Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/18/melonhead-men-rob-convenience.html
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I wonder if they’re intentionally going for a “disarm them with humor” strategy.
Also, I don’t think I’ll get any closer to an excuse to post a link to “Things I bought at Sheetz…”
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I think I would give them my money for the performance art alone.
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If they were serious about getting away with this, the distinctive truck they drove to the crime should have had a melon-disguise too.
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See? You’d have gotten away scott-free.
I was thinking something like this:
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These costumed villains are damned lucky that a certain hammer-wielding superhero wasn’t anywhere nearby.
And no, I’m not talking about Thor.
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I don’t know if I’m the only one this is happening to but it’s happening a lot lately- clicking the BBS Link at the bottom of the article is just reloading the page instead of taking me to BBS.
Searching around and going off links from the tags and bringing up the article page from that is what gets me a working BBS link.
This is been happening for the last few weeks and has happened at least six or seven times by now.
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Typical for the police to discriminate against highly melonated people.
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I expect it’s a bug in their CMS.
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And no, I’m not talking about Thor.
Though the Gallagher/Gallagher Too thing reads like something out of a comic book.
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Same here
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…and these are not the hammer.
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Were they Tolkien fans?
“Speak, friend, and enter.”
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Watermelons are not ripe in Virginia until later this Summer. These melons have a purchase trail.
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I guess with most people wearing masks these day, the fashionable criminal has to do something to stand out from the crowd.
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Dot you want a sticky head? Because that’s how you get a sticky head
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Most thieves just have sticky fingers.
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An excuse to post this:
You’re twistin’ my melon man
ETA
Me too. Getting very old, now.
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