Clerk Uses Mop to Fight Off Armed Robber – Dumb Criminal of the Day

In Bellingham, Washington a tough-talking store clerk fought off a would-be robber with a mob handle. Believe it or not, the crook was armed with a baseball bat and a knife.

Mops must be more formidable weapons than I thought.

According to Redding a man wearing a ski mask walked into a convenience store and demanded that the clerk give him money. At first the clerk thought it was a co-worker pulling a prank on him. (When your victim laughs at you, it’s not a good omen for a robbery.)

The crook pulled out a knife and a baseball bat, but the clerk grabbed a mob handle and said,

Bud, you better get outta here or I’m gonna crack you upside the head.

And just like that the crook swiped a pack of gum and a cigarette lighter and ran out of the store. Police were called and they apprehend the guy across the street with the ski mask, the knife, the gun, and the pack of gum still in his car.

The stolen lighter was never recovered.

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Picture by catcamus, Flickr.

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Police, TSAs and drive-thru attendants are generally not the best people to try out practical jokes on. You can end up with spit in your food, miss your flight for a cavity search, or end up in prison. Fortunately for this 15-year-old girl her accidental prank just landed her a little bit of hot water with police.

Authorities in Arkansas tracked down the girl who had sent a text message to an officer the read, “I hid the body ... now what?” It was a prank test gone horribly wrong.

According to CNET the girl said she had been inspired by a photo on Pinterest that said,

“When I’m bored, I send a text to a random number saying ‘I hid the body ... now what?’

She was bored. She had a cell phone. You can guess what she did.

She dialed in a random number from to 479-area code and sent the ‘body’ message. Her prank took a turn for the worse because the number she’d picked turned out to be a police detective. When you work on homicide cases, text messages about dead bodies are no laughing matter.

Police traced the text back to the girl’s phone and showed up to question her and her father. They let her off with a warning, but told her she could have been charged with initiating or circulating a false emergency report.

Guess who won’t be sending any text messages for awhile.

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