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Saundra Lewis, a convenience-store clerk in Durham, North Carolina, who was held up by a man in February, says the robber almost couldn’t stop apologizing. He said he was sorry when he began the holdup, again when he rejected her plea to think about what he was doing, and again as he fled. A few seconds later he returned and said, “I’m sorry–really, I’m sorry.” Nevertheless he kept the money. But the man who robbed a tobacco shop in Mesa, Arizona, in March not only returned the next night to rob the clerk again, but chastised her for having been rude to him the night before.
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A 45-year-old Leesport, Pennsylvania, man fled a street robbery attempt in September and was shot in the buttocks by the person who’d tried to rob him. The .22-caliber bullet lodged in his penis, but he was in satisfactory condition after surgery.
South Carolina’s Sumter Item newspaper reported in September that on at least seven occasions this year state representative Grady Brown paid constituents’ utility bills out of his campaign treasury. Brown said he saw nothing wrong with the practice, which he called “common,” adding, “A person is not going to vote for you for that reason.”
