I thank you project boy X and project boy Y for robbing me of my cell phone in the parking lot of the Hong Kong Supermarket last Sunday. When you approached my car in the snow, I thought you were getting ready to rob me. I thought I'd give you the benefit of the doubt and saw no harm in telling you the time when you politely asked for it. When I pulled my cell phone out of my jacket pocket to tell you, you, boy X lunged out and grabbed it out of my hand and started walking away. I gave chase to you across the street shouting for help and a driver did help me by calling the police in the middle of the housing project (Philadelphia Housing Authority) across the street. Do you live there? It's a little scary and the cops told me I didn't want to go in there because of drugs and guns. Rarely does a complaining witness know the exact time of the crime but you grabbed the phone out of my hand just after I announced to you "5:05 [pm]" Officer Acosta arrived within a couple minutes of the telephone call from the driver who came to my assistance and other officers tried to track your sneaker prints in the snow. At the police station on Harbison, which I had been to about 40 years ago with my grandfather Police Captain Henry H. Brown [dec'd], I had a good conversation with Police Detective Lauf (sp?) and another detective brought me 8 mug shots and I think I picked you out.
You had a good laugh when you tricked me and got my phone and now I am going to find you because we're going to have a good laugh together but after we get you brought before a judge, charged and convicted of robbery and placed in a program that gives you the supports you need to become a happy, productive and law abiding adult...you're wellspoken, fleet of foot, and have a sense of humor.
And, more than making sure school is working out for you or perhaps getting a tutor or probation officer or whatever, we're going to find you a job, because you owe me $ for the phone. ... your victim intends to collect the debt you owe him!
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