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Armed robbery fails when gas station employee, customers scoff at fake rifle
Guns.com ^ | 12/28/17 | Chris Egan

Posted on 12/28/2017 12:31:30 PM PST by Simon Green

(The clerk and three customers reportedly took cover when Derringer came in waving the “gun” then soon chased him from the store.)

An Ohio man by the name of Derringer cobbled together a “gun” made from household items and furniture legs in an attempt to knock over a Circle K on Christmas.

Police in Akron took Jeffrey Derringer, 48, into custody on Monday after customers and staff at the convenience store chased the man into an empty parking lot and detained him, the Akron Beacon-Journal reported.

The gun-like piece of industrial art that Derringer used in his failed stick-up attempt? A makeshift rifle “fashioned out of a pipe, a fake scope, a spring and two table legs clamped together as the stock.”

According to local media, the man was charged with aggravated robbery and booked into the Summit County Jail. He is scheduled to appear in Akron Municipal Court later this week.


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To: Simon Green

Bump stock


21 posted on 12/28/2017 1:00:29 PM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: WayneS
<>"fully automatic assault table legs..."<>

OMG! The kind that made Rosie fat?

22 posted on 12/28/2017 1:00:29 PM PST by Aevery_Freeman (High taxes + Government = Disorganized Crime)
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To: Simon Green

So if you bring “industrial art” to an armed robbery, does that change it to performance art?


23 posted on 12/28/2017 1:00:36 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: Simon Green

Meth is a helluva drug.


24 posted on 12/28/2017 1:01:39 PM PST by katana
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To: Simon Green

Bump stock


25 posted on 12/28/2017 1:02:43 PM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: GnuThere

Or performance robbery?


26 posted on 12/28/2017 1:06:17 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: WayneS

I can’t be the only person singing “I Fought The Law”, in my head.


27 posted on 12/28/2017 1:19:14 PM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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To: Salamander

No, you are not.


28 posted on 12/28/2017 1:20:43 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: editor-surveyor
ZIP!
29 posted on 12/28/2017 1:20:57 PM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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To: WayneS

Thank God.

:D


30 posted on 12/28/2017 1:21:44 PM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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To: Simon Green

I might not have taken the chance. Plenty of zip guns out there.


31 posted on 12/28/2017 1:22:50 PM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: jerseyman

He looks scarier than the gun.


32 posted on 12/28/2017 1:31:32 PM PST by certrtwngnut
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To: Palio di Siena
Bump stock

I've stubbed my toe on a table leg before. Hurts like crazy!

33 posted on 12/28/2017 1:32:51 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Salamander

When I was a kid I couldn’t figure out who ‘The Law One’ was.

I’ve always been a little slow on the uptake when it comes to song lyrics.


34 posted on 12/28/2017 1:38:18 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Simon Green

Performance art.


35 posted on 12/28/2017 1:40:38 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: TigersEye

“’cuse me, while I kiss this guy”


36 posted on 12/28/2017 1:42:56 PM PST by ex91B10
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To: Simon Green

Ohio really has strange Characters!


37 posted on 12/28/2017 1:48:02 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Simon Green

Nice Legs !


38 posted on 12/28/2017 1:49:11 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: TigersEye

:D


39 posted on 12/28/2017 1:52:42 PM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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To: ex91B10; TigersEye

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/


40 posted on 12/28/2017 1:53:59 PM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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