I'd say that this is movie-plot material, but it's been done a couple times already.
Except that in the movies...it works.
Posted on 03/20/2016 6:38:52 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Pennsylvania Turnpike officials say the suspect shot and killed by police after a robbery attempt that turned violent was a retired state trooper.
The suspect has been identified as Trooper Clarence Briggs of Newville, Pennsylvania.
It happened just before 7 a.m. Sunday at the Fort Littleton Interchange in Fulton County in South Central Pennsylvania.
According to police, Briggs tied up two people, one of whom has been identified as 55-year-old Danny Crouse, inside a building next to the toll booths.
(Excerpt) Read more at 6abc.com ...
Every day, it seems.
Couldn’t make it on the pension, eh?
Briggs (the retired state trooper) was reported to be unloading the contents of an armored vehicle he had stolen into his personal vehicle when he was approached.
Donuts getting pricey.
How was he supposed to make it on $100,000 a year?
That’s an amazing headline. It contains its own anti-thesis.
Getting more and more like MeHEEco all the time, it seems.
Gosh, I wonder why.
I'd say that this is movie-plot material, but it's been done a couple times already.
Except that in the movies...it works.
I used to live in that neck of the woods. Queue the banjos.
I know toll prices are sky high now but my first thought was he was hauling bags of quarters.
Jason robbed an armored vehicle? :)
Briggs, who was from Newville, retired in January 2012 from the Newville station of Troop T in Cumberland County, which is part of the turnpike system. Cain, the commander of Troop T, said it was possible Briggs had been waiting for the collection vehicle, but he declined to comment on whether an investigation was focusing on the retired trooper’s familiarity with turnpike operations and collection procedures.
[doh]
And you thought he only preyed on naughty teenagers... :)
might’ve made a good sequel.
he wasn’t even supernatural in the first one. his mother was the killer
The actress took the gig because it paid 14k, enough for a new car :)
Did you know you can rearrange the letters in the name “Clarence Briggs” to spell out BLAME-IT-ON-TRUMP? /sarc>
Flippin’ moron wastes 2 lives and gets killed in the process. Didn’t get to spend a penny of the stolen loot.
Not to speak of the Heist involved in the Robbery....
Really bad misleading headline. Trooper tied up two who escaped. He was killed.
Trooper got one of the escapees and also ended Heist...
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