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Where no Klingon has gone before - 7-11 robberies
Colorado Springs Gazette ^
| 02/04/09
| CIDKauf
Posted on 02/04/2009 6:53:10 PM PST by CIDKauf
It may be a galactic first - a Colorado Springs 7-Eleven robbed early today by a man wielding a Klingon Bat'leth blade.
It's the weapon of choice for the war-like race on "Star Trek," but fairly rare in stickups on Earth.
"They had to show me what it was on the Internet," said Colorado Springs police Lt. Steven Tobias.
The robbery happened about 1:45 a.m. at the 7-Eleven at 145 N. Spruce St., off Bijou Street near Interstate 25.
A clerk told police that a man in a dark jacket and a black mask entered the store wielding the long, curved metal blade invented for the science fiction franchise that grew out of the 1960s television series.
The robber got away with an undisclosed sum of cash. A
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: klingonsword
Klingon still out there tonight! I suggest he stay out of the liquor stores lest he bring a knife to a gun fight.
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posted on
02/04/2009 6:53:10 PM PST
by
CIDKauf
To: CIDKauf
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posted on
02/04/2009 6:55:54 PM PST
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FR......Monthly Donors Wanted)
To: CIDKauf
No, Worf! No! You can always do more voice-overs on PBS and Discovery!
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posted on
02/04/2009 6:57:58 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Hey, I could not believe the Egyptian pot story! Am currently eyeing all my pots!
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posted on
02/04/2009 6:59:39 PM PST
by
CIDKauf
(No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
To: CIDKauf
I know!
I have some very old baskets from my Grandma and I watch ‘Antiques Roadshow’ quite often.
One day... :)
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posted on
02/04/2009 7:01:37 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: CIDKauf
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posted on
02/04/2009 7:03:31 PM PST
by
nickcarraway
(Are the Good Times Really Over?)
To: CIDKauf
I don’t know what is stranger about this: the use of the sword in committing the robberies, or the fact that BOTH clerks knew EXACTLY what it was.
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posted on
02/04/2009 7:04:30 PM PST
by
George Smiley
(They're not drinking the Kool-Aid any more. Now they're eating it straight out of the packet.)
To: CIDKauf
It’s got to be the work of Duras. No honor in that family.
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posted on
02/04/2009 7:05:38 PM PST
by
markomalley
(Extra ecclesiam nulla salus)
To: George Smiley
Laughing at that! My God, don’t remind me of any future employees!
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posted on
02/04/2009 7:07:41 PM PST
by
CIDKauf
(No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
To: CIDKauf
REAL Klingons would rob Targ-ets...
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posted on
02/04/2009 7:11:12 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(Send him to Stovo'kor)
To: CIDKauf; Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro
KAPLAH!
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posted on
02/04/2009 7:19:30 PM PST
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: CIDKauf; markomalley
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posted on
02/04/2009 7:26:01 PM PST
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: mikrofon
**REAL Klingons would rob Targ-ets..**
Very funny ... now where’s my PAIN STICK!!
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posted on
02/04/2009 7:33:17 PM PST
by
gwilhelm56
(MULLAH HUSSEIN - which part of "Congress shall make no Law" - do you NOT UNDERSTAND??)
To: CIDKauf
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posted on
02/04/2009 7:37:41 PM PST
by
Free Vulcan
(No prisoners. No mercy. 2010 awaits.....)
To: markomalley
It’s got to be the work of Duras. No honor in that family. It was good day to steal...
"markomalley shoots from the far end of the court...nothin' but net! The local Trekkies go wild!"
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posted on
02/04/2009 8:18:04 PM PST
by
Mamba56
("You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting." - Gen. Curtis LeMay)
To: Free Vulcan
Man, I know almost nothing about Star Trek although I watched Capt. Kirk go for all the good looking girls. I’m very confident that CSPD, where I have many firends, will get this idiot.
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posted on
02/04/2009 8:18:06 PM PST
by
CIDKauf
(No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
“Run thy business, or thy business shall run thee” Benjamin Franklin
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posted on
02/04/2009 8:19:39 PM PST
by
CIDKauf
(No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
To: CIDKauf; Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
02/04/2009 8:57:52 PM PST
by
CIDKauf
(No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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