Office pee-on
Police arrested a vandal who broke into a Smith Street warehouse on Jan. 8 and urinated on the floor.
The accused 36-year-old barged into a factory between Bay and Sigourney streets at 6:30 pm, according to the police report. Details about what happened next are soaked in mystery, but the burglar apparently got through the main door.
Whether or not he intended to steal anything is unknown, but he answered nature’s call on the floor and sneered at an employee “F— you, you want me to pay to pee?!”
Mr. Mug
A pony-tailed hooligan mugged a 12-year-old boy near the corner of Henry Street and Fourth Place on Jan. 9.
At 8:15 am, the villain asked the 12-year-old, “What do you have in your pockets?” The schoolboy surrendered $5 to the bully.
Ten to one
A pack of men mugged another man near the corner of Clinton and Congress streets on Jan. 7.
The 43-year-old victim said that after he walked a friend to the Bergen Street subway station, one member of the 10-man gang asked him what time it was. After replying that it was 9 pm, the man walked away but was followed around the block by the horde. One ruffian punched him in the face, knocked him to the ground and stole his wallet, containing $25.
Phone sharks
Police apprehended two teenage boys accused of stealing a younger lad’s cellphone on the corner of Butler and Smith streets on Jan. 7.
The cuffed crooks, 15 and 17, were half of a quartet who jumped the victim, 13, from behind and said “Don’t move, give me your phone” at 3:46 pm. The rest of the foursome escaped.
Take, leave it
A crook took tools left in a commercial van on Tiffany Place on Jan. 5.
The handyman said he parked the company car between Kane and Degraw streets at 8:30 am. When he ventured back at 3:15 pm after working in a nearby site, he found one of the doors broken open and that he was missing a socket set, and several drills.
— Mike McLaughlin
