Two men and a woman broke into a locker at a Manhattan gym in February and stole credit cards, the first in a series of similar thefts.Read the rest here.
Three months later, in May, a young man tried to rob a Chase bank in the Bronx armed with only a note, which he slipped to a teller. She read it and stepped away, and he fled empty-handed. Weeks later, in June, a gunman robbed a Family Dollar store in Queens.
Gym-locker heists, bank robberies, daylight holdups — these New York City crimes have only one thing in common, and it is not the culprits.
It is the Yankees caps they wore.
A curious phenomenon has emerged at the intersection of fashion, sports and crime: dozens of men and women who have robbed, beaten, stabbed and shot at their fellow New Yorkers have done so while wearing Yankees caps or clothing.
Were I a lesser man, given to sarcastic commentary directed at the evil empire, I would call this article a target rich environment. However being a Christian gentleman possessed of a charitable disposition, I shall confine myself to snickering quietly.
H/T: T-19
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