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After Mugging – or 'Snatch-and-Grab' – Is a Date Out of the Question?

A metro Craigslist poster says he's mugged lots of women, but he wants to date this one. For real.

This guy gets credit for moxie, if not for honesty, or class, or any of the attributes a woman typically looks for in a date.

He reportedly mugged a woman and snatched her purse at a West Des Moines mall around 9:30 p.m. Friday, but “felt something strong,” according to a post on the  Craigslist, a free online classified ad site. He thought she did, too.

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And, no, he didn’t think she was giving him the old stink eye.

“I've done many a snatch-and-grabs but no one has ever stuck in my mind like you,” he posted. “There was a quick moment when our eyes met that I felt something strong. I think you felt it too.”

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He claims that “if Iwasn’t so shy (or so committing a crime), I would have asked you name.”

Of course, her driver’s license revealed her identity.

“So, Jennifer,” our bad Romeo wrote, “If you’d like to get together for a drink sometime, get back to me.”

She can have her purse back, he continued, but not the $34 that was in it.


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