FULLERTON, Calif. — Authorities are looking for a man who tried to rob a fast-food drive-thru at gunpoint while wearing a plastic bag over his head but gave up when an employee shut the window and walked away. A man with a brown plastic bag over his head pulled up to the drive-thru window in a "small" vehicle, pointed a black handgun at an employee and demanded money, Basham said. The employee responded by shutting the drive-through window and walking off, Basham said, and the would-be robber drove away in an unknown direction.
Grade A embarrassment to robbers everywhere. Just another example of the declining status of the professional stick up man. Time was that robbers and stick up men were stuff of American Folklore, heroes to some. The Wild West had Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickock and The Outlaw Jesse James. Before that there was Robin Hood, and much later we had Bonnie and Clyde.
And now what do we have? A guy too lazy to properly disguise himself (and too dumb to realize putting a plastic bag over his head is never a good idea), and so uncommitted that he just gave up when the clerk walked away. Get out of your damn car and march back in there and demand what is rightfully yours!
Just another in a long line of a generation of quitters. How is the American society going to respect what you do if you can't even respect yourself? No one said this was going to be easy, people aren't just going to fork over money to you with out some form of threat. This country needs a hero right now, and with the Barefoot Bandit locked up this guy could have filled the void. Instead he's just another guy who faltered when the chance for the spotlight was in reach.
PS-What are the chances that he works there? Just got off shift and drove around to the drive thru to try and make some extra cash? Doesn't seem so far fetched given his other brilliant decisions.
