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BENSONHURST: Would-be thieves chicken out when storeowner calls for help

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By Will Bredderman

Brooklyn Daily

62nd Precinct

Bensonhurst—Bath Beach

Stick and run

A pair of punks tried to rob an 86th Street storeowner on Feb. 26 — but chickened out when the victim cried for help, police report.

The victim said he was cleaning his business’s storefront between 20th Avenue and Bay 26th Street at 11:30 am when the two goons came up and pulled a gun.

The dastardly duo tried to force him back into the store, but the proprietor began to shout for the police — making the would-be thieves so nervous they took off.

Keeping tabs

A lowlife broke into a cable lineman’s vehicle on W. Fourth Street on March 1 and stole his work computer tablet, according to cops.

The victim reported that he parked his company van between Avenue O and Avenue P at 9:40 am and got out to work. When he came back to the vehicle, he found the passenger-side window in pieces and the handheld electronic device gone.

Social insecurity

A burglar swiped a stash of cash and a pair of Social Security cards from a Bay 41st Street bedroom on Feb. 27, authorities say.

The victim told cops she returned to her home between Benson and Bath avenues at 2 pm to discover a rear window open and her bedroom looted — with $9,000 in cash and the two government identifications gone.

Sleep light

A villain raided a Bay 11th Street home overnight on Feb. 28, cops state.

The victim said she came back to her abode between Cropsey and Independence avenues at 7 am and found her bedroom plundered — reporting $3,900 in cash and numerous pieces of jewelry stolen.

Screening process

A fiend sliced out the window screen of a 16th Avenue house and pillaged the inside overnight on Feb. 25, police say.

The victim said he went back to his home at the corner of 72nd Street at 7 am and found the window screen cut open, the portal ajar, and his iPad, jewelry, and checkbook all gone.

— Will Bredderman

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