Robber Lets Florida Clerk Call 911 After She Has Heart Pain

[Omaha Steve]

http://omaha.cox.net/cci/newsnational/national?_mode=view&_state=maximized&view=article&id=D8OFUUF80&_action=validatearticle

Robber Lets Florida Clerk Call 911 After She Has Heart Pain
04-13-2007 3:58 PM

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (Associated Press) -- A gunman robbing a convenience store allowed the clerk to call 911 and apologized after the woman said she might be having a heart attack. But he still took $30 and cigarettes, authorities said.

The masked man entered the Kangaroo Express store early Saturday in this Orlando suburb and pointed what appeared to be a semiautomatic handgun at 60-year-old clerk Mary Parker, according to surveillance audio/video released Thursday. He demanded access to the safe, but she said she didn't have the keys.

He told her to empty the cash register into a bag. He then pulled up a stool for her to sit down and told her he was doing this because no one would hire him and he had bills to pay.

She started hyperventilating and pleaded with the gunman for help.

"I have heart trouble. Help me," Parker said.

"I'm sorry, ma'am," the gunman replied.

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[Deja Q]

1. OMG. A compassionate criminal.

:wow:

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Just think of the kind of desperate existence

that would lead you to stick up a store, risking a prison sentence, for $30 & cigarettes.

I'm not justifying what that guy did, but Jesus, what kind of society drives people to acts like that?