Irish tourist charged with cannoli holdup in Boston

Salem News ^ | 9/15/12 | Salem News/AP

[raccoonradio]

A tourist from Ireland apparently couldn’t wait to get his hands on an Italian pastry in Boston.

Prosecutors say just hours after 25-year-old Robert McTernan landed in Boston for a two-week vacation, he entered a bakery in the North End, a largely Italian neighborhood. They say he grabbed a knife and demanded a cannoli from an employee.

The worker at Bova’s Bakery handed McTernan the pastry made from creamy ricotta cheese wrapped in a crunchy shell, then called police at about 3:30 a.m. Thursday.

Officers found the Newbridge, Ireland, resident in the kitchen and arrested him on an armed robbery charge. Police could not find the knife.

McTernan pleaded not guilty at his arraignment. He was granted $2,000 bail and ordered to surrender his passport.

[raccoonradio]

Leave the knife. take the cannolis. (Trivia: ex-FBI agent John Connolly, who conspired with Whitey Bulger, was Irish but nicknamed "Cannoli" by his co-workers for the way he dressed...)

[raccoonradio]

Leave the knife. Take the cannolis.

[DManA]

“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli” Fat Clemenza.

[raccoonradio]

Classic line!

[massgopguy]

I’m guessing you already sent this in for Police Blotter fax Friday?

[oh8eleven]

25-year-old Robert McTernan landed in Boston for a two-week vacation
"Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour."

[throwback]

Oh, I thought he held the place up with a loaded cannoli. It could happen. Saw a woman try to rob a store with a curtain rod the other day on the dumbest criminals show. Times ARE hard when criminals can't even afford a decent gun. Obama will probably still keep that voting block, though, just watch.

[Lazamataz]

Improvised, too. He was only supposed to say "Leave the gun." in the script.

Many good actors with quite a few improvs that greatly improved the movie.

[raccoonradio]

No but I’m posting it for those who do! Don’t know if it may get read before then (by Michelle today or Howie after today)

[Larry Lucido]

I like the version where Sonny gasps “Hey, where’s my change?”

[oh8eleven]

Many good actors with quite a few improvs that greatly improved the movie.
Can't argue - GFer is my favorite movie ........... but the book is even better.

[Emperor Palpatine]

Zinka Milanov once stabbed Leonard Warren with a banana during Act II of Puccini’s “Tosca” at the old Met because the prop man forgot to put the trick knife on the table....

[V_TWIN]

cannoli’s so good, their worth getting shived over.

there's a commercial in there somewhere.

[muawiyah]

‘at’s me Congresscritter ~ Geribaldi Cannoli

[RitchieAprile]

did he pop a cap into the counterman’s foot like
chrissy moltisanti?

[V_TWIN]

Hey Ritchie, Janice says hello. LOL

[raccoonradio]

There’s actually an audiobook version where instead of one narrator like what you normally get, it’s almost like a play with different people doing diff. roles. Kinda livens it up. I got it from audible.
I had read book many yrs ago

[a fool in paradise]

"ALRIGHT! NOBODY MOVE! THIS IS A ROBBERY!!!

[Bernard Marx]

The worker at Bova’s Bakery handed McTernan the pastry made from creamy ricotta cheese wrapped in a crunchy shell, then called police at about 3:30 a.m. Thursday.

I'm having a cognitive dissonance problem here. I don't have much experience with Boston, being a Westerner, but are bakeries there open to the public at 3:30 in the morning?

[oh8eleven]

Thx - I’ll look for it.