Robber leaves empty-handed when Hispanic clerk cannot understand demands

Press-Register ^ | Thursday, July 09, 2009 | JILLIAN KRAMER

[SonnyBubba]

Police: Robber leaves empty-handed when Hispanic clerk cannot understand demands Thursday, July 09, 2009 By JILLIAN KRAMER Staff Reporter An armed man gave up trying to rob a Hispanic clerk at the Asia Market on Tuesday night when she didn't understand his demands for money, Mobile police said.

The clerk, Angelina Geronimo, speaks almost no English.

Geronimo, whose husband owns the Asian food store on Azalea Road, was alone when a man, masked by two T-shirts around his head and armed with a handgun, entered about 8:30 p.m., according to police.

[mgc1122]

Que? No habla ... LOL

[SonnyBubba]

Only in Mobile. Hispanic owns Asian foodstore.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Please press ‘1’ for robbery in English

[6SJ7]

LOL!

[sniper63]

"Please press ‘1’ for robbery in English"

Or stay on the line for the next available translator.

Were sorry all translators are currenly assissting other robbers your approximate wait is.....5 minutes.

[SJSAMPLE]

Any landlord coulda told the robber about this anomoly.

[conservativeharleyguy]

Niiiiiccccce.....

Great "Reality Show": WHEN EBONICS AND SPANGLISH COLLIDE (in an Asian market)!!!

The best screenwriters in Hollywood couldn't make this stuff up.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Ok, advantages: 1.
disadvantages: 29,374,117.

[SonnyBubba]

He conseguido un fusil, me da su dinero.

[MrB]

There was a line from a dirty harry movie, something about “what do hispanics and pool balls have in common - the harder you hit ‘em the better their English gets.”

[blam]

"Only in Mobile. Hispanic owns Asian foodstore."

My dad (Bless His Soul) used to say that Mobile was owned by the Jews, run by the Catholics and enjoyed by the Ni.....

[SonnyBubba]

Your Dad was a wise man.

[badbass]

Now that right there is funny!

[ErnBatavia]

A couple of months ago we were driving through Mobile (during a horrendous rain event) and passed a couple of exit markers for “Africatown”......one of the many mental notes I made to Googleize when we got back home to California.

[3catsanadog]

I was thinking along the same lines - after I read the story I thought now this is the kind of sketch SNL would do. And make the perp black who can only speak ebonics/rap speak.

[3catsanadog]

Hah! Read the rest of the story and he was black.

[blam]

"A couple of months ago we were driving through Mobile (during a horrendous rain event) and passed a couple of exit markers for “Africatown”......one of the many mental notes I made to Googleize when we got back home to California."

Africatown

[ErnBatavia]

Thanks....but we enjoyed visiting my uncle over in Lillian more!

[blam]

When I retired and moved to Mobile, one of the first bumper stickers I saw said:

"If I had known this was going to happen, I'd have picked my own damn cotton."