Early yesterday morning, about 3 miles (as the crow flies) from my house, a Speedway gas station was robbed.
The perp was barefoot.
This just gives barefooting a bad name. (Well, not really.)
But here’s the story:
On Tuesday, May 26, 2015, at 2:30am, an unknown male entered the front doors of the Speedway located at E. Main Street and Brice Road and approached the clerk. The clerk thought the male was holding a gun in his right hand down to his side. The suspect demanded money. The clerk complied and gave him money from the cash register. The suspect then fled out the front doors. The suspect is described as: Male/Black, 6’2”- 6’3,” medium build, wearing a black t-shirt, short black pants down to the middle of his shins, black ball cap, red bandana over nose and mouth, and black gloves. The suspect was wearing no socks or shoes.
And here he is.
Robber
It does make one wonder what is going on. Maybe the guy was wearing some flashy, easy-identifiable sports shoes, so he took them off to make himself less identifiable.
I know that if I were about to go out to commit a crime, I’d make sure I’d put on shoes, since everybody would immediately think of me if they heard that a barefoot, old, white guy had committed a crime. (But then they’d probably be able to track me by looking at recent shoe purchases in the region, because I’d have to buy a pair. 🙂 )
Of course, the fact that he did the robbery barefoot means he may have left traces of DNA on the floor. I wonder if there would be enough?
And if they think they catch the guy, can’t you just imagine the police line-up?
The thing is that is that if we were better known, it actually would give us a bad name since the human brain is wired to think of things that are common to a few people as signs that they all in the same ‘gang’. Our brains are also set to thing of those gangs as being small tribal groups. Hence why people will use one or two tiny examples to smear the name of groups numbering millions.
Where are too much DNI on the floor, so its hard and too costly to distinguish robber’s DNI.
Old? You and I have something in common: We’re not young, not old, we’re somewhere in the middle. Some people have a crisis at that age. I just think that in terms of health, especially what my bare feet can do, I’m better than ever and I like this to last for the next fifty years or so. I may not run marathons in my 90s but walking everywhere barefoot, from towns to mountains, with no difficulty would be a nice goal to live towards.
Toe prints should be as good as finger prints to confirm a suspect. I wonder if the police collected some as evidence. I guess there will be not too many different ones … does the gas station have a NSNSNS sign?
Dear Robert the Bob, you are the first suspicion anyway, even disguised as a black one.