Daily Mail - It may not be exactly what the legendary bandit had in mind - but this Vietnamese woman does not seem to care. Ha Vasko, 68, is accused of pickpocketing. But not just any pickpocketing: Vasko is accused of flying all the way from her $400,000 home in Florida, where she lives with her wealthy husband, to New York's Chinatown, where she then allegedly robs only the Chinese - and gives her ill-gotten gains to the needy. Vasko apparently hates the Chinese. 'They cheat, and they are greedy and are on welfare,' she told the New York Post. Vasko's pickpocketing rampage through New York is believed to have begun last June, when she allegedly stole $500 from a Chinese woman. Over the next nine months she was arrested four times, the last time on March 21. Vasko admitted that she herself has Chinese blood, and told the Post she does not know why she hates them so much. At least three times she allegedly walked from appearing in a Manhattan court straight back out on the street to pickpocket again. There are fears she has struck more than 100 times. After one arrest, apparently worried she would miss her Delta flight home, Vasko allegedly told a police officer she would give him $1,000 to let her get on the plane. Bribery was promptly added to the list of charges against her.
You have to love her blunt honesty, she doesn't know why she hates the Chinese, but she's damn sure they're doing something wrong. I have one question for her though, how does she know they're Chinese? Can Asians tell other Asians apart? Seems unreasonable. I mean if you line up a hick from Oklahoma and a dude from like Florida, I'm not going to be able to tell them apart.
I'll tell you why she hates them though, its because they're the only racial group that get's their own designated towns these days. Like I get that there is a billion of you and you're busting out the seams in your own country, but don't you think that the Vietnamese would like to have a "Vietnamese Town" or the Laoseans and Cambodians would like their own towns (I mean, yea they have Lowell, but its not like town officials are going to let them up and change the name).
China Town is bullshit. Greedy bastards taking the naming rights to their few blocks of squalor. You aren't the only orientals in town guys.
I think we should ease up on the Robin Hood comparisons though. As far as I know Robin Hood never got caught, and certainly didn't get caught like every other week for a year. I don't even think that can be referred to as pickpocketing. Pickpockets are sneaky. This lady is just out and out mugging people. Respectable, but Robin Hood she aint.
