Here’s a tidbit from this week’s 76th Precinct’s Police Blotter:
Courier Life: Five teens robbed snatched a man’s iPhone inside the Carroll Street train station on Aug. 2.
The 37-year-old victim told cops that he was on the southbound platform under Smith and President streets at around noon when he was surrounded by five teens with bad intentions.
When one post-pubescent punk grabbed his phone, the victim wrestled with the underage thugs, to no avail.
But Transit cop Rene Soto was on the scene quicker than you can say “Steve Jobs” and arrested three of the five member crew, two aged 15, and the third aged 16-years-old.
a few years back something similar happened to me at the bergen st stop. a group of 4 teenagers demanded my wallet when i was putting my metrocard back in it. i went to hand it to the biggest of the bunch, and instead threw a haymaker that knocked him flat out. the others just ran. i then got on the subway and always wondered what happened to that neanderthal. i know… not the smartest move.