Criminals are stupid

[Pocketrockets]

About a month ago I got a 2nd job at a gas station / convenience store working the overnight shift 3 days a week. At about 4:45 a.m. on Wednesday morning. a guy comes in and says he wants some lottery scratch-off tickets. He picks a few of the higher dollar ones (10 and 20) and then some 5, 3, and 2 dollar ones until he gets to exactly $100. I'm just about to start ringing them up when he pulls something wrapped in a white plastic bag out of his pocket, points it at me, and tells me to give him everything in the register. I have no idea if what he has is really a gun, but I'm really not too interested in finding out, so I do what he says. After I give him the money he tells me to lie down on the floor, then he reaches over the counter, grabs as many more scratch-off tickets as he can, tells me to count to 50 before I get up, and leaves. I call 911, then walk around the counter to lock the front door, look down, and see that during the course of robbing me he somehow managed to DROP HIS FUCKING DRIVER'S LICENSE ON THE FLOOR.

The cops get there about 2 minutes later and are very amused by this turn of events. They take my statement, fingerprint the front door and the counter, take the security video, and even take a cigarette butt and some spit from the parking lot of the Olive Garden behind the gas station (some people working there thought his car might have been parked there).

One of the cops came by my other job today to tell me they caught the guy and to show me a photo lineup. It took me all of about 5 seconds to pick him out. Then the cop told me that about an hour after I'd been robbed, a girl had cashed one of the stolen lottery tickets at a gas station in a different part of the city (you know how scratch-off tickets have this long string of numbers on the back? yeah, they go in numerical order and are easy as hell to track) and they got a look at the car she was in from that station's surveillance cameras. They checked the address on his license, but he didn't live there any more, so they decided to drive around the neighborhood and see if they'd get lucky with the car. They found the car, with him and the girl sleeping inside, both high out of their minds on heroin. The guy had a few warrants out for his arrest, and a fairly lengthy criminal history, so he's probably going to get quite a few years for this one. He only got $172 plus about $150 in lottery tickets for felony armed robbery. What a waste.

Here's a link to the news story if anyone wants to read it.
ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=178721 (blah, I can't post URL's with less than 10 posts)


tl;dr - a guy robbed the gas station I was working at and managed to drop his driver's license on the floor

[Slapper]

I thought gas stations locked the front door that late and people had to do transactions through a window.

[Pocketrockets]

Depends on where you are. I work in one of the highest-income suburbs of St Louis. There isn't much crime out here. Hell, we don't even require people to prepay, some stupid company policy about it being an inconvenience for the customer.

[Guitarman]

One of the many reasons I will never work with the public again.

[MaachaQ]

I worked 3rd shift at a gas station for a while in college, and our convenience store section was open 24 hours. I was always a bit scared, but when I would only get 1-2 customers inside per 30 minutes (most would pay at the pump and keep going), it wasn't a very big deal. Yeah, it was a high-income area, but it was also near the interstate so we did have a few drive-offs (pumps go prepaid-only after dark, but in the morning go normal). A lady in a town a few miles away was robbed and killed on 3rd shift one night I had been working, and I quit that job not too long after.

[Olo401]

That guy who was on the HMS Beagle -ism.

[Mizango]

Depends on where you are. I work in one of the highest-income suburbs of St Louis. There isn't much crime out here. Hell, we don't even require people to prepay, some stupid company policy about it being an inconvenience for the customer.

Suburbs and St. Louis should not be used in the same sentence lol. I mean call it what it is, if it's Chesterfield, O'Fallon, Florissant, Creve Cour then that I can understand, but when you say St. Louis then I'm assuming you downtown near fucking Natural Bridge and Kings highway and shit. Or some cross the bridge E. St. Louis bullshit, dudes be robbin' and mean muggin' all over the place over there.

We used to live in South County for a long time back in the day. :3


Edited: Just realized this was General :3

[oldoldman]

Dear /bg/....

[Tristam]

A related story, someone I know works in a hospital as a pharmacist, but moonlights at a CVS pharmacy to make some extra money. Anyhoo, she got held up at gunpoint and the thief demanded all the money they had on them, which they gave up.

The thief ran off, but to this day we're scratching our heads wondering why if you robbed a pharmacy, you'd go after the cash on hand and not the walls of drugs, which are worth much much more.