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2014-01-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Teens In Muslim Garb Try, Fail To Rob Gun Shop
[PhillyNews] MOST TEENAGERS do dumb things. But not trying-to-rob-Joe-Galiano dumb.

Galiano is the owner of Suburban Armory, the gun shop on MacDade Boulevard in Collingdale, Delaware County. There is a giant gun-shaped sign on the roof. Inside, Galiano is surrounded by guns, including the .45-caliber pistol on his hip. Can't miss it.

And the cop shoppe is just around the corner from the shop.

Despite these conspicuous crime deterrents, two teenagers nonetheless decided to throw on burqas and pull a silver handgun on Galiano about 1:40 p.m. yesterday in a botched attempt to stick him up, police said.
This is why sensible societies ban face coverings...
"They had the whole-body Moslem garb," Collingdale Police Chief Robert Adams said. "They came in with the gun and pointed it for a holdup."

Galiano, faced with the incongruous image of a male dressed in female Moslem garb waving a gun around, decided to make use of one of the many firearms at his disposal.

"It doesn't make any sense," Adams said of the attempted robbery. "He carries a gun and it's right out there in the open. He pulled it out and shot."

Cops say Galiano fired one shot at the teens, ages 15 and 17. Neither was struck, but the .45-caliber blast apparently made them see the error of their ways. They ran from the store.

One of the teens hopped onto the SEPTA Route 114 bus toward Chester and tried unsuccessfully to hide in the back. Police apprehended him and found the silver handgun on the floor of the bus.

The other teen was tossed in the clink
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behind a trolley stop, covered in mud and sweating profusely. Police say they recovered the burqas, a backpack with duct tape and other evidence between the Suburban Armory and the trolley stop.

Adams said he is not identifying the teens because of their ages. Their parents were called to the station. Pending charges include robbery, possession of an instrument of crime, reckless endangerment and drug possession.
Posted by trailing wife 2014-01-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Wonder where they picked up the olde boyinaburqa trick? Probably voracious readers of Rantburg and got an evil idea.

No... wait...
Posted by Shipman 2014-01-05 05:41||   2014-01-05 05:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Pending charges include robbery, possession of an instrument of crime, reckless endangerment....

....and public defecation.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-05 07:35||   2014-01-05 07:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Very weird. A couple years ago two idiots in muzz garb would come to gun shows in western PA and walk around striking poses and smirking. Eventually they were refused admittance to the shows. Any connection? I wonder...
Posted by M. Murcek 2014-01-05 08:07||   2014-01-05 08:07|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd give the story a thumbs up for the Idiots of the Day award. This Dumb and Dumber duo never even got to the duct tape stage of their so-called failed plan. Moral of the story? Galiano should spend a little more time at the range to sharpen up his aim.
Posted by JohnQC 2014-01-05 09:24||   2014-01-05 09:24|| Front Page Top

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