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Crook Reaches Through Window to Swipe Laptop From Man's Lap

by Warren Riddle on July 10, 2009 at 02:01 PM


Several weeks ago, brazen thieves stole 31 computer monitors from a Canadian man's driveway as he was preparing to load them for transport. In Minneapolis on the 4th of July, an even more audacious (or inebriated) would-be bandit reached through local resident Jesse Phoutthaphaphone's window and stole his laptop, directly out of the shocked Phoutthaphaphone's hands.

According to local NBC affiliate KARE 11, the victim, who had been checking out his MySpace page dressed only in his skivvies, bolted from the house and chased the thief into a nearby resident's garage. With the neighbor's help, the thief was overpowered, but, alas, the laptop hit the ground and shattered during the battle. The two men did manage to subdue the culprit until police arrived, though.

In an obvious ploy to appear on CSI: Miami (or, maybe he's just seen one too many action movies), Minneapolis Police Sgt. Jesse Garcia told KARE that, "They caught him and now the only window he's going to be reaching through is a window with bars." YEEEAAAAHHHH!!!! [From: KARE 11]

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