Tip For Would-Be Robbers: Don't Wear Panties On Your Face To The Stick-ups

[DeSwiss]

Man With Panties On Face Attempts To Rob W.Va. Store

The Herald Dispatch
Thursday, May, 10, 2007

INWOOD, W.Va. (AP) — A thief covered his face with a pair of blue women’s underwear and used a pistol-shaped cigarette lighter in a botched robbery of a convenience store, police said. “I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried,” State Police Sgt. T.C. Kearns told The Journal in Martinsburg.

The cashier at first thought it was a joke and refused to give the man any money, so he ran to a Jeep Cherokee and drove away at about 4 a.m. Wednesday, Kearns said. A few minutes later, police stopped a vehicle matching that description and took two men into custody.

Police later charged Steven Clay Stephenson, 34, of Ranson in the convenience story robbery. Kearns said police found a pistol-shaped lighter while searching Stephenson. The underwear was recovered nearby.

Stephenson is charged with nighttime burglary, attempted robber, first-offense driving under the influence, petit larceny and improper registration. He was being held Thursday at the Eastern Regional Jail. The Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office had no record of a defense attorney being assigned yet to represent Stephenson.

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070510/NEWS01/70510020/-1/NEWS13

*** - The robber later told authorities, "I knew I should have worn red panties. Nobody takes you seriously when you have on blue panties. But it was Wednesday, and I wear blue panties to my robberies on Wednesdays."


Stick em' up!

[Nicole]

1. Boxers are way better!

:rofl:

[Orsino]

2. "The underwear was recovered nearby."

Thank goodness that this story has a happy ending. Usually, no one considers the underwear's trauma.