75-year-old Floridian Chases Down Laptop Thief
75-year-old Floridian Chases Down Laptop Thief
Posted 02/25/2009 at 3:01pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Joseph Kohl, a 75-year-old Floridian, proved to be more than a match for a much younger thief. With his life’s very first laptop at stake, Kohl decided to give chase to the 29-year-old thief. Kohl was joined by an off-duty cop - who fortuitously happened to be at the scene - in the pursuit.
Kohl was waiting for his wife outside a Best Buy store after having bought a laptop and a printer, but Samuel Dallas Jarvis showed up instead. Jarvis then proceeded to grab Kohl’s laptop and set out on a run. But, apparently, his pickup was not anything to write home about as he could not really bolt out of the blocks as he would have liked; his elderly victim had to merely run about 8 feet to nab the crook.
When the off-duty cop showed up, it was game, set, match, and laptop to Jarvis. “I have no idea what computers are about, but I didn’t want him taking my first one,” Kohl said after the incident.
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scubesolution
November 15, 2010 at 3:29am
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airman0
February 25, 2009 at 5:38pm
what sucks for the guy even more the off duty cop was 65 years old!!!!!!!!!! he got wooped by two old guys
Laptop 650$
Printer 99$
getting your ass whooped by 2 old guys- priceless
The Canadian
February 26, 2009 at 4:38am
Where in the story does it say the off duty copy was 65, it doesn't...your comment is: epic fail?!
The Canadian
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Dirty Harry
February 26, 2009 at 3:12am
Maybe Best Buy could release the survelliance video and post it on you tube or one of those
"worlds dumbest criminals" TV shows.
Or maybe he should go to some Obama town hall meeting and beg for a Laptop.
WOOT FREE LAPTOPS FROM THE MESSIAH... YEAH (Messiah - the chosen name by some in the mainstream media and political left for Obama).
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