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Man attempts to rob convenience store with electric drill
Lincoln JournalStar ^ | 9/5/12 | Lincoln JournalStar

Posted on 09/06/2012 8:15:06 AM PDT by bigbob

Police are looking for a man who attempted to rob a convenience store early Wednesday with an electric drill.

A man wearing black jeans, a black sweater and a black mask entered the Kwik Shop near First Street and Cornhusker Highway at 2:49 a.m., Lincoln Police Officer Katie Flood said.

He demanded money and held an object concealed under a towel to look like a gun, Flood said.

The clerk, however, noticed a drill bit and saw a cord hanging from below the towel and refused to give the man money.

After the clerk told the man she thought it was an electric drill, the man left without taking anything.

A man in the area saw the man leave the store, run toward a nearby mobile home park and leave eastbound in a dark-colored, four-door car, Flood said.

The manager of the Kwik Shop provided police with surveillance footage.

The clerk described the man as about 5-foot-5, 140 to 150 pounds. He is likely young, judging from his voice, Flood said.


TOPICS: Humor; Local News
KEYWORDS: drill; electricdrill; robbery; stupidcriminals
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To: dfwgator
It sounds like they could use a turbo encabulator for that mission.
21 posted on 09/06/2012 9:05:25 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: bigbob

“Pay up or I’ll drill ya.”


22 posted on 09/06/2012 9:06:41 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: bigbob

What a boring story


23 posted on 09/06/2012 9:31:25 AM PDT by al baby (“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
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To: bigbob

That’s why some stores keep a Hilti under the counter.


24 posted on 09/06/2012 10:33:27 AM PDT by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: bigbob

Don’t laugh, this could have been a tragedy...

1979 Horror Film “Driller Killer”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DzVrXxMPDA

An artist slowly goes insane, makes the first cordless drill and begins killing people.


25 posted on 09/06/2012 11:38:40 AM PDT by lack-of-trust
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To: bigbob

Was it Cagney, Robinson, or Raft who said, “Don’t move or I’ll drill ya”?


26 posted on 09/06/2012 2:39:35 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: bigbob

I have an alibi.


27 posted on 09/06/2012 2:42:43 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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