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Bandit Tries To Rob Store With Banana
WJLA TV ^ | 6/25/08

Posted on 06/26/2008 5:37:29 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: banana; banglist; stupidcriminal
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1 posted on 06/26/2008 5:37:29 AM PDT by NRA1995
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To: NRA1995

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

How to defend yourself against an attacker armed with a banana


2 posted on 06/26/2008 5:38:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: NRA1995

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


3 posted on 06/26/2008 5:39:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: NRA1995

When bananas are outlawed....


4 posted on 06/26/2008 5:41:59 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Peace is Not The Question.)
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To: NRA1995
"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.


5 posted on 06/26/2008 6:09:13 AM PDT by ladtx ( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
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To: NRA1995

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.


6 posted on 06/26/2008 6:17:26 AM PDT by posterchild
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What about pointed sticks?


7 posted on 06/26/2008 6:22:24 AM PDT by dfwgator ( This tag blank until football season.)
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To: AppyPappy

Throw an orange and yell “grenade!”


8 posted on 06/26/2008 6:23:08 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: NRA1995
Oh the fruits you encounter .... then there are suicide bombers like this ...


9 posted on 06/26/2008 6:28:06 AM PDT by Daffynition
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I fully expect a majority opinion on bananas written by Souter, Ginsburg or Kennedy very soon.


10 posted on 06/26/2008 6:36:17 AM PDT by relictele (Web addicts anonymous meets here 24/7)
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To: NRA1995
Anybody ever read The Incomplete Book of Failures, The Official Handbook of the Not-Terribly-Good Club of Great Britain by Stephen Pile?
11 posted on 06/26/2008 6:38:11 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Vote Republican = Vote NO to the Radical Left!)
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“Leave the banana, take the cannoli”


12 posted on 06/26/2008 6:40:36 AM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: AppyPappy

How bout a pionted stick?


13 posted on 06/26/2008 6:55:58 AM PDT by Siberian-psycho (An oppressed class which did not try to possess arms, would deserve to be treated as slaves." Lenin)
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He aimed it at the clerk and demanded cash.

That's just bananas.
14 posted on 06/26/2008 6:56:08 AM PDT by SouthDixie (We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
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To: NRA1995
When bananas are outlawed...
15 posted on 06/26/2008 7:25:28 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Hillary to Obama: Arkancide happens.)
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well?...I'll be a monkeys' uncle...Thats' a banana....
16 posted on 06/26/2008 7:28:10 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (If you aren't "advancing" your arguments,your losing "the battle of Ideas"...libs,hates the facts 8^)
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You don’t bring a banana to a knife fight!


17 posted on 06/26/2008 8:39:10 AM PDT by efs111 (Hasta La Vista, Baby!)
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To: NRA1995
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.)

18 posted on 06/26/2008 8:43:24 AM PDT by Oatka (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: efs111
Is this the man who tried to disable a police cruiser by sticking a banana in the tailpipe?


19 posted on 06/26/2008 8:48:18 AM PDT by NRA1995 (It should be called "Cosa Nostra", not "Congress")
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To: efs111
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 :)
20 posted on 06/26/2008 10:03:00 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (If you aren't "advancing" your arguments,your losing "the battle of Ideas"...libs,hates the facts 8^)
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