Thug Swipes Bacon Phone Packed With Celeb Contacts

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff
Posted May 24, 2009 6:41 AM CDT
Thug Swipes Bacon Phone Packed With Celeb Contacts
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick watch the Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets in Los Angeles earlier this month.   (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

A brazen Manhattan subway thug swiped actor Kevin Bacon's Blackberry, likely packed with phone numbers of his A-list celebrity pals, reports the New York Post. Bacon gave chase, but the thief maneuvered through the crowd at a midtown subway station to freedom. Bacon and his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, are no strangers to being crime targets. They were also stung in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.
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