A New Purse Snatcher: The Lunchtime Bandit

While the man who suspected of stealing women's purses during the morning subway commute has been caught, it turns out there's another fiend with a similar penchant. The Post says a "well-dressed, well-coiffed daytime purse-snatcher has been targeting unsuspecting women as they lunch at Midtown tourist spots."

The thief, who seems to be 35-45 years old and between 5'11" and 6'1" with brown hair, is connected to eight robberies in recent weeks, looking for chairs with women's handbags hanging on them. The Post explains, "surveillance tapes show the scoundrel on April 21, at Chef Yu near Penn Station, casually placing his jacket on the back of a chair, grabbing the handbag by the strap and strolling out." Ladies--keep your purses close to you!

Other restaurants he's hit: The Bread Factory Cafe on Seventh Avenue at 36th Street, Case Europa on Fifth Avenue at 44th Street, Café Duke on Broadway between 40th and 41st Streets, and Koryodang Bakery on West 32nd Street near Broadway.

Photograph of Dax Shephard (who is NOT a suspect), shooting When in Rome with a man purse, by nyer82 on Flickr

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By Jen Chung in News on May 27, 2008 1:14 PM

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sonyactivision

The fag with the manbag? Totally complicitous. It's guys like him driving all these pursesnatchings by sashaying down the street trying to look all Etro and leading the real fiends to believe that all those women are theirs for the taking and no dude out there will stop them.

MFer

Who the fuck is Dax?

garbnzgh

dear gothamist..

on behalf of unrelated dudes in pictures, don't use unrelated photos to describe criminal activity.

thanks.

Såkandulæredet

Dax better not sue me since Gothamist used my picture for a completely unrelated story! Then again, I'm happy my photo made it on the website to begin with.

Scene synopsis: Extremely muscley dude stands around shirtless and gawks at women. Then he has an argument with his friend, and then leaves the scene with his man purse. The End

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