14 DAY TRIAL // Legendary actor Kevin Bacon had his BlackBerry stolen right out of his hands while getting off at a subway station in New York the other day, PageSix informs. Bacon was texting on his phone when the thief walked away with it, and tried to apprehend him but soon lost him in the crowd. A police report has been filed.
According to the publication, Bacon got off at a subway station and realized his BlackBerry was gone from his hand. He immediately spotted the man who had taken it and ran off after him in the hope he might get it back – presumably because of the many contacts on it that the crook might use later for his own personal gain. Soon enough, he realized such a thing was impossible given that the station was too crowded, gave up and called the police instead.
“The thief is a lot less than six degrees of separation away from a coveted cache of A-list celebrities and boldface names likely programmed into Bacon’s ‘Berry. The robber boldly swiped the ‘Footloose’ star’s cell at 10:50 a.m. Thursday at the B, D and E station at 53rd Street and Seventh Avenue, sources said. Bacon didn’t give up the BlackBerry easily. The star took off after the crook, but lost track of him as he raced through the station’s crowd, the sources said.” PageSix reports.
Although subway authorities deny the personnel has been notified about the theft, it is widely believed Bacon filed a police report, although there are few chances he will actually get his phone back. Most likely, the cell has already switched hands, as is customary in such cases, several US media outlets are saying. Nevertheless, the fact that the thief now has access to a wide range of celebrity contacts has gotten Bacon really worried, the same reports have it.
“Bacon was traveling yesterday with his band, the Bacon Brothers, and could not be reached for comment, his spokesman said. The spokesman wouldn’t say whose numbers were in the phone. Cellphones were the prime target in 37 percent of the 823 robberies committed in the subway system last year, NYPD Transit Bureau records show.” the same publication further explains.
This is not the first time that Kevin Bacon is robbed either: the actor and wife Kyra Sedgwick also lost an undisclosed amount of money to Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff, who entered a guilty plea for a $65 billion fraud in March.