Tuesday, November 2, 2010

[Updated] Destination Bar robbed

Via the bar's Twitter feed...



We just reached out to one of the owners of the bar here on Avenue A and 13th Street for more information.

[Updated] An owner to get back to us this morning... He wants to hold off on releasing any further details for the time being...

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hate to denigrate the cops, but their response time and professionalism needs improvement.

Anonymous said...

I love to denigrate the cops, because their response time and professionalism, among many other things, need improvement.

nygrump said...

Don't you just call 911 when you are robbed?

Anonymous said...

Yeah, they should have called 911 to report the robbery. That would have been perfectly acceptable.

Jill said...

The main phone number for the 9th precinct that are listed on every nyc website IS NOT A WORKING NUMBER. 212-477-7811 does not work. It takes you to voicemail on every press 1, press 2, and nobody listens to those voicemails. And they know it!

The working number is 212-477-7813.

Kurt said...

Were they robbed or were they burglarized? There is a big difference.

EV Grieve said...

@Kurt

True... someone entered the bar before they opened and took $$ from the registers...

Jill said...

Without my having to look it up can you please explain the difference between being robbed and burglarized?

I would think that businesses would put their cash in a safe at night. Just knowing that there might be all this cash laying around all these bars makes me wonder why this doesn't happen more often...or does it?

Kurt said...

@Jill, I'm not a lawyer but my basic understanding is that robbery is theft with the threat of violence while burglary is theft after a break-in.

Like Jill, I'm very surprised that any money would be left in a cash register at night. I know the inner working of several bars and this is something that would not happen. At the end of the night the cash is counted and then put into a safe.

glamma said...

thanks jill for the precinct number.