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Monday, April 21, 2014

Butter Knife-Wielding Woman Robs Cab Driver

Posted By on Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:33 AM

click to enlarge A very dull crime - FLICKR/LISA OUELLETTE

That's the first and probably the last time we'll be able to write that headline.

Police are looking for a woman armed with a butter knife who robbed a taxi driver yesterday morning in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood.

Officer Albie Esparza says the woman hopped a cab at about 2 a.m., and told the driver to pull over at Hyde and Ellis streets. At that point, she pulled out her butter knife, put the dull blade to the man's chest and demanded all his money.

The 43-year-old taxi driver grabbed the knife and the woman let go. It was that easy.

But she wasn't going to leave humiliated. The woman grabbed the driver's black bag from the front seat and hopped out of the taxi.

Police were only able to describe the woman as a white female, about 35 years old.


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Erin Sherbert was the Online News Editor for SF Weekly from 2010 to 2015. She's a Texas native and has a closet full of cowboy boots to prove it.

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