Posted on 07/19/2004 10:16:05 AM PDT by Mister Sophisticate
A thief broke into an ice cream store early today, knocked over a large container of strawberry syrup, dropped his wallet and apparently slipped in the goo.
"It was kind of a give-away," Jackson County Sheriff's Capt. David Luce said this morning.
A deputy responding to a 12:24 a.m. alarm at TJ's Dairy Freeze, 516 E. McDevitt Ave., located a wallet inside and found a jug of syrup spilled on the floor. It was unclear if anything was taken.
Entry was through a side window.
The deputy used an ID in the wallet to track down and arrest a 24-year-old Jackson man.
"He still had strawberry syrup all over him," Luce said.
The suspect will be arraigned today in court on a charge of breaking and entering.
Sweet!
Depends on what the meaning of "strawberry syrup" is.
This reminds me of my grand jury duty two years ago; had to listen to criminal ineptitude stories like this one every second Wednesday. Funniest one was the idiot who tried to get into a bank vault by way of crawling along the ceiling tiles, thinking the vault would have an open top.
"A thief broke into an ice cream store early today, knocked over a large container of strawberry syrup, dropped his wallet and apparently slipped in the goo."
Why is he called a "thief"? The article said it didn't look like he took anything. He should be referred to as the "trespessar". Yes?
One of my favorite Citizen Pat stories was once read on the
Tonight Show.
Supposedly a city-desk writer was handed a photo of workers
standing over a hole and was asked to caption the photo, with
no idea of why it was taken.
It was published something like:
City workers peered in to a hole on Mechanic street that had
apparently existed for centuries, but went undiscovered until
crew members had removed the dirt.
ping
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