Trenton makes, muggers attack stumbling drunks and take

Everybody knows that if you combined Philadelphia and New York, you’d get a shithole.

Everybody also knows that if you combined Philly and NYC, you’d get Trenton.

Well, the sad son of Jersey has done a little bit of clever thinking recently, dressing up police officers as stumbling drunks and arresting people who try to rob them:

Seven muggers, including one who was an escapee from state prison, have been nabbed in a police operation in which undercover officers act as helpless drunken men.

The covert operation began earlier this month as part of an effort to crack down on crimes of opportunity, according to Trenton police.

Two men were arrested this past weekend after they robbed what they thought was a stumbling, intoxicated man — but the “victim” was really undercover officer Yem Delgado Jr.

My question: how do you tell a helpless drunken man from a regular Trenton resident?

Ba-ZING!

Booze ruse nabs thugs: Operation uses officers as prey to bust criminals [Trentonian]