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Short man robs Dunkin' Donuts with a large sword
It could have been a knife, too, that the 5-foot-4 guy was carrying. (Hartford Courant)
July 22, 2008 | Permalink
Comments
W. C. Fields makes a joke about this in The Bank Dick.
Posted by: Torgo | Jul 22, 2008 12:13:57 PM
With such a vague description they should find this fellow in no time at all.
Posted by: Reno | Jul 22, 2008 12:19:17 PM
It's obvious he's holding a machete. People are so ignorant.
Posted by: thereverendtwerp | Jul 22, 2008 12:31:55 PM
it's not a machete. it's a short sword. does 1d4.
Posted by: lester | Jul 22, 2008 12:39:25 PM
Is it just me or does the guy in the surveillance picture look an awful lot like Jason? Or Michael Meyers? Whoever it was that wore the hockey mask.
Posted by: lawdog | Jul 22, 2008 12:43:04 PM
The mayor of munchkinland has finally snapped!!!!!!
Posted by: Belle | Jul 22, 2008 12:54:53 PM
"Tolland" isn't much of a location clue--there's a DD every 25 feet in CT. I'm pretty sure that its in the zoning ordinances
"For every 2500 square feet of level ground there must be 1.3 Dunkin Donuts."
*Somehow* with commercial credit in crapper, DD is building one right around the cornor from me. As if the one 3 miles up the road, the one .5 mile down the road and the one sort of a third of a mile SSW were just not meeting the pastry output requirements for a relatively undeveloped part of CT.
Posted by: nellagain | Jul 22, 2008 1:49:35 PM
nellagain;
Please ask 14 if there's any chance for me to make up for my plebian behavior. We could meet at your new DD on its grand opening. Dutch, this time.
Posted by: thomas | Jul 22, 2008 3:05:17 PM
I can't say anything about his height because he's taller than I am. You'd think Davy Jones was my dad.......
Posted by: thereverendtwerp | Jul 22, 2008 4:36:50 PM
"He pulled a knife on me that long! The sword that Lee surrendered to Grant was a potato peeler by comparison."
- W.C. Fields in "The Bank Dick"
Posted by: msgelter | Jul 22, 2008 5:27:12 PM
EVIDENTLY A DARK KNIGHT
Posted by: | Jul 23, 2008 4:40:32 AM
It was an assagai. It was that... no it was THAT long.
- W. C. Fields in "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man"
Posted by: russ | Jul 23, 2008 5:11:50 AM
Lester, a short sword actually does 1d6, daggers are 1d4, but both can benefit from Weapon Finesse.
Posted by: Lou Ford Prefect | Jul 23, 2008 6:19:03 AM
thomas, you really should know better, a man your age. Number 14 went off for a lost weekend with some guy, who, quite frankly, looks like a boy scout. Anyway he was "dressed" as a boy scout. She said something about "all-purpose tools" and off they went taking the station wagon with them. Honestly, I could just spit.
Posted by: nellagain | Jul 23, 2008 8:40:40 AM
nellagain,
Alas Alack, alas alack, and then to his doughnuts sank him back.
Ring toss with the honey dipped will never be the same.
Posted by: thomas | Jul 23, 2008 9:01:05 AM
