Westerns often show the robbers using a bandana to cover their faces. Bandanas were commonly used back then to filter the air for horseback riders. Now that we have these safety guidelines and are supposed to be wearing face masks anyway so you’d think most criminals would just take advantage of it. For the most part criminals are using the masks to their advantage, but a couple of ridiculous robbers in Virginia thought they came up with an even better idea. They decided to use watermelons to mask their faces…
“Police said two people arrived at a Sheetz in Louisa in a lifted 2006 black Toyota Tacoma at 9:35 p.m. on May 5. The suspects wore hollowed-out watermelons with holes cut out for the eyes into the convenience store where they committed larceny,” the outlet reported.
One suspected has been arrested. Justin Rogers, 20, “was charged with wearing a mask in public while committing larceny, underage possession of alcohol, and petit larceny of alcohol,” the outlet reported.”
“Sheetz customer Barry Welch said he was kind of blown away when he saw the photos, “but it wasn’t super shocking being out here in Louisa, we’ve always had some crazy new stories going around. I definitely give them some points for ingenuity.”
“Welch, however, was surprised that the suspects chose watermelons for masks.
“Well I was like at a time like this you could’ve worn any kind of mask, but to come up with a watermelon,” he told the outlet.”
“Candice Wendt, another customer, said “I think it’s ridiculous. Innovative but ridiculous. The amount of work that you have to do to actually hollow-out a watermelon to stick it on your head, I think, is kind of crazy…” “…why? Why would they do that? It’s so stupid,” she asked.”
I wonder did they eat the watermelon and then think these would make great masks for a robbery? Or was it planned? Either way this is just plain ridiculous.
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