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Video: Empty iPad Box On Subway Gets Snatched Up For Laffs
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Christopher Robbins
Published Apr 23, 2012
Modified Apr 24, 2012
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iPad and iPhone thefts are up by 44% from last year, but what if the Transit Gods want to make your day and bestow an iPad upon you, to make up for the fact that your goddamn MetroCard de-magnetized for the third time in a week? Alas, that would actually be the work of teenagers, who have got to stop ruining everything for everyone.
Also, can we get more of a payoff? A nut-canister snake? Or a real one? Something? And their designation of the victim as an "asshole" unintentionally illustrates what's wrong with the NYPD's Operation Lucky Bag: who wouldn't pick this thing up? Or maybe you're just an asshole for thinking something good could happen to you on the subway.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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