The man who liked his stogies too much: Is such a thing possible? Well, if it ends in a mug shots being taken, the answer is yes. We all like to economize on our stogies now and then, explaining why it’s particularly vital to have a discount premium cigar store saved to your “Favorites” list on your net browser to buy cigars online. But when you are stealing boxes of premium cigars from your local gas station, you’re not a cigar lover-you’re simply a robber.
Newspapers report that precisely this scenario unfolded latterly near Palm Beach, Florida, where a person wearing a black ski mask (as in the flicks) stole a local Citco at gunpoint. He made off with all the cash in the register-and one cigar box. That’s all. No candies, condoms or air fresheners; no auto parts, mags, or food. This fellow must have known precisely what he was after. Points towards him for the depth and degree of his cigar appreciation, but not for his way of showing it.
A similar incident was recently reported in Rosenberg, Texas. This case concerned a 17 year old man robbing eighty dollars’ worth of smokes from a local Shamrock station. Hopefully this young man’s parents can straighten him out and at least this robbery didn’t involve holding anybody at gunpoint. The same applies for a Howell, New Jersey situation in which 4 men, ages 21, 34, thirty-five, and 36, eluded the gas station entirely and went straight for a smoke store. (Larger age, allegedly, doesn’t bring wisdom.) Reports are confusing concerning whether a 4th similar robbery, this one happening in Youngstown, Ohio, concerned the specter of assault with a deadly weapon; in this case, 2 men with their hands in their pockets (as if carrying guns) stole a local Speedway, making off with 55 smokes of a brand that I will not name, except to assert that it wasn’t precisely a premium brand.
If only all of these folks had known that phillies cigars are also available at a discount via the net. Ordering your typical stogies online is a much better deal than having to come up with fifty thousand greenbacks in bail each, which is the bail set by Howell, New Jersey, police for the 4 men concerned in the cigar store robbery, who were apprehended and charged before the break-in could become a reality.