Editing Blog/2025-04-15/Catching A Laptop Thief (section)

== The Crime And Chase ==

I got about one bite in when I looked up to see this chap running out the door with a backpack<ref name=naivete/>. A couple of seconds after, he was followed by a man in his 40s chasing after yelling something like "Stop! Wait! That's mine! Hey!" and other such things. It took me a couple of seconds to realize what was going on but it felt like the right thing to chase. So the thief ran across Mission to the South side of Mission, with the victim in pursuit. The light turned green across Mission but another bystander gave chase, running from across New Montgomery. I followed the thief on the North side of Mission and when there was a short lull in traffic, I ran across the street a couple of seconds after the other bystander reached him and grabbed his arm. Together we held him against the back of a car that was parked there and wrenched the backpack away from him.