Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/29/woman-robs-liquor-store-during.html
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Pro tip:
If you’re caught stealing, and the rightful owner offers forgiveness if you’ll just return their property, take that offer.
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Another example of why a universal income is a humane choice.
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Right, talk about last chances.
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I thought the story would be that all cops assumed she was part of the training exercise and that she therefore got away with it. That would have been much more amusing.
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dozens of cops were training over the road
Like, above it? I mean, I guess cars and stuff that’s in the road is technically “over” it, too.
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The woman chose to make a run for it, Faris said.
"She left with the money on foot," Faris said.
Both classic lines for a love song.
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I’ve never heard the term ‘over the road’ used for anything other than trucking and that generally means truckers who are traveling long distance often through multiple states.
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Yeah, to me it sounds like they were hovering above the road.
“Go on, take the money and run.” --Steve Miller Band
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“Hoo, hoo!”
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Cute. I wonder if she’s single?
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It’s always* meant “across the street” as used here to me.
* Well, obviously not always. I haven’t been around for that long and there was† were that those periods without language.
† Sorry for the edit, but i suddenly remembered an acid trip.
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From context here, I thought it might be intended to mean “across the street” but checking the original story, I see it report:
Dozens of deputies in a monthly training at a nearby building on Cherry
Road heard the robbery call on the radio, jumped in patrol cars and
quickly arrived on scene, Faris said.
If they had to drive there, it sure seems like they were further away than just simply across the street.
Looking more into it, the store was “Express Beverage store on Celanese Road” and the police were “at a nearby building on Cherry Road.”
That’s pretty far from “across the street.”
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Not to nitpick or anything, but this Rock Hill, SOUTH Carolina, just across the state line from NORTH Carolina, where I live.
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Unless he was lying. If she was desperate enough to rob the store in the first place she probably did not have much faith in him keeping his word.
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Socialist! /S 
But they were flying, ‘over the road’.
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That’s some fine police work there, Lou. Now all that map needs is some circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back.
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Rock Hill PD Hover Unit, obviously.
