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Is A Turkey In Your Pants, Or Are You Just Happy To Rob Me?

2010_10_turkey.jpg A Brooklyn teen was arrested after allegedly stealing a turkey breast on Monday. Deon Williams was arrested after a Bedford-Stuyvesant grocery's surveillance camera caught him taking a 12-pound turkey breast and putting it into his sweat pants. An indignant cashier at the Fine Fare Grocery yelled to the butcher, "He's got a big turkey in his pants!" So butcher Serigo Marte gave chase.

The Post reports that Marte yelled at the 19-year-old, "You have something in your pants!" Williams replied, "I'll give it to you -- don't touch me!" Marte said he didn't want to touch him—he just wanted the turkey. "Williams dumped it on the street, and when Marte bent over to pick it up, the teen clocked him in the jaw, the butcher said. 'He swung at me, and then he ran,' the 42-year-old butcher said, showing off a still-swollen cheek." The store also shared video of the turkey breast-swipe:

The grocery's owner said, "We know this guy. He had two friends with him. I believe they were learning from him. Even though customers were there, he did it right in front of them." Williams is due in court on November 15 to face charges of robbery, petit larceny and criminal possession of the stolen poultry. He has a previous arrest for trying to steal Red Bull from a bodega.

And the turkey breast? It went back into the deli display for sale.

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  • Kelles

    The eternal optimist says: it's good to see this young fellow shoplifting a lean turkey breast instead of an unhealthy, fatty corned beef!

  •  LOL!!! this is really hilarious, at least the teen is concern about his health and choose a healthy meat instead of a processed one.

  • freddynyc

    +1

  • NlGGAZ

    Meanwhile, a white kid the same age created facebook and made a billion dollars.

  • ktinnyc

    Yes, there is only one white kid and one black kid in all the world. Whites 1 - Blacks 0.

  • mellow_fellow

    "...Even though customers were there, he did it right in front of them."
    I hope he didn't expect the customers to do anything more than notify a store employee.

  • TimSPC

    A Brooklyn teen was arrested after allegedly robbing a turkey breast on Monday.

    Is the turkey breast going to press charges?

  • That'd be awesome—I'm totally for deil meats standing up for what's right! (Thanks for the catch!)

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