Man Robs A Convenience Store By Using His Finger As A Fake Gun

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Patch- Police on Thursday released video of a man who robbed a convenience store in the Harbor Gateway area. The robbery occurred at 11:55 p.m. on Nov. 11, when the man entered the store in the 500 block of West El Segundo Boulevard, grabbed a bottle of water and proceeded to the front counter, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. “After waiting for multiple customers to leave the store, he simulated a handgun and ordered employees to take money out of the cash register and place it on the counter,” according to a police statement. “He then jumped over the counter and removed around $300 … from the cash register.” He’s described as white or Hispanic, 45 to 65 years old, 5-feet-9 inches tall and around 250 pounds.

Now this may come off as a little bit of a Monday morning quarterbacking since I didn’t have a dude trying to rob me with what could be a gun. But that was just an all-time terrible job out of the cashiers at this convenience store. I’m just a blogger, I don’t know the first thing about what it takes to rob a convenience store. But I feel like anyone that works at a convenience store, liquor store, or anywhere else that is a hotbed for stickups should know if a guy is capable of actually bringing a loaded gun to a store and using it. And this guy’s fedora + voice combination tells me that the answer here is a resounding NO. Someone you see at the dog track on Christmas? Yes. Stickup man? Definitely not. A convenience store employeee has has HAS to be able to sniff out a finger gun gangster. It’s more important to the job than basic math or being able to lift a box and stock shelves.

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Now don’t get me wrong, using a finger gun is as savvy as it gets. Straight out of the Ray Kinsella playbook. No fuss, no muss and the potential sentence if you get caught is nothing compared to if it was actual armed robbery. Not to mention the description on this guy. A 45-65 year old white or Hispanic man in Cali that checks in at 5’9″ and 250 lbs? Good luck finding that needle in a haystack. And even if you do find him, you think you can catch that athletic specimen? Those rolls over the counter were more dynamic than anything I saw during the NFL playoffs this weekend. Do your thing, El Ladrón de los Dedos. It’s your world. We are all just paying rent in it.