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The employees at a Waffle House restaurant in Norcross, Ga., knew there was going to be trouble when the man walked in: he was wearing a ski mask and carrying a pitchfork. Sure enough, the man announced a robbery. He used the pitchfork to herd the employees into a back room, and then went for the cash register. “When he realized he couldn’t get the cash register open, he took the whole cash register and exited the store,” said Police Chief Warren Summers — “with his pitchfork.” Employees followed him out to the parking lot and in the excitement, the robber dropped the pitchfork; an employee picked it up and chased after him. As the robber jumped into his pickup truck, still carrying the cash register, the employee used the pitchfork to smash out the truck’s back window. Police later arrested a suspect, Jeffrey Willard Wooten, 50, and of course commented on his unusual weapon.“It wouldn’t be an offensive weapon in your garden,” Summers said, “but it was in a Waffle House.” (RC/Atlanta Journal-Constitution) ...Yeah, well, so are the waffles.