I think he took that guy's wallet.

There was a crummy movie on last night, an 80s movie with Lorraine from Back to the Future in it. It also had Elias Koteas in it, as an extremely contrived young tough, which was sort of entertaining. Otherwise it was pretty stupid, but that was probably because it was a John Hughes piece. I was amused to find, while looking through his imdb page, that he had a hand in all the Beethoven movies (the St. Bernard ones), but used an alias. The best part, though, is that he also did some work on Maid in Manhattan, using the same alias. I am just imagining the foreknowledge that this script he was about to sign off on was a piece of shit in a way that equates with the shittiness of Beethoven. So even he has standards.
For contrast though, he used his own name on Dennis the Menace, Baby's Day Out, and Homes Alone I, II, and III.