Posted on 08/26/2005 6:08:02 AM PDT by Pharmboy
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) - A 420-pound man was charged with felony robbery, accused of stealing beer from the same store he stole from in January, authorities said. Levi Timbana, 23, of Fort Hall was accused of walking into the Cowboy Oil store Aug. 9 and taking a swing at a clerk who refused to sell him beer after hours. Prosecutors say the clerk held Timbana at bay with a metal pipe until police arrived; Timbana's companion allegedly fled with two cases of beer.
Police said Timbana punched a different clerk at the store during a January beer heist. He spent 43 days in jail in that case.
"You have to wonder if he's done this before and got away with it because of his size," Police Capt. Kirk Nelson said.
If convicted of felony robbery, Timbana could face up to life in prison. He remained in the Bannock County Jail in lieu of $70,000 bond. Arraignment was set for Monday.
Quite tough. A man that big has probably got 200 lbs of muscle mass just to move all that weight around. Underneath the blubber is a whole lot of strength.
Bwahahahah!
With a guy that size, the getaway car would have to have been a stake truck with a lift gate.
Hollow leg?
Har har! :-))
Fort Hall is the Indian reservation of the Bannock tribe of Shoshone Indians. The tribe has an extremely high alcoholism rate and mortality at an early age is high. I've always assumed this was an extreme result of FedGovt nannie care of them.
In/around the Pocatello city center, it was (in my time there) common to see drunk or drugged Indians shortly after the welfare payments came in.
Very few from the Bannock tribe went to school beyond the state-mandated eighth grade or 14th birthday, whichever came first. In fact, in 1959 (the year I graduated) the first Bannock ever graduated from Poky HS. My sis-in-law told me a few years later that he died of alcoholism at 27 years of age.
I remember vividly in Jr. High the 13 year old kids from the reservation coming to school drunk or drugged or getting that way after they arrived, and sitting the principals office till the end of school day.
It truly is a pitiful sight to see virtually an entire tribe, or at least the Fort Hall members of the tribe, living in such a state of despair. I left Pocatello in fall of 1959, returning occasionally to visit family, most recently a year ago. It appears that if anything, the problem has worsened over the years. If there was ever a problem begging for a solution this is it. Wont happen, though.
"How tough would it be to clean a 420 pounder's clack?"
Just don't let him take you to the floor or you're pancaked.
The first one up the spout is HP - the rest is FN full jacketed. I've had the pistol ramped and throated and polished, but I don't want a failure to feed at an inappropriate time . . . like when there's a 420 pound man running (waddling? falling?) at me.
Reasonable approach.
I've got a full mag of HPs, then a selection of HP and FMJ mags, close at hand, bedside. But then I feel really, really good about my Glock .45's reliablility at feeding hollowpoints.
Actually, so does my 1911A1, but I carried for years (I really don't anymore, even though I probably should -- different job) so I just used the FMJ (with the FN as leaning a little towards HPs).
620. Yes, she weighed 620. They cremated her. There was no coffin available.
Boy I bet that fire sizzled! (sorry)
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