If you're concerned about average D.C. street crime (and who isn't), you really need to be reading Borderstan on a regular basis. The blog has been doing a consistently great job of warning residents about the everyday muggings and burglaries that mostly go unreported by larger media outlets, and this week has been no exception. Note this report of a 9 a.m. mugging bank robbery on K Street: D.C. police were searching for a suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying robbery suspect on Monday who successfully mugged some unsuspecting pedestrian. "And you have to love the irony of mugger in a suit on K Street." Indeed. (Hat tip City Desk). UPDATE: As noted in comments, this particular crime appears to have been a bank robbery and not a mugging. My praise of Borderstan's general vigilance about street crime still stands, though.



I think that was a bank robbery, not a pedestrian mugging. (I got the text message alert that morning, thought it was odd, and then saw the bank story; time and location synced up.)
link didn't work:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/crime/D_C_-police-seek-sharp-dressed-bank-robber-8310365-62412397.html
I certainly hope he had his slacks irony-ed! Ha, ha! But seriously, the only way to rob someone is while dressed up like a sort of idealized Renaissance courtier of the Medicis or the Borgias. That or get your legs sawed off and do it in a wheelchair with a shotgun. Just don't try it on Ted Loza. He'll make you get an abortion.
It would be hilarious if the MPD started profiling subjects of that description and rounding them up for questioning.
MPD would never so something like tha-- oh wait, they already did.
sounds like something out of v for vendetta, though i know that's not right.
Maybe it was the penguin man. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bullneck/2739226366/in/set-72157607211224247/
Yeah, way to go Borderstan for your continually top-notch reporting on.......
Oh no, wait, actually, Borderstan's post was completely inaccurate.
Still, great work, fellow blogerati!
correction posted.
Thanks correction. Posting was based on police alert. http://wp.me/piiz0-29F