The Bochur then rushed to the nearest phone and called Shomrim who put out a description of the boy and began canvassing the area for him immediately, after being unsuccessful in finding him they took the Bochur home and called the police and filed a police report.
During the time they were filing the report a phone call to the Bochurs house came from a pawn shop saying the he has the Bochurs hat! What happened was that this perp after taking the Bochurs hat, he had jumped on a city bus and got to Atlantic Ave. and Fulton St. and walked into a pawn shop and tried to sell it to the pawn broker, who recognized the hat and took it from this boy and chased him away, then went to look for any way to identify the hats owner, inside the lining of the hat was the Bochurs name and home phone number, and the pawn broker called saying that he can come and retrieve the hat! The perp was not caught.
I would like to take this opportunity and mention how important it is to file a police report on any incident relating to racial violence or any crime whatsoever, because a crime not reported is a crime that didn’t happen!
Bochur Taunted and Assaulted
Thursday night a young Bochur (13) on his way home from Yeshiva, passed a black boy who was around the age of 13 to 14 years old, who started to call him by racial slurs and taunt him. When the Bochur didn’t respond with violence the boy grabbed the Bochurs hat off his head and ran.
The Bochur then rushed to the nearest phone and called Shomrim who put out a description of the boy and began canvassing the area for him immediately, after being unsuccessful in finding him they took the Bochur home and called the police and filed a police report.
During the time they were filing the report a phone call to the Bochurs house came from a pawn shop saying the he has the Bochurs hat! What happened was that this perp after taking the Bochurs hat, he had jumped on a city bus and got to Atlantic Ave. and Fulton St. and walked into a pawn shop and tried to sell it to the pawn broker, who recognized the hat and took it from this boy and chased him away, then went to look for any way to identify the hats owner, inside the lining of the hat was the Bochurs name and home phone number, and the pawn broker called saying that he can come and retrieve the hat! The perp was not caught.
I would like to take this opportunity and mention how important it is to file a police report on any incident relating to racial violence or any crime whatsoever, because a crime not reported is a crime that didn’t happen!
shmuly
i guess we can all take a lesson from this story and realize that it is important to put our name AND phone number’s in our belongings, and to call shomrim when something like this happens. because we all know that the police would not bother looking around for a kid who stole someones hat.
Shmuli
couldn’t say it any better. and what an interesting story, at least he got his hat back.
OT bochur
the pawn shop owner should of call the cops while the kid was still in his shope & let the cops arrest the kid.
other guy
ot bochur: that was a pretty naive comment. do you really think the kid would sit and wait for the cops?!
Think!
What do you think, the pawnshop owner would turn in a black boy in a black neighborhood for a Jew? So he did the next best thing, returned the property.
I think he acted properly.
Yeka Staff
The best thing is to have them put your email address in the hat instead of the useless initials..
OT bochur
other guy,
he should of started a conversation with the little shvartzeh bochurel untill the cops come!
& to "THINK!"
is that the way you feel about your fellow citizen?
Dovid
Wow, that’s a crazy story!
other guy
sorry ot but your assuming he could make the call without the "bochur" knowing what hes doing. who says he had a back room? besides dont you know how long i take nypd to respond to a non emergency? it wont be easy keeping that kid there for half an hour waiting.
anyway its easy to criticise but instead lets be neighbourly and thankfull to the guy