Before you file this story under “Most Considerate Thief Ever,” know that a Hartford (Ct.) man who stole a car being used to deliver Chinese food had an ulterior motive in his decision to keep making the deliveries. His plan was not to ensure the moo goo gai pan and egg rolls arrived hot at their destinations. Rather it was to pocket the profits.
The Hartford Courant reports that 45-year-old Keith Hinds was arraigned last Friday on charges that included third-degree larceny and assorted drug-related charges.
Police received a call from a Chinese food delivery driver reporting that his car had just been stolen at Bristow Middle School on Highland Street after he had left it idling to run into the school, police said.
The driver also called his boss at the restaurant to tell him about the car theft, so that the restaurant could call remaining customers and tell them that their orders were stolen along with the car, police said. The people at the restaurant told the driver that one of the orders had been delivered after the theft, presumably by the car thief, police said.
Hinds should have taken the money from the one order and run (faster). Instead he proceeded to the address on one of the two remaining receipts. Unluckily for him, so did police, who arrived in time to intercept him as he was making another delivery.
Police found a crack pipe, a joint, and an anti-psychotic drug on Hinds’s person. He is being held on $5,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Hartford Superior Court this week.
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Oddly, after stealing the Chinese food, he had the urge to do it agaqin in an hour.
Steven
Oh, how could I have not thought of that myself! That’s grade A stuff.
He apparently didn’t open one of the fortune cookies did he (assuming he can read, which in Hartford is a coin-flip). It might have given him a clue as to whether he should pursue other interests.
Thanks, teejk, but I’m not going there. Before you know it, I’ll be writing in eye dialect and from there headed to the penalty box for another 2 mins.
Howard is a coward (first time you heard that I bet). Btw, today is Roth’s 80th birthday. Quit complaining.
Sounds like an enterprising thief, to me. This is something a lot of the world’s governments have done. Basically, it’s what national health care amounts to. Take over the resources by force and pocket money from the “customers.”
J.E. Hate to correct you but the PC term is now “redistribution”. Theft is going to disappear from Webster’s.
Actually, I believe “theft” and “thief” will still be in the dictionary, referring to free enterprise and entrpreneurs.
But you’re right. In PC terms, Mr. Hinds was merely redistributing the resources to himself.
And the police have now “redistributed” his freedom to a jail cell.
I hate to correct you Howard (ok…I don’t but we can pretend)…”redistribution” involves a shuffling of assets.
Locking this guy up is probably best described as pest control. He’s probably used the “race card” and is already free. Maybe next time he goes for pizza delivery (a little more risk…Sopranos thing).