Klepto's Chinese takeout

New York Post ^ | April 10, 2011 | CYNTHIA R. FAGEN

[ConservativeStatement]

For a Vietnamese émigré accused of robbing only Chinese people, familiarity breeds contempt.

But then Hanoi-born Ha Vasko, 68 -- a slight woman whose toothpick frame vanishes into her brown drab Rikers Island jail uniform -- is not your typical pickpocket.

The serial thief usually flies Delta from Melbourne, Fla., where she lives richly with her golfing American husband in a $400,000 waterfront home, to New York City's cacophonous Chinatown with only one thing on her mind.

[ConservativeStatement]

This is one unusual adventure.

[humblegunner]

Chickity China Chinese Chicken:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd4XaLwXpLQ

[Lazlo in PA]

Very odd person with an even stranger mission. She looks kinda like Chin from Hawaii 5-0.

[Slings and Arrows]

BFL

[Ronin]

That one is just plain weird...

[The_Media_never_lie]

Just, wow!

[Slings and Arrows]

...and then some.

[Slings and Arrows]

[ApplegateRanch]

Married for 41 years, the pair met in 1972 at the end of the Vietnam War. He was a civilian engineer working on military satellites, and she was working behind a Hanoi bar.

Am I nuts, or is there something screwy about an American engineer "working on military satellites" meeting his soon to be wife in a Hanoi bar, in 1972?

[dixiechick2000]

“Melbourne, Fla., where she lives richly with her golfing American husband in a $400,000 waterfront home...”

A $400K WATERFRONT home? Really? I need to get me one of those!

“Married for 41 years, the pair met in 1972 at the end of the Vietnam War. He was a civilian engineer working on military satellites, and she was working behind a Hanoi bar.”

There’s something strange about a “civilian engineer working on military satellites, and she was working behind a Hanoi bar.”

Don’t you think so? Obviously you do, or you wouldn’t have posted your cute and confused smileys. ;o)

[Slings and Arrows]

There’s something strange about a “civilian engineer working on military satellites, and she was working behind a Hanoi bar.”

I suspect it means that most journalists are as ignorant of geography as they are of economics.

[TheOldLady]

Next she’ll get four years for “hate crimes” since she openly admitted that she hates the Chinese.

She belongs in a psychiatric hospital. After all, she “can’t help herself.” That’s insane behavior.

[Lady Jag]

She’s a kleptomaniac; can’t help herself from helping herself.

[Slings and Arrows]

She can’t steal like that - the government hates the competition.

[TheOldLady]

That’s why they’re going to throw the book at her.

[Lady Jag]

You watch, all mention of her will vanish and she’ll turn up working for the feds.

[Silentgypsy]

“...she’ll turn up working for the feds.” I’d rather have her working for us.

[Slings and Arrows]

She’ll be working for the Men In Black?

[Slings and Arrows]

*snicker*

[Cyber Liberty]

Nah. Not surprising. The guy could have been working ground stations (the 1/2 of the system that’s not in orbit).