Fill ’er Up

The clerk at the Texaco Starmart in Shawnee, Kan., called the police to say he had been robbed. The 19-year-old clerk told officers that a man called the store and ordered him to put tape over the store’s security cameras, and then came in and robbed him at gunpoint. Police took a look and sure enough, the lenses had tape over them. Investigators seized the store’s security videotape, which shows the unidentified clerk taping over the lens. But the clerk had used transparent tape, and they could still see what was going on afterward. “It’s one of those things where [the videotape] looks a little fuzzy, but I don’t see any robbery in there,” an investigator said. The stolen money was recovered from a trash bin in the store, and the clerk was released pending charges. (AP) ...Wouldn’t anyone who claimed a robbery was phoned in be an automatic suspect anyway?