2009/12/10
times square scammer
In the news today,
NYC police: Officer kills Times Square scammer
NEW YORK — A plainclothes cop chased a Times Square scam artist through sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists Thursday, exchanging gunfire that shattered Broadway theater and gift shop windows, before killing the suspect near a landmark hotel, police said.
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The slain man was not immediately identified. Officers suspected him and his partner were working a scam in which they would approach tourists, ask them their names, then write their names on the CDs and demand payment of $10.
I’m so glad I didn’t take any of those CD’s hawked to me every morning in times square last summer.
