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I’ll Be Back

After running up a $38 tab, a man tried to leave the restaurant at Browns Social House in North Vancouver, B.C., Canada. When the staff stopped him to demand payment, the man said he was just going next door, and would be back. Next door is a gas station; within minutes, police got a robbery alarm call at the gas station. By the time they arrived, the man had returned to the restaurant to pay his bill, with the money he had allegedly just robbed from the gas station. “It is not every day a criminal will tell a victim what his next move will be and then go and just do it,” said North Vancouver RCMP Cpl. Richard De Jong. Corey Henderson, 21, was charged with robbery, possession of a dangerous weapon, and fraudulently obtaining food and beverage. (RC/Vancouver Sun) ...Wanna bet that he had an overabundance of “beverage”?
Original Publication Date: 11 September 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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