Strret thief gets presidential tongue lashing
IT’S NOT every day that a Panama street thief gets caught in the act and receives a face to face tongue lashing from the president of a country, but it happened in Panama on Friday, February 26, when a youth in Currundu robbed two German tourists at knife point.
The timing was not right for Edwin Forbes Gudiño Abdiel, a candidate for the born loser’s club , because, as he turned to run away with his booty, he was spotted by bodyguards of President Juan Carlos Varela, whose passing convoy was en route to San Miguelito to verify that local schools would be ready for Monday’s return to the classrooms.
One of the guard’s chased the fleeing robber and President Varela, who was traveling in another car, got out and “forcefully rebuked” him reports El Siglo: “Guys like you do not want change and want to find the easy life”
Varela then, on behalf of the country apologized to the tourists
The knife thief had used to threaten the tourists was seized, and he was arrested and taken away for processing with a potential 8-year jail sentence looming.