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If I run the risk of spending 15 years in prison for armed robbery I think I'd pick a business that has a lot of cash on hand at any given time. When I think of businesses that have lots of cash on hand dollar stores don't come to mind. I guess I wouldn't make a good criminal.
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My wife actually runs a dollar store that just happened to be robbed last night. She was not there, thankfully.
At about 9 pm, with no customers in the store, and three employees (which is a lot for dollar stores at that time of night), three men, one of them armed, walked into the store wearing masks and robbed the place. As luck would have it, the video system is down and won't be fixed until after Thanksgiving. The three men stole the contents of the safe, to include all the change, and the contents of the cash drawers. They wanted the top safe as well (where all of the drops go), but that's on a timer. These geniuses decided to have the manager set the timer and then they kidnapped all of the employees, taking them for a ride in their car, leaving the store unattended for about ten minutes. By the time they got back, there were still no customers, and they had missed the allotted time to open the safe. They decided not to stick around for another shot at that money. All in all, they made off with just over $1500 in cash and change. Split three ways that's $500 per person. Not a lot for 15 years in prison if caught. Of course, now the police have a description of these idiots car. Knowing my wife's employees, they probably don't have the license plate number to go with it, though.
Dollar stores are easy targets. For the people of that neighborhood, $500 would get them what they need. Their philosophy is just keep robbing places as the need for money comes up. Sooner or later they will be caught.
When she go the call she said she hoped she wouldn't have to go in there. I said, if you do, I'm going, too, and I'm not going without my weapon.
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