Md. police searching for banana robber
MONROVIA, MD The 7-11 on Fingerboard Road in Monrovia has been robbed before, but never
like this. At 12:45 a.m., a masked man walked up to the counter and grabbed-
-a banana. He aimed it at the clerk and demanded cash.
"What's he think he's going to do with a banana?! Ain't much you can do with
a banana! Throw the peel down and hope he slips on it," said resident
Michael Benton.
Police said the suspect hit the clerk with the fruit, but the clerk fought
back with a real weapon. As a surveillance camera rolled, the clerk grabbed
a knife and chased the man out of the store.
"I wouldn't have done that. I would have just given him whatever he wanted
and let him go," said nearby store owner Jodie Capone.
"That's a little weird! He's bananas," said Rockville resident Sue Corle.
The fruit-wielding wanna be thief got away with nothing and the banana
bandit's botched crime has nearby workers feeling empowered. If he comes
back, they said will fight back.
"They're scissors that I use to cut silk. And they're more of a weapon than
a banana," said a local employee Melody Weed.
And in a strange twist, last night before this all happened, the store
manager baked her customers a treat--banana bread.