On: This girl in SF stole my MacBook Air

[null_ptr]

Is a stranger's laptop worth getting your face smashed for? Or stabbed? It doesn't sound like anybody's physical well being was threatened, so why risk your own?

[rokhayakebe → null_ptr]

Maybe you could take a picture then tell them, if anything happens to me in the next 5 years, this picture will be sent to the police.

But at any rate, it is better to shut up and give description to the owner.

[_7h4m → null_ptr]

I highly doubt that a person stealing laptops from Starbucks is going to stab you.

[Crito → _7h4m]

Because violent street thieves are unable to walk into a coffee shop?

If you live in a city where violent crime is not uncommon, don't assume that a thief is a nice person just because you've caught them in the act in a coffee shop.

[tshaddox → _7h4m]

Have you been to San Francisco? I don't know the rate of stabbings, but I have seen plenty of violently unstable people here that I wouldn't want to provoke.

[jjallen → null_ptr]

I agree that it's quite inexplicable why a woman who didn't know the owner of the laptop ran after the thief who was at least a third bigger than she was.

[PhasmaFelis → jjallen]

It's so weird when people look out for each other. It's like they're actually decent human beings or something!

[tshaddox → PhasmaFelis]

Interesting. In addition to victim blaming, it appears that all bystanders are also being blamed.

[michaelmior → jjallen]

Why was the thief at least a third bigger than the woman?

[jjallen → michaelmior]

I didn't actually see him, but he was a grown man by all accounts, and the woman was on the smaller side. So she was something like 120 lbs. max and he was at least 180 lbs.+