All He Wanted Was His Two Dollars

Norwalk, CA

Cell phones are easy targets for thieves. They're small enough to grab and the victims are usually too shocked by the crime to go after them. Unless they're really determined.

A 17-year-old boy was dragged a block behind a car in Norwalk Friday after thieves snagged his phone and he went after them. Not clear if he somehow got caught in a door or if he just hung the fuck on. I like to think he clawed his way up the car with murder in his eyes, foaming at the mouth. Like the paperboy in Better Off Dead.

I have to wonder who was more frightened. The kid or the guys in the car watching this screaming death machine chewing a hole through the door.

Eventually they lost him. Left him with the mother of all road rashes.

The car was described as a black, 4-door American sedan from the late 1980s or early 1990s. That's helpful. No make? Model? All that work and you didn't even get a plate? Thing was three inches from your face.

Kids these days. No sense of priorities.