No police force outside of Medina has more time on its hands than Redmond’s finest. So it comes with more than a little amusement that three South End “thugs” thought they could get away with robbing folks at Redmond bus stops.

The three thieves were apprehended after a teenager matching one of the descriptions ran in front of a former victim who happened to be talking to an officer. So much for leaving the scene of the crime and laying low. The incident marks a new low for juvenile delinquency.

Between the not-so-small-army of Microsoft security personnel and the always-eager-for-action RPD, known for loitering in the parking lot of the recently deceased Workshop Tavern simply because it was the lone hotbed of blue collar drinking in the city, Redmond is armed to the teeth with overly staffed eyes and ears looking for something, anything to report or detain.

As a Sound Offer pointed out, had these idiots stayed in the South End or anywhere other than Redmond, they likely would have been able to get away with this activity much easier. Visions of Johnny Depp playing Hunter Thompson at the Drug Symposium in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas come to mind; only, this time, the drugs are on the outside of the briefcase.

Photograph courtesy of Grundlepuck from the Seattlest Flickr Pool