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Cold Stone Robber Takes the Money, Leaves His Ice Cream
Not the left-behind ice cream (Photo by samantha celera via Flickr)
A man walks into an ice cream shop and orders up a scoop of the coffee flavor. Sounds pretty standard, right? Well, when it came to a customer who walked into the Cold Stone Creamery in the 3200 block of Foothill Boulevard Sunday afternoon, things got a little unusual after the man followed up his order with a robbery.
The customer "placed a note on the shop’s counter demanding all the money, including change, inside the cash register," explains the Glendale News-Press. The astonished clerk asked the robber if he was serious.
He was.
The clerk handed over the money, and the ice cream. But the robber only took the money, leaving the ice cream on the counter.
“And he didn’t pay for it,” adds the store manager.
The robber is described as "being 5 foot 9 inches tall to 5 foot 11 inches tall, Latino or Asian. He was wearing Aviator-style sunglasses, a glove on his right hand and a dark-colored sweatshirt and baseball hat."
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