An 18-year-old Milford man thought an attractive young woman wanted to meet him in the middle of the night on a Fair Haven streetcorner.
Boy, was he surprised.
The ill-fated rendezvous took place shortly after midnight last Saturday.
Here’s what happened, according to top Fair Haven cop Sgt. Herb Johnson:
The Milford man had corresponded on a hook-up website called MeetMe.com with a person who posted a female name. He really wanted to meet her. She really wanted to meet him — he believed. He agreed to show up at the corner of Grand and Maltby.
When the Milford visitor arrived on the corner, a young man approached him.
“Yo. What are you doing?” the man asked the Milford visitor.
The Milford visitor said he was meeting somebody.
The man departed. Then the Milford visitor received a text message from the woman. It directed him to the rear of a nearby house.
The Milford visitor complied. Guess whom he found in the back of the house? The same young man who had approached him moments earlier. He had two other men with him now.
Uh oh.
The Milford visitor figured he was about to be robbed. This time he figured right.
He protested that he had nothing on him except for some condoms.
One of the other men punched him in the face, then made off with his cell phone, which is worth an estimated $400.
The men then fled.
Sgt. Johnson said he sees a moral to the story:
“Verify stuff on the computer before you go out and meet somebody you don’t know in a place you don’t know.”
Or better yet, he said: Rather than journeying to dark isolated places for a rendezvous, “How about Starbucks?”
I find the humorous tone of this article interesting. I wonder if the article would have been written in the same manner had the crime victim been a woman.