Gumby calls it a robbery, clerk thinks it’s a joke

bostonherald.com ^ | 09/13/2011 | Associated Press

[massmike]

A person dressed as Gumby walked into a Southern California convenience store, claiming to have a gun and demanding money, but costume trouble and a skeptical clerk thwarted the would-be robber.

Gumby demanded money, but the store clerk thought it was a joke and ignored the life-size Claymation character, telling him he was cleaning up and didn’t have time to waste.

"You don’t think this is a robbery? I have a gun," the costumed man said, fumbling inside his costume as if trying to retrieve a weapon.

But the green-gloves seemed to get in the way, and rather than pull a gun, he dropped 26 cents on the floor.

The video shows the second man, who came in with the Gumby suspect, but was not dressed as Pokey, walk out of the store.

San Diego’s KGTV News reported that the clerk told his boss he didn’t know who Gumby was and described the character in the store as a "green SpongeBob SquarePants."

[massmike]

In this surveillance video taken Sept. 5, 2011 and released by the San Diego Police Department showing a suspect dressed like Gumby telling a store clerk he is being robbed, fumbling inside the costume as if to pull a gun, dropping 26 cents and leaving.

[Mr. Impatient]

Why did it have to be Gumby? I don't like Gumby.

Did the clerk at least take the 26 cents?

[dayglored]

> ...the clerk told his boss he didn’t know who Gumby was and described the character in the store as a "green SpongeBob SquarePants."

I feel REALLY old.

[rawcatslyentist]

Who's gonna be the next cartoon store robber? Hashbrick or Spongebong's vapor trail?

[TSgt]

I’m Gumby Dammit!
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/broadway-gumby-rose/278819/

[TSgt]

[massmike]

I hear Davey and Goliath were in the getaway car!

[Fiji Hill]

I only recently learned that Gumby was green. Gumby cartoons were broadcast on the Engineer Bill show, weekday evenings on KHJ-TV, channel 9 in Southern California, in 1960 and 1961. We watched the program on our 1952 Majestic black-and-white TV.

[forgotten man]

Oh Gumby, don’t forget your gumbometer.

[Egon]

The video shows the second man, who came in with the Gumby suspect, but was not dressed as Pokey, walk out of the store.

Best line of the story.

[Oztrich Boy]

I want to see the police identikit picture