door to one studio in a larger complex between Court and Clinton streets in Red Hook and stole a $2,000 computer and a phone charger, police said.
The knuckleheads also jammed screws in other tenants’ door jambs, according to a police report.
— Max Jaeger
