Thieves provide entertainment

Okay, I managed to scare up enough leftover stuff from 2011 to fill this space until the Legislature gets down to work and provides some copy.

One of my favorite stories was the purse-snatcher who was nabbed when his pants fell down while he was running away from his victim. The would-be thief was a 43-year-old Everett man who ripped the woman’s handbag off her shoulder at the Bremerton ferry terminal and ran to a nearby taxi to make his getaway, when his pants suddenly descended to his ankles he tripped and fell down.

A pedestrian who witnessed it told a cop, who was working at the terminal,...