[Sca-cooks] Very OT: deadly assault bananas foil robbery.

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Woman Pelts Robbery Suspect With Bananas
> By James Macpherson
> Associated Press Writer
> 
> Published: Mar 25, 2005 8:00 AM EST
> 
> BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Crystal Senger stopped at a convenience store to 
> buy pop and cigarettes, and she saw the clerk being choked in a robbery 
> attempt. She ran to call for help. Then she started throwing bananas.
> 
> Senger, 19, said she grew up playing organized baseball, and used those
> skills to pelt the suspect in the head with every banana she threw, from
> about 10 feet away.
> 
> "I was seven-for-seven," Senger said in a telephone interview Thursday.
> "They were green bananas, not the ripe mushy ones, so they hurt."
> 
> Senger said the suspect, whom police said was intoxicated, was stunned
> from getting hit by the flying fruit.
> 
> A 17-year-old was arrested after he bolted from the Devils Lake store 
> and tripped over a piece of wood, after a short foot chase, Police Chief 
> Bruce Kemmet said. The teen had no weapon and no money was taken from 
> the store, Kemmet said.
> 
> Police said the suspect, who was not identified because of his age, 
> stood more than 6 feet tall, and weighed about 300 pounds. He allegedly 
> entered the Holiday Station Store about 1 a.m. Tuesday.
> 
> "It's pretty simple. The guy walked into the store and said something to
> the effect of "Give me what I want,"' Kemmet said.
> 
> "He threw me around like I was nothing," said store clerk Ed Bingham, 
> "and I weigh 220 pounds." Bingham said the suspect kicked and punched 
> him for what "felt like forever." Bingham, 43, said he pushed a button 
> that alerted the store's security company.
> 
> "When I walked in the store, I saw Ed in a choke hold, yelling for help
> and gasping for air," Senger said. "There was blood everywhere."  She 
> ran out and told her friend to call 911 on her cell phone. "She was in
> shock, so I had to do it," Senger said.
> 
> Senger said she came back in the store and "screamed at the top of my
> lungs at him to stop." When she was sure the suspect was unarmed, she
> began bombarding him with bananas.
> 
> Senger said the basket of bananas was the closest thing she could find.
> "If there would have been cans of soup on the counter, I would have 
> thrown those at him," she said.
> 
> Bingham, who has worked at the store 15 years, said he had a swollen eye
> and needed four stitches to close a cut on his eyebrow. He returned to
> work Wednesday night.
> 
> Kemmet said the suspect faces a number of charges in juvenile court,
> including robbery, assault and underage drinking.

Saint Phlip, 
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....




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