By Sabrina Jaszi for the Brooklyn Paper
WILLIAMSBURG — A thief stole the fancy holiday hat off a Hasidic man’s head on Friday night, October 2nd, the first night of Sukkos.
The victim was walking from Shul at around 9:30pm and was near Wallabout Street and Throop Avenue when two young men approached him from behind. One of them lifted the man’s shtreimel, a fur hat with a $1,200 price tag, then both ran off.
Mugged for His $1,200 Shtreimel!
By Sabrina Jaszi for the Brooklyn Paper
WILLIAMSBURG — A thief stole the fancy holiday hat off a Hasidic man’s head on Friday night, October 2nd, the first night of Sukkos.
The victim was walking from Shul at around 9:30pm and was near Wallabout Street and Throop Avenue when two young men approached him from behind. One of them lifted the man’s shtreimel, a fur hat with a $1,200 price tag, then both ran off.
Police are still searching for the suspects.
In the hood
Oy! What will be next…..a Womens Shaitel? They’re worth much more than $1200…..
strange idea
what are the kids going to do with it? If they try to sell it won’t ppl be suspicious as to where they got it from?
meir not from new haven
it’s the latest business in w-berg. stealing and re-selling strimloc back to the original owners at a deep discount of course.
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he wanted to wear it himself :)
be on the lookout for a shvartze with a shtreimel… LOL
Mottel
i’m glad you all think it’s funny – how would you feel if someone stole something of value to you – your kapote, or a borsalino, or a sheitel take? Just because we don’t where streimelach – where’s your rachmonos for yiddishe gelt? Your ahavas yisroel? Mistama this guy will now have to spend a lot of money to buy another one…
mendy
Get insurance. I saw a shvazah the other day with a streimel.
was the chosid wearing a streimel or a spodek.
Zvulun
It’s pretty bigoted to assume it was a shvartze that stole his shtreimel. It’s much easier for a yid to blend in with a stolen shtreimel…