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We Must Follow Procedure

“I’m sure she was following protocol,” said Dani Moschella. “She has to run things by her boss.” One of those “things,” apparently, includes armed robberies. Moschella, a spokeswoman for the Broward County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office, was describing a videotaped encounter between a robber and a drug store clerk. When the robber presented his gun and explained his felonious little plan, the clerk went to get a manager; when the manager came, the robber took him aside and explained again. The manager and the clerk took money from the till and gave it to the robber. Moschella noted that the robber was “fairly calm” and discreet, even asking the clerk to look down, “perhaps,” Moschella says, “so she couldn’t see his face.” The robber was so low key, she says, “It’s likely no one else in the store even knew that he was armed.” (AC/South Florida Sun-Sentinel, WSVN Miami) ...I wonder whether he’d lose his calm if he found out the surveillance camera had caught his face.