Three lunkhead thieves can't lug safe
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Three lunkhead thieves can't lug safe
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BY LAURIE FROST, ALISON GENDAR and VERONIKA BELENKAYA
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Saturday, May 19th 2007, 4:00 AM
Sporting bulletproof vests, police badges and at least one real gun, three robbers pushed their way into a Brooklyn home, shot the owner in the leg and fled with a safe, cops said.
But the safe proved too heavy for one of the fake cops, who dropped it in a backyard, and was later caught when he stupidly came back to the Homecrest neighborhood for his ill-gotten booty, cops said.
"How far did they think they were really going to get with a safe," said Christine Haluska, 29, who heard gunfire when one of the robbers shot her stepfather, Roger McCullom, 46, in the leg.
McCullom said his safe held $120,000 worth of baseball cards, antique coins and valuable stamps. He was home Thursday night with his son and two other young men when the three fake cops pushed their way into the E. 15th St. apartment just after 10 p.m. The trio flashed badges but their guns looked phony, so McCullom, an ex-con with numerous arrests, pulled a knife.
Thieves thwarted by safe in Brooklyn
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BY LAURIE FROST, ALISON GENDAR and VERONIKA BELENKAYA
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Saturday, May 19th 2007, 4:00 AM
Sporting bulletproof vests, police badges and at least one real gun, three robbers pushed their way into a Brooklyn home, shot the owner in the leg and fled with a safe, cops said.
But the safe proved too heavy for one of the fake cops, who dropped it in a backyard, and was later caught when he stupidly came back to the Homecrest neighborhood for his ill-gotten booty, cops said.
"How far did they think they were really going to get with a safe," said Christine Haluska, 29, who heard gunfire when one of the robbers shot her stepfather, Roger McCullom, 46, in the leg.
McCullom said his safe held $120,000 worth of baseball cards, antique coins and valuable stamps. He was home Thursday night with his son and two other young men when the three fake cops pushed their way into the E. 15th St. apartment just after 10 p.m. The trio flashed badges but their guns looked phony, so McCullom, an ex-con with numerous arrests, pulled a knife.
Thieves thwarted by safe in Brooklyn
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some people just don't think things through. Wouldn't it have been easier to catch the man gone and back a truck up to the porch or to the window?........stupid crooks.
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<< <i>And the man had $120,000 worth of antiques in one location because... ? >>
and that too............
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<< <i>Next time, they should try "Open the safe or you're dead." >>
Or worse. Home invasions were almost common place in South Fla after the mariel . Scary stuff. Looks like the "idea" has gone northbound.
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Some are not cut out for a life of crime.
He's an ex-con--he paid his dues or did his time. Why blame the victim. As for why he had $120,000 worth of antiques and assets at home, he probably knows how easy it is to rob a bank. I just think this is bad reporting, and not really news.
Chris
I wonder if any of the goods were "ill-gotten" from his previous jobs?
That said, if they were all above board, and he had turned his life around, being an ex-con shouldn't have even been mentioned and should have nothing to do with it.
He did the crimes, sounds like he did the time, move on.
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