Half-baked
A villain bit off more than he could chew in a failed robbery at a Waverly Avenue bakery on Aug. 6.
Police arrested a 42-year-old man who demanded money from an employee standing outside the bread factory between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue at 12:30 pm. The worker had none, but the scoundrel issued the unusual — and perhaps even tempting — threat, “You better give me something if you don’t want to end up in paradise.”
The intended victim and mugger entered the bakery, where the villain demanded $100 from another worker. The crook fled without stealing anything, but cops captured him.
Crouch potato
An intruder attempted, but failed to burglarize a Clinton Hill house while man watching television in his home on Aug. 3.
The TV-watcher, 50, bolted downstairs upon hearing an unusual noise in his home between Lafayette and Greene avenues at 9 pm. He noticed that his window had been damaged, but nothing was taken.
Red bamboozled
A thief stole $900 from Red Bamboo, the popular Adelphi Street vegetarian restaurant, on Aug. 4.
The heist, captured on videotape, occurred around 9 am in the eatery at the corner of DeKalb Avenue when a man entered the establishment.
Pummeled
A horde of men viciously beat another man at the corner of Grand and Lexington avenues on Aug. 4.
Witnesses said that five to seven men attacked the victim at 10 pm, punching and kicking him so badly that he was taken to Kings County Hospital. The villains reportedly took his wallet and cellphone.
Laptop lame
A hooligan ransacked a Washington Avenue apartment on Aug. 5 by sneaking through a rear window.
The victim, 30, said she was not in her home, between Willoughby and DeKalb avenues, from 8 am to 6 pm. She told police that the thief stole two laptops, a camera and a bike, and left her window screen ajar.
Pedal meddle
Lock-busting hooligans stole two of four bicycles that a woman claims she had locked at the Atlantic Terminal plaza on Flatbush Avenue on Aug. 6.
The woman shopped in the galleria from 3:40 pm to 4:20 pm, but when she exited the mall, between Hanson Place and Atlantic Avenue, she found a clipped bike lock and discovered that two of her velocipedes were missing.
