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Alleged dumbass captured in Allston after taking time to inform victim he's being robbed

By adamg - 10/16/10 - 1:24 pm

Boston Police reports arresting a Quincy man on charges he robbed some guy in the men's room at the McDonald's at Harvard and Comm. aves., around 11 p.m. yesterday.

According to police, the victim dropped his credit card while putting it in his wallet and as he bent down to pick it up, Kenneth M. Babij, 20, grabbed his wallet, told him "You're being robbed" and took out a $100 bill. He and an accomplice whom the victim said just stood there then fled - followed by the victim, who chased them up Harvard until police arrived.

Innocent, etc.

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kinda like the Seinfeld finale?

By anon (not verified) - 10/16/10 - 4:57 pm
#1

the second male who was with the suspect did not actively participate in the robbery but rather just stood there when he was being robbed.

Did this crime happen in fictional Latham, MA?

From Wikipedia:

A good Samaritan law was featured in the May 1998 series finale of the popular NBC situation comedy Seinfeld, in which the show's four main characters were all prosecuted and sentenced to one year in jail for making fun of (rather than helping) an overweight man who was getting robbed at gunpoint.[28] In reality, while Massachusetts (where the fictional crime was committed) does have a law requiring passersby to report a crime in progress, the most stringent punishment the characters could have suffered under those circumstances would have been a $500–$2500 fine (assuming they were prosecuted under state law); in addition, the phrase "good Samaritan law," when used in Massachusetts, refers only to the civil law definition and does not have any actual relevance to the law under which Jerry Seinfeld and his friends were prosecuted (which would be considered a duty to rescue).[29]

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