"Like, this is how, like, I got punched like."
Posted on 04/11/2013 8:03:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A young actress was allegedly assaulted and mugged for her cellphone last week in Los Angeles’ Fairfax District.
JT Vancollie said she was walking home from babysitting Friday night when a teenage girl approached her at Sierra Bonita Avenue and 8th Street.
“She said, ‘Hey, I’m trying to get my friend to help me get home. Could I use your cellphone?’” said Vancollie.
The victim said the suspect started dialing repeatedly.
“She starts to run away. I run after her like, ‘Are you kidding… I was trying to help you…like, what are you doing?’” Vancollie told CBS2’s Serene Branson.
The actress said another girl and three teen boys were waiting nearby.
“She says to her other friends who were right there…she said… ‘Get her!’ One of the guys punches me in the face, I fall to the ground, and he steals my purse,” said Vancollie.
She continued, “They punched me so hard my nose started bleeding.”
Vancollie, who has been featured in an anti-bullying campaign, decided to put up flyers in the neighborhood for her missing belongings.
She found her purse, which had been emptied except for an issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.
Vancollie said she took the magazine to police for fingerprints.
Detectives said “cellphone snatching” is on the rise.
“Now with the new iPhones being so valuable and easy to sell on the black market, we’re seeing an increase in cellphone thefts,” said Sgt. James Tomeo of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Vancollie said people may need to rethink helping a stranger.
“If you’re alone, don’t stop for anyone. As innocent as they look, they might not be,” she said.
Who the heck wrote that headline? I was wondering how you mug somebody over the phone. I know the Three Stooges used to be able to do it but I always thought that was fake.
....dusting for prints on a mag is like numbering fleas
"Like, this is how, like, I got punched like."
I doubt if the even PD bothered.
guess she's not as tough as she thinks she is...
If she is a Liberal, will she become a conservative?
ya beat me...
At least she is getting smart. I don't know what her political leanings may have been before this incident, but this kind of thing often converts liberal into conservatives.
She has a website: http://www.jtvancollie.com/JT_Vancollie/Welcome.html
My daughter’s cell phone was stripped from her hands by two punks on the streets of New York just a few weeks ago. This story hits a little too close to home.
Hope they catch those punks.
I think it is quite ironic that her ‘major’ (or at least the one that is memorable) gig was in an anti bullying documentary and a chick and 3 ‘bullies’ beat her up and stole her lunch money (well purse but I am trying to keep in theme - and doing a ‘better’ job than the genius(es) that composed and published this little news filler.
An issue of Cosmopolitan in her purse???? sounds more like a briefcase......
I guess it can be assumed that the perps are not into fashion etc.
So, um all like, and she’s like, and then, like, she, like....
Ditto.
The mugger is a victim too.
He is poor and the actress must try and understand his situation.
Odd that the article provided the number of muggers, their gender, and their age range, but not what they looked like. I wonder why.
Sigh! The movie was a major letdown after Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence.
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