An armed robbery at a branch of
Burger King in Stockton, California was stopped in its tracks when a
quick-thinking employee at the restaurant stole the getaway car.
Armed robbers Jeremy Lovitt and
Gabriel Gonzalez burst into the Burger King and demanded cash but they reckoned
without the employee who had slipped out of the back door to call for help.
He was confronted by the thieves’ getaway car which had been left, in
ironic disregard for the area’s apparently high crime levels, with the key in
the ignition and the engine running.
When the robbers came out of the restaurant and found their means of
escape missing they were completely flummoxed and the police arrested them at
the scene.
I do love a good incompetent criminal story and this one certainly doesn’t
disappoint, kudos to the employee for beating the robbers at their own game.
Have to say that this really was a comedy of errors from the robbers, I
mean leaving the keys in the ignition with the engine running in an area known
to have high levels of crime, ok so they wanted to make a quick getaway but
that really is cutting one too many corners.
It’s obvious what they should have done headed for the drive-thru, that
way they wouldn’t have needed to leave the car; they would have got the cash
much quicker and would most likely have got away.
I bet the police had a good laugh when they booked them in at the station.
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