Could the average schmo get this kind of result?

I find the following little blurb – from the SunTimes, just below news of a Rembrandt etching stolen from a Michigan avenue shop (stolen, in fact, the same day that I purchase an Art Institute membership and admire a few Rembrandts in that particular inimitable institution) – interesting because, living in the Austin neighborhood for the past few weeks, I know most crimes of this sort go unsolved. I just wonder how the managed to track the thug down.  

But seriously folks, how dumb and disconnected do you have to be to try to rob a very recognizable former senator and presidential candidate?

SUNDAY | 8 P.M. WOODLAWN:

Man charged in mugging of ex-Sen. Moseley Braun

A 38-year-old Woodlawn man was charged Sunday in the mugging of former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun last month. Joseph A. Dixon, of the 6100 block of South Drexel, faces one count each of attempted armed robbery and aggravated battery, Chicago Police News Affairs said. Moseley Braun was mugged in front of her Hyde Park home about 12:30 a.m. April 28. Her wrist was broken in the incident.

Whew! I’m glad I got to shake that hand in traffic court before it was damaged!