SHWANEE, Kansas - A Shawnee convenience store clerk will remember to use duct tape next time he decides to rip off hisemployers. The 19-year-old clerk at the Texaco
Starmart told police early Thursday that a man had
called the store and ordered him to tape over the
camera lenses. Then the man supposedly walked in,
pointed a pistol at the clerk and demanded money. The
story would have been believable, had the clerk not
used transparent tape to cover the lens of the camera.
According to Shawnee Police Lt. Mitch Brim, It´s one
of those things where (the videotape) looks a little
fuzzy, but I don´t see any robbery in there. Within
hours, police were writing a report describing how the
clerk had staged the crime himself. They released the
clerk and planned to send a report to the district
attorney´s office.