Y-100 - A 17-year-old was arrested for an armed robbery in Akron last night. A man told police that the teen had pointed a gun at him on Hammel Street and taken a pack of cigarettes. The victim says he watched the robber entered a nearby house. When police went to investigate they found the teenager in an upstairs bedroom pretending to sleep. They recovered the cigarettes and the gun and the teen was charged with aggravated robbery.
Something seems off with this story. Like I'm pretty sure this kid was set up just so the police would have an arrest to show for themselves.
Does it not seem to reason that someone who was jonesing for cigarettes bad enough that they'd hold someone up at gun point would have chain smoked the shit out of that pack? No way in hell the perp would go home and take nap before he ripped through those butts with shocking efficiency. Nicotine addiction just doesn't work that way. I've never smoked a day in my life but even I get how this works.
And who are they to claim he was pretending to sleep? Do they have access to his REM cycles? Didn't think so, we've either got a blatant case of police mischief here or a case of mistaken identity. How many cigarette smokers also own a gun? Like all of them, right? Those two things always go hand in hand when I stereotype either segment of society. So couldn't they have just stumbled upon some innocent teenage smoker who also happened to own a heater?
Someone needs to get the ACLU on this case stat.
