Verrrry smart!
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.
“Young babysitter assaulted for phone” would be a better headline
Thx!
Now wait a minute.
This might launch her career.....and she doesn’t even have to go into rehab.
“L.A.”, “young”, “female”, adding “actress” is redundant, just like adding “screenwriter” to “L.A. taxi driver”!
What part of NY? Not Manhattan; I think Manhattan is rather safe. Glad she was not hurt.
I’m still just a novelist. Got someone working on the screenplay, but without much progress.
Maybe driving a taxi is for me...
too much CSI
Believe it our not, the upper west side.
Verrrry smart!
I was just there in January and felt pretty safe there. Lots of people out in the early evening. I was near the museum (NYC Historical Society). But I guess this is in the relm of a “pickpocket” type of event. There are thieves everywhere.
Seems like it could be traced by the internal id. Any luck with that?
Fer sure, she looks crazy. I like that, for under an hour, totally.
just spreadin’ the iPhones around
Like, bummer.
Like that wasn't supposed to happen when, like I was warning people how bad it was to, like bully other people.
purses these days are like diaper bags... very big... i refrain... it's too hard to dig through to find anything...
i like to call myself, “paperback writer,” in a Paul McCartney accent...
Call her what she really is, "Waitress."
Obama's low information voter/supporters just have no brains, do they? Most liberals can't think more than 2 or 3 seconds ahead anyway.....
‘And all the stars,
That might have been,
Are pumping gas and parking cars’
(Do You Know the Way to San Jose)
Fairfax is a pretty safe neighborhood, but I wonder how late at night it was and I also wonder whether the parents of the kids she'd been watching had offered her a ride home (better idea). For this young woman, walking alone late at night, distracted, even in a "safe" neighborhood, while talking on the (visible, desirable) iPhone -- bad idea.
On the way home this evening (early evening, before 6:00 p.m.) I witnessed a few suspicious-looking young people loitering in front of a residence. They were gathered around a front stairway of the house where one was sitting (male) and the other two were looking at and calling out to passers-by (female). One of the females succeeded in stopping and bumming a cigarette from a female pedestrian who appeared to be on her phone (were they sizing her up for later?). I stopped and watched from a safe distance until the whole group got up and went on their way. One can't be too careful.
I can dig it.
The only reason I’m in paperback is that I self-published.
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