With current cigarette prices that trash can may have held a couple thousand $$.
I don't give a shit. He is a thief and a thug and deserved to be beaten with more than a skinny stick. Screw him and all his smash and grab thugs. A couple of body shots to the stomach would make a point.
I'm 73 years and have gotten to the point where I have no sympathy for these thugs. If some clandestine vigilantes started a real resistance, I would cheer them on, but couldn't help.