Saturday, December 20, 2008
Would-be robber tries to hold up Fort Worth fried chicken joint using a tree branch
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The standoff in the chicken joint must have looked something like this. (Without all the castle accoutrements, natch.)
You can't make this stuff up, folks. (Well, you could, but no one would buy it.)
Speaking of not buying it, the would-be crook who walked into Eddie's Fried Chicken (in the 1900 block of Hemphill St., in Fort Worth) on Thursday night (Dec. 18) wasn't interested in purchasing any wings, but he DID threaten to wing employees with the weapon he was brandishing if they didn't turn over the register receipts.
His weapon of choice? A tree branch.
Enter a game (but by no means lame) 56-year-old employee bearing a broom, who sparred with the organically-inclined criminal (later identified as Michael Steven Reed, 50) as another employee began poking him with a chair. Surrounded and "outgunned," as it were, Reed took off and was quickly apprehended by police. He's in the Mansfield jail charged with suspicion of aggravated robbery at the time of this report.
posted by JM
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Travis Bush Verified
"but he DID threaten to wing employees"
Eh that one didn't have a leg to stand on..
6 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
alexander troup Verified
Some Jailbirds cant kick the chicken wing of having to be .......fly by night and plucked.....by the end of an evening, but having a tree branch as a weapon.. ?....some birds can never learn.....A/T. Fried livers please..
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Jason Rice Verified
New website idea:
MandatorySterilizationPetitions.com
(ok, that particular one is for Paris Hilton, but you get the idea)
6 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Travis Bush Verified
Sorry Jason, I prefer my chickens free range.
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