Captain Underpants to the Rescue!
Posted on 05/10/2007 9:42:05 PM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
INWOOD, W.Va. (AP) - A thief covered his face with a pair of blue women's underwear and used a pistol-shaped cigarette lighter in a botched robbery of a convenience store, police said. "I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried," State Police Sgt. T.C. Kearns told The Journal in Martinsburg.
The cashier at first thought it was a joke and refused to give the man any money, so he ran to a Jeep Cherokee and drove away at about 4 a.m. Wednesday, Kearns said.
A few minutes later, police stopped a vehicle matching that description and took two men into custody.
Police later charged Steven Clay Stephenson, 34, of Ranson in the convenience story robbery.
Kearns said police found a pistol-shaped lighter while searching Stephenson. The underwear was recovered nearby.
Stephenson is charged with nighttime burglary, attempted robbery, first-offense driving under the influence, petit larceny and improper registration.
He was being held Thursday at the Eastern Regional Jail. The Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney's Office had no record of a defense attorney being assigned yet to represent Stephenson.
I'd always thought that was pronounced "vwar DEE-ray," more or less. Is that close to right?
But that's not what lawyers say! If somebody gave it the official French pronunciation, everybody would look at him like, "Huh?"
I've heard Vwah dear, Vor dear, Vore Dyer (with equal emphasis on the two words).
It's probably easier just to say, "Jury Selection."
Captain Underpants to the Rescue!
This sorry exscuse for a panty robber did one thing right, though -- he kept a bunch of folks laughing throughout the night. At one point I laughed so hard at someone's comment, I scared my cat and he hid under the bed.
some day, when you have time to laugh, check www.wvjra.com and click on the recent arrests icon.
Some of the pictures will make you laugh outloud.
And not many of them are what you call rocket scientists
Looks a mite crosseyed too.
This boy is WAY too happy to be there!
at least he didn’t wear a pink lacy thong on his head.
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