Method mugging

Robert Iler, who plays Anthony Soprano Jr. — a.k.a. “Baby Bing” — on “The Sopranos,” pleaded guilty to mugging two kids and stealing $40 from them. Iler told the judge that he and two friends “spotted two youths walking toward them and decided to ‘hassle’ the pair.”

Here’s the best part. Iler’s lawyer said: ”My view is that he was a 16-year-old boy in the wrong place at the wrong time and didn’t have enough sense to walk away.” In the wrong place at the wrong time? Huh? Apparently, if you are a 16-year-old boy, the “wrong place and the wrong time” (i.e., with two friends and plenty of tempting mugging targets around) will make you do the craziest things. Silly Baby Bing. He got three years probation and his record will be sealed. Wonder if Tony paid off the judge?