Saturday, February 11, 2012

Unattended iPad in Cafe Cortadito commode leads to sanitation worker's arrest

Police arrested an on-duty sanitation worker yesterday morning after he reportedly stole an iPad from Cafe Cortadito on East Third Street near Avenue B, the Daily News reported.

He had asked to use the Cafe's restroom. Per the News: "Maldonado found the unattended electronic tablet in the restrooom and hid it in his pants, said police."

The Cafe owner quickly realized that the iPad was missing, and confronted the worker, who handed it over and left. She called the cops, who arrested the worker nearby. Police charged him with with petit larceny.

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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2012 at 11:46 AM

    Is this the iPad that is used behind the counter? yeach!

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2012 at 1:14 PM

    First off the owner is taking an iPad into a toilet, which is gross. Then they leave it in there, which they deserve to have it taken. After confronting the guy who took it, he returned it and still they are going to call the cops afterwards? So lame. Now they will get this city employee, who is probably scraping by, fired over their own stupidity and lack of hygiene.

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  3. Marty WombacherFebruary 12, 2012 at 6:28 PM

    This is making me think of the Seinfeld, "Toilet Book" episode.

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  4. Barney RussellFebruary 12, 2012 at 9:34 PM

    @ anonymous: If the Sanitation worker gets fired, it is because he is a thief. At 11:40 AM, the restaurant was not open to the public. The Sanitation worker had to knock on the door to ask to use the bathroom. They probably let him in as a courtesy not thinking that a uniformed, on duty city sanitataion worker would steal.

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  5. crab appleFebruary 13, 2012 at 1:31 PM

    The right thing for the sanit guy would've been to report finding the thing in the bathroom, but, unless he refused to give it up when they asked him about it, he didn't steal it!! What kind of fucking city is this where some dick calls the cops when someone returns what they've found and what kind of cops would even make an arrest when there was no theft?

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  6. Barney RussellFebruary 13, 2012 at 9:44 PM

    He didn't report finding the thing
    because he stole it. He hid it in his waist band and tried to walk out. The only reason he returned it was because he got caught and tried to talk his way out of it.
    If I visit you in your apartment, hide your I-Pad in my pants and try to walk out and you stop me at the door, did I find it or steal it?

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2012 at 6:31 PM

    If I left behind expensive sunglasses in your restaurant and I return the next day and no one claims to have found them. yet, I see one of your employees wearing them the next week, and demand to have them back and they reluctantly return them. should I still call the cops?

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