A great story appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle about a woman who happen to see the thief who had stolen her identity six months before. The woman, Karen Lodrick, followed and then, when she was found out, chased the thief through San Francisco.
From the story:
Despite the expensive coat, the Prada bag, the glitter-frame Gucci glasses, there was something not right about the impostor she would later learn was named Maria Nelson.
“She had bad teeth and looked like she hadn’t bathed,” the onetime standup comic recalled recently. “I thought, ‘You’re buying Prada on my dime. Go get your teeth fixed.’ “
When Nelson got up to leave, Lodrick, who is 5 feet 2 and 110 pounds but comes from what she calls “a fighting family,” made an instant decision. First she called 911. Then she followed Nelson down Market Street.
Despite putting Lodrick through “six months of hell,” Nelson ended up getting only time served and three years of probation. The ironic twist: Nelson was on probation when she raided Lodrick’s mail and assumed her identity.
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