Anthony Johnson's weekends of crawling across movie theater floors, pilfering purses and running up $30,000 bills on other people's credit cards are over for now.
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Johnson, formerly of Philadelphia, was known on the street as "Hustlin' Tone". He drove a gold Mercedes and had a taste for dapper designer clothes and high-end sunglasses.
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[His two female accomplices] described Johnson as slithering "like a snake" across movie theater floors before reaching inside partially opened purses and pilfering the credit cards...
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"A good weekend was $50,000 to $70,000," McGowan told the jury. "Thirty (thousand) to $40,000 was a bad weekend."
She said Johnson chose primarily Fairfield County theaters showing movies like Eat, Pray, Love; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; and Twilight Eclipse because "there'd be a lot of white women there ...He said these were million-dollar movies."
The real question here is... what in the world were these women doing putting their purses on filthy movie theater floors in the first place? Ew! No, there are germs (and apparently, slithering, slimy crooks) down there. You keep it in your lap-- at most in an empty seat right next to you (though I'm too cautious to do even that). Same thing goes for restaurants. And I pray for your everlasting soul if you dare put it on a public restroom floor. If there's no hook on the stall door, you find a way to hang it on the corner of the door or you wear it the whole time. There is no excuse for anything else. --No! I said there's no excuse.
...I think we all learned an important lesson here, today: Paranoia pays. ;o)
