Grab Bag

(Fox News) - A mother sitting in a west London coffee shop with her 10-month-old son was the victim of a purse-snatcher who grabbed her bag and ran out of the store. So 34-year-old Sam McAlister asked the employees to watch her son and took off after the thief. The Evening Standard reports McAlister found the female robber in a nearby store and wrestled the purse away from her.

But when McAlister went to the police station to file a complaint, a female desk officer told her that no crime had been committed because she had gotten the bag back. McAlister says she was dumbfounded and demanded to speak to a superior officer. She later received a call from a supervisor and a crime report was written up.

A police spokesman says of the desk officer, "words of advice will be given to the staff member involved."