Girl in Prom Dress and Tiara Chases, Nabs Thief..
Sixteen-year-old high school sophomore Erin Schrode was at a protest rally in downtown San Francisco for Teens for Safe Cosmetics Wednesday. Called "Project Prom" to raise awareness of harmful ingredients in makeup, the teens decided to wear prom dresses with combat boots. "We wore combat boots to fight the fight against toxic chemicals," said TSC group leader Judi Shils to the Marin Independent Journal.
In an interview with local radio station KCBS, Schrode reported that a purse had been stolen during the rally, moments before she witnessed three men grab a laptop from the event stage and take off running. She ran after them.
Lifting her dress so she wouldn’t trip on it and hoping that her tiara wouldn’t fall off, Schrode chased the men for more than three blocks. "I just took off running in my dress, boots and tiara through Union Square," she said to KCBS.
She called out to pedestrians to phone 911 as she ran, sprinting on sidewalks and across busy streets through traffic. "If someone had asked me earlier if I would ever have chased after thieves, I would have said ‘of course not,’ but something in me just said, ‘you’re going to catch them.’" She said in retrospect that it was a dangerous thing to do, but added, "I just felt so empowered by the rally."
She caught up with one of the men and forced him to stop. "He started crying and telling me it was his friends’ idea, he’d never done this before." The KCBS reporter asked if the young man was crying because he’d been caught, or because he’d been outrun by a high school girl in a prom dress and tiara.
After Schrode stopped the thief, police were able to catch one of the other two men. One man remains at large. The purse was recovered with some of its original contents, but the laptop has not been found.
"I imagine in retrospect it was pretty funny to see," said Schrode, adding that she just reacted quickly without thinking. "I wasn’t going to let them get awa
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