[Avid-L2] Re: OT - Pink's Hot Dogs

And he didn't take a hot dog? Fools wait in line for 20 minutes or more for those. :-/

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "avidlist" <avidlist@...> wrote:
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> LOS ANGELES -- An armed man who tried to take money from the safe at Pink's Hot Dogs early Monday had to settle for just $20.
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> The robbery at the famed hot dog stand in the 700 block of North La Brea Avenue happened about 3 a.m., according to detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department's Wilshire Division.
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> Two employees had just closed the stand and were leaving via the rear door when they saw a man crouched behind a chair in the patio area.
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> He stood up and approached the employees, armed with a handgun.
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> The suspect demanded they take him to the safe, according to police, but when they got there, the workers told him they didn't know the combination.
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> At that point, he demanded money from them, and one handed him a $20 bill from a tip jar on the counter.
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> The suspect told the two not to move or he would shoot them, and then he took off.
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> The man was described as black, about 30 years old, 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing about 170 pounds. He was wearing a black jacket, black jeans and a gray ski cap with a handkerchief over his face.
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> Anyone with information about his identity or whereabouts was asked to call detectives at (213) 473-0154.
> Copyright © 2010, KTLA-TV, Los Angeles
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