Bandit Tries To Rob Store With Banana

WJLA TV ^ | 6/25/08

[NRA1995]

Maryland State Police have a strange case to solve: A man walked into a Frederick County 7-11 Wednesday morning and tried to rob it. His weapon of choice? A banana.

The 7-11 on Fingerboard Road in Monrovia has been robbed before, but never like this. At 12:45 a.m., a masked man walked up to the counter and grabbed--a banana. He aimed it at the clerk and demanded cash.

"What's he think he's going to do with a banana?! Ain't much you can do with a banana! Throw the peel down and hope he slips on it," said resident Michael Benton.

Police said the suspect hit the clerk with the fruit, but the clerk fought back with a real weapon. As a surveillance camera rolled, the clerk grabbed a knife and chased the man out of the store.

[AppyPappy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w

How to defend yourself against an attacker armed with a banana

[Sacajaweau]

Is that a banana in your pocket or are you gong to rob me?

[andy58-in-nh]

When bananas are outlawed....

[ladtx]

"What's he think he's going to do with a banana?! Ain't much you can do with a banana!"

He just got the banana mag and forgot the gun.

[posterchild]

In some of these places the jobs have been gone for 25 - 30 years, so the people cling bitterly to their fruit and their notion of projecting soft power.

[dfwgator]

What about pointed sticks?

[MrB]

Throw an orange and yell “grenade!”

[Daffynition]

Oh the fruits you encounter .... then there are suicide bombers like this ...

[relictele]

I fully expect a majority opinion on bananas written by Souter, Ginsburg or Kennedy very soon.

[Savage Beast]

Anybody ever read The Incomplete Book of Failures, The Official Handbook of the Not-Terribly-Good Club of Great Britain by Stephen Pile?

[LukeL]

“Leave the banana, take the cannoli”

[Siberian-psycho]

How bout a pionted stick?

[SouthDixie]

He aimed it at the clerk and demanded cash.

That's just bananas.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

When bananas are outlawed...

[skinkinthegrass]

well?...I'll be a monkeys' uncle...Thats' a banana....

[efs111]

You don’t bring a banana to a knife fight!

[Oatka]

Police said the suspect hit the clerk with the fruit, but the clerk fought back with a real weapon. . . . "I wouldn't have done that. I would have just given him whatever he wanted and let him go," said nearby store owner Jodie Capone.
How servile can you get? What would she do in an attempted rape?

. . . As a surveillance camera rolled, the clerk grabbed a knife and chased the man out of the store.
This took place on the Planet Maryland, so I expect the authorities to come down on the clerk for using excessive force. Probably something like, "He should have used a rutabaga." (Tongue is only slightly in cheek.)

[NRA1995]

Is this the man who tried to disable a police cruiser by sticking a banana in the tailpipe?

[skinkinthegrass]

You don’t bring a banana to a knife fight!
How about, a (whole) box of Raspberries? ...a whole big box!
btw, I'm a 3rd Dan B.B. in an (Japanese) Martial Art....really. *HiYAH!* (scream :)