Grrrr.

[erik822]

This isn't bike related. I just want to vent.

So, I'm sitting in a coffeeshop, phone in front of me - because I'm using it to work - and some a$$munch grabs my phone from the table and bolts out the door. He was down the block before I was really aware of what the little @#$%er had done.

Really, really annoying.

OK, done venting. I feel better now.

[fasterblkduc]

There is no way that I would have let that make the beast with two backser go. I've been training this summer to condition for racing and I would have worn his ass down, then beat him within an inch of his life. 

So, what coffee shop was it?

[filter]

That's horrible.

Was it an iPhone?  They have this neat "Find My iPhone" feature that lets you know where your phone is in case it gets stolen (or at least remote wipe it).

[mrs minnesotamonster]

People really do that? Wow...that's just wrong.

[cyclops]

Wow! thats just nuts ... I agree with Gabe, i would have prob chased him ... not sure wat i wud have once caught up with him 

[Sgt_H]

   though there should probably a swinging billy club smily thingy.... 

took a report of a very similar thing last night.  Though it was just off the table and not out of the person's hands.  That kind of theft is pretty common actually.

[erik822]

  though there should probably a swinging billy club smily thingy.... 

took a report of a very similar thing last night.  Though it was just off the table and not out of the person's hands.  That kind of theft is pretty common actually.

It was off the table in front of me. At Sister Sludge. I had been working on it and set it down. Were you one of the people who took the report from me?

[Sgt_H]

Wasn't me.  mine was a female victim

[rgramjet]

Un Fing believable!  I would have chased that muther f-er down or died trying..... 

Some punks broke into my Jeep years ago and dialed my parents house to tell whomever answered what they had just done, at like 3am.  Found my phone in pieces in the parking lot the next morning and a broken drivers side window.   Grrrr!  Hope they catch that POS.

[erik822]

I would have given chase, but I still had a laptop on the table, so I couldn't risk losing that in the ruckus. It took a few seconds to figure who was still in the coffee shop and to verify that my laptop would be ok. In that time he was gone.

I tend to be pretty aware of my surroundings, and looking at it in retrospect, I think I've pieced together how he worked:

Step 1: He walked past the coffee shop, saw my iphone through the window. Was probably looking for something easy to grab, phone, unattended laptop, etc.
Step 2: He called his buddy from a bench outside (where I first noticed him)
Step 3: He came in, got a water and sat down at the table behind me. He was there for a little while and called someone on his phone. He mentioned hanging out for a few minutes and then heading to the Domino's across the street. I suspect he called his friend and told him where to wait. Then he just waited for his friend to drive by.
Step 4: Once his friend was in place, he snagged the phone and sprinted across the street to his friend's car in the alley and took off.

[Sgt_H]

It's amazing how much work some people do to avoid having to work

[silvrayn]

It's also amazing how smart dumb people are sometimes. :-/