Dim-witted thief tries to rob coffee cart outside police HQ

A dim-witted thief picked the worst place to rob someone — right in front of police headquarters.

The 24-year-old suspect tried to run off with the tip jar on a coffee cart outside 1 Police Place in downtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning but was nabbed by a fast-as-lightning worker and a loyal cart customer — an NYPD detective.

“How stupid can you be to do that when the sign right here says police headquarters?” a police source told The Post.

Zikri Hodza, the nephew of the cart’s owner, had been manning the stand — which serves up breakfast to dozens of cops heading to work daily — when the incident occurred around 10:30 a.m.

Read the rest at: http://nypost.com/2014/08/05/thief-busted-trying-to-rob-coffee-cart-outside-police-headquarters/