Local Runners Can’t Believe How Easy It Was to Take Elderly Couple’s Hats
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Two men marveled this morning over the ease with which they snatched the festive headwear from an older married couple on a local trail, Dumb Runner has learned.
George Irving, 46, and Dick Shawn, 44, longtime friends and training partners, were running in Southtown Park around 8 a.m. when the petty theft occurred. The men have a years-long tradition of meeting for a run on Christmas Eve, sources said.
Just half a mile into their run, the pair noticed two stooped figures ahead of them, gingerly making their way along the trail. The couple, a man and woman “probably in their 70s,” sources said, were holding hands. They have not been identified.
Noting the senior couple’s bright red Santa hats, Irving told Shawn, “Oh, I have got to have that hat.”
“Should we?” Shawn replied.
The two shared a look, smiled, and increased their pace, reaching the older couple in a matter of seconds.
“Ho ho ho!” shouted Shawn, grabbing the elderly man’s hat.
“Merry Christmas!” said Irving, plucking the hat off the elderly woman’s head.
The couple appeared startled and confused, sources said.
Discussing their feat later, Irving and Shawn remarked on the couple’s feeble response to the hat-snatching.
“That was too easy,” Shawn said. “Those two barely resisted.”
“I almost feel bad,” Irving said. “I hope Santa brings them something nice.”
Shawn and Irving were spotted after their run tossing the hats into a Dumpster.
