Wait a minute, he did this within sight of the police station? Way to go, Dan.
Not only that, despite their proximity, it took the donut-munchers quite a while to arrive at the scene.
He was able to go back into the store twice more, "open the lottery machine", steal a broom, and break out his car window.
If the clerk had been in possesion of an EVIL gun, this guy would have been removed from the very shallow end of the gene pool.