They robbed me but still walked me home – Lady’s shares experience with ‘thoughtful thieves’

A young lady’s account of an unusual encounter with thieves has generated varied responses. In several tweets on X, she recounted how three men who robbed her of her laptop showed surprising compassion.

This incident happened during her first year at university while she was walking home alone.

After taking her laptop, the men listened to her tearful plea about an assignment due and one of them handed her a USB cord to help her transfer her files. They even accompanied her home safely.

She shared, “Reminds of a time back in 1st year when 3 dudes stole my pc while I was walking alone from school and I cried and told them I had an assignment due one gave me a USB and let me transfer it and even walked me home all while giving me advice about the importance of education. They also let me keep my phone, Thoughtful thieves

Her label of “thoughtful thieves” has prompted others to share their own similar stories in the comments.

“Nigerian SARS arrest me and my guys on our way back from IT, searched our phones and saw Binance and crypto stuff in my guy phone, then proceeds to arrest us, drove us to a very far place took 100k from us then gave us 1000 naira for transport back home”

“I can’t even call mine robbery, because they literally took me to a place, collected all my money and I told them I don’t have any money to go home again, they gave me 2k cash to go home”

“In 100l, thieves tore my net and stole my phone but they dropped my sims. I couldn’t even use the “na the sim pain me pass” line I cried!“