Jolie Rouge
03-09-2009, 08:46 PM
Cops: Man with ice cream in pants offers owner $69
2 hrs 17 mins ago
FORT PIERCE, Fla. – What would you do for a Klondike bar? Authorities said a man shoved an ice cream bar down his pants and then offered a Texaco station store owner $69 not to turn him in for shoplifting. The owner told police that a 65-year-old man tried to sneak the Klondike bar, along with packages of Ramen noodles and Famous Amos cookies, out of the store without paying Tuesday night.
When the store owner confronted the man as he tried the leave the store, the owner reported that the man pulled the flattened ice cream snack out of his back pocket and offered the owner $69 for it.
The owner called police, and the man was charged with retail theft and violation of probation charges. He was being held on $500 bail.
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Information from: The Stuart News, http://www.tcpalm.com
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090310/ap_on_fe_st/odd_klondike_theft;_ylt=Aj2H.F_A3dqg56rTagCeZ1us0N UE;_ylu=X3oDMTJkOWxkcTU5BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwMzEwL2 9kZF9rbG9uZGlrZV90aGVmdARwb3MDMTcEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9z dG9yeQRzbGsDY29wc21hbndpdGhp
:slap: if he had $69 in his pocket why go to the trouble of stealing what is about 5 dollars worth of merchandise....
2 hrs 17 mins ago
FORT PIERCE, Fla. – What would you do for a Klondike bar? Authorities said a man shoved an ice cream bar down his pants and then offered a Texaco station store owner $69 not to turn him in for shoplifting. The owner told police that a 65-year-old man tried to sneak the Klondike bar, along with packages of Ramen noodles and Famous Amos cookies, out of the store without paying Tuesday night.
When the store owner confronted the man as he tried the leave the store, the owner reported that the man pulled the flattened ice cream snack out of his back pocket and offered the owner $69 for it.
The owner called police, and the man was charged with retail theft and violation of probation charges. He was being held on $500 bail.
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Information from: The Stuart News, http://www.tcpalm.com
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090310/ap_on_fe_st/odd_klondike_theft;_ylt=Aj2H.F_A3dqg56rTagCeZ1us0N UE;_ylu=X3oDMTJkOWxkcTU5BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwMzEwL2 9kZF9rbG9uZGlrZV90aGVmdARwb3MDMTcEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9z dG9yeQRzbGsDY29wc21hbndpdGhp
:slap: if he had $69 in his pocket why go to the trouble of stealing what is about 5 dollars worth of merchandise....