Crime May Not Pay...

...but at least it's a good workout...

Loot’s weight foiled Brighton robber, police say

An 18-year-old man was arrested just minutes after he robbed a Brighton convenience store at gunpoint Monday night, police said, adding that his effort to escape was slowed by the $300 in coins the clerk had handed over during the crime.

Derek Price of Roxbury was apprehended nearby around 9:15 p.m. after the robbery at Quality Market on North Beacon Street, police said. He was held on $25,000 bail yesterday after arraignment in Brighton Municipal Court on charges including armed robbery, assault with a dangerous weapon, and unlawfully carrying a loaded firearm.

You've just got to love it when greed gets the better of someone. The goblin could have gotten away with a quick $500 for flashing a gun at a store clerk. Apparently this Einstein wannabe thought that convenience stores routinely keep sacks of gold lying around under the counter, too. The clerk complied, and wound up thwarting the robbery entirely by doing exactly what he was told...

The best line in the article?

“We tell folks not to resist during a robbery, because the stakes are just too high,’’ [DA Daniel] Conley said in a statement. “But when it came to outwitting the assailant, this clerk gave no quarter.’’

Heh. Quarter. Money puns...

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