By Rachel Holliday Smith – DNAInfo.com
Police are looking for a group of thieves who swiped some high-tech scooters in the neighborhood last week.
Three men approached three teen boys who were riding motorized hoverboards on Eastern Parkway, between Brooklyn and Kingston avenues, in Crown Heights around 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 29, police said.
The suspects asked the boys — ages 14 and 15 — to see the hoverboards, the victims told police. When the teens refused, the men punched them and took the three scooter-like devices, worth approximately $1,700 in total.
The suspects then fled in a gray minivan eastbound on the Eastern Parkway service road, police said.
Recently, the hands-free scooters, which retail for between $200 and $1000, have recently been spotted all over the city.
This is not the first hoverboard robbery reported in Crown Heights. In August, a 24-year-old man was robbed of two of the devices on Eastern Parkway and Nostrand Avenue by a buyer from Craigslist, according to a police report.
In September, a teenager was punched and robbed of one of the devices, worth $350, in the Financial District.
I am reiterating that children need adult supervision!!!!! Chas Vesholom the incident could have been much worse!!!
Guys what year were u born in ITS CALLED A SWEGWAY (SPELLING TRIPLE CHECKED!) I have one of those things and I don’t see wrong In riding ’em at Evening when I’m with other friends: This isn’t about Kids who said they were going to Starbucks WHICH BTW IS CHOLOV YISROEL MOST THE TIME That had nothing to do with being mugged or not: this is about some Sick thieves who just wanted one of those AWESOME things and were not educated to control themselves and to take the fact that YOU CANT ALWAYS GET WHAT U WANT WHEN U… Read more »
While I agree with your sentiment that there is a great failing i the quality of our children. I do not think we should even go the route of kicking children fro school for after hours behavior that has not even been banned in the first place. It just reeks of self righteousness.
Never be out late at night with very valuable stuff and be shocked if you get mugged!
last week i came back from new jersey i saw the man who punched the boy its a good thing i kept mine at home
first to 1 and 7 you are confused about another story so be careful when you are saying “not true” #1 and to number 8 you got the story but wrong address
#12 why were u walking to Starbs with no adult supervision
Children need to be supervised and if I was the principal of the school these children would be suspended for going to starbucks alone at such a late hour. Wearing jeans. What kind of chassidiishkeit is this? I don’t care how much money the parents donate? Are these the lessons that are being instilled?
I was mugged I’m 13 and I was pushed off on the way to starbucks like #1 said,by Rogers and my segway was worth 350
I have 3 friends who got them and each on got them stolen within two days from when they got them.
I know those two kids. The story is true and stupid of those two kids but I was not surprised when I first heard it. P.s. I don’t think Starbucks Is cholov yisroel.just saying
Actually there were two separate incidents
Not sure which incident that you are referring to but the one with the three boys happened in front of 744 Eastern Parkway and the boys weren’t even riding them
they were sitting on a bench waiting for two friends to join them and go all together
two kids fought back and one didn’t as he was told his life is irreplaceable and worth a lot more than any toy which can be replaced
i heard that version too
” True to be mugged is terrible thing but to be out so late without adult supervision is also questionable.”
Also, to be out so late with the supervision of a weak and care-nothing government is also questionable..
guys you can buy a tracker on amazon for 10$
These crimes are terrible, and there is no excuse for them. People should be able to ride these scooters without fear of being robbed. As a separate issue, people are generally getting fatter and sicker, and young people don’t need to train themselves to exercise less. These scooters are an excuse to stand completely still while traveling from one point to another. Walk, roller skate, bike, skateboard… Bodies that move are healthier and last longer. Should we have moving sidewalks so that everyone can move less and get even fatter? Please read my first thought again. There is no excuse… Read more »
The only deterrent to these low life scumbags is swift, hard punishment.
The message needs to be heard loud and clear to these certain “minority youth” that crime does not pay. They will not hear this message from their non-existent father’s and self-entitled drugged up mother’s, so the city correctional system will have to do the job.
I don’t think you guys know what hoverboard means…
The mugging took place near Rogers on Eastern Parkway. At around ten thirty in the evening. The children who are thirteen years of age were on there way to starbucks. True to be mugged is terrible thing but to be out so late without adult supervision is also questionable.