A 51-year-old man has been arrested for suspected theft after he allegedly snatched the gold chain off the neck of a 22-year-old man in Mong Kok.
The victim, a young, responsible father surnamed Lo, had been out running errands with his six-month-old son strapped into a baby carrier across his chest, reports Apple Daily.
He noticed a shady man following him, but paid him no heed. He then claims that the older man – now holding a two-foot-long iron bar – followed him to the walk-up building where he lived.
Suddenly, the suspect allegedly pushed the victim against a wall, and threatened him with the iron bar, saying: “If you don’t want anything to happen to your son then don’t move!”
Lo says he protected his son’s head with his right hand throughout the whole ordeal.
The man then reportedly snatched the gold chain – worth about HKD15,000 – off of the victim’s neck, and ran off.
The young father, undeterred by the small human attached to his chest, gave chase, running after the alleged thief for 500 metres before his baby’s cries and his own tiredness forced him to stop.
He returned to his flat, where his wife urged him to call the police. An ambulance took him and his son to hospital, where Lo was treated for minor injuries to his head. The baby was unharmed.
The police arrested the suspect later that evening when he tried to sell the chain at a pawn shop.
Lo lives in a subdivided flat on Tung Choi Street with his wife and baby. The building has no guards, no CCTV cameras on the ground floor, and its front gates are often open.
Lo says that because he works long hours every day starting from noon, he likes to spend time with his baby in the morning and will carry him even when he’s out buying groceries and running other errands.
Awwww.
Photo: Screenshot via AppleDaily.com
