Fancy Scarf Thief Will Use The 'Starbucks OMG Defense'

Every globe-trotting, British royals-kissing Manhattan socialite who is accused of stealing an $11,000 fur-lined scarf gets one hilarious defense—and fashion designer Beata Boman already used that up, when she claimed that she inadvertently put the scarf in her handbag because she was distressed after receiving a call from a friend "about to have brain surgery." But now, Boman is supplementing the brain surgery excuse with a Starbucks Defense: "We believe the Starbucks video will reveal an 'OMG' moment." If the lady had no drink, then she must have meant to return it.

Boman's lawyer said he plans to subpoena the footage from a Starbucks close to Richards Of Greenwich, the store in Connecticut where Boman took the scarf, to prove she really was planning on returning it once she realized she had walked out of the store with it: "She rushed out without buying coffee." Without buying a Venti Chai Latte, people!

Will Boman go down as another Privileged Girl Who Steals Expensive Things Even Though She Can Afford Them? Or will this turn out to be the first time in history that someone really was planning on returning the thing they stole?

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By Ben Yakas in Food on June 17, 2011 12:45 PM

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Guest

How about the courts settle this by giving her no jail time and a clean record if they allow me to kick her in the mouth until she swallows two teeth?

Ingridz

Actually, I did do that once. I picked up a book while browsing in a Borders. It was a book I would never have purchased or even have an interest in, I don't even know why I picked it up. And I was in the parking lot about ready to open my car door when I realized I had it in my hands! I had a moment of panic and was afraid to walk back and return it. When I think what would have happened if the book had one of those magnetic strips in it....all because of an absent minded mistake. When I got home, I threw the book in the trash. I don't even remember what it was.
This was during a period of my life when I was under a lot of stress...I'm not defending her, I'm just saying that things like this really do happen.

Brendon Clark

Whoever took that mugshot intentionally framed it so.

FU Boy

"No, you don't have to hold up that little board with the numbers. We, ah, don't do that in CT."

FU Boy

Soooooo, her defense is that she's stupid? Good luck with that.

ONE_LESS_FIXED_GEAR

It may work...hell, she looks dumb as a box of hammers.

FU Boy

Derp, derp, huuuuur - oopsie - I'm blonde!

Seriously, though - I think she should be sternly punished. By me. I have wondrous torture ideas in mind for those magnificent mammaries.