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Lemonade stand thief brought to justice
I wanted to give this story a funny title like "Lemonade stand theft turns sour," but frankly its way too depressing for that. In Indiana, Steve Tron robbed a little girl's lemonade stand before running into a nearby house. He didn't get away with his dastardley deed, though: the cops showed up within an hour to arrest him. Let that be a lesson to all lemonade stand thieves.
A young girl whose lemonade stand was robbed of $17.50 chased the suspect into a nearby home and called police, who spent nearly an hour trying to coax the young man into surrendering.
"The guy came up and was, like, 'Give me your money,' " said Dominique Morefield, who was running the lemonade stand with a group of friends. "I was shocked. It was just my immediate reaction to chase after him."
Dominique dashed after the man who ran into a house, and then she called police. Officers eventually persuaded Steve Tryon, 18, to come outside after 45 minutes and arrested him on a preliminary felony charge of robbery.
The kids said they would continue to sell lemonade, but with an adult's supervision.
June 17, 2008 at 12:01 pm by julianw, 425 views, 6 comments
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Rob Petersat 12:59 on June 17th, 2008
Ha, good for her for sticking up for herself.
at 13:04 on June 17th, 2008
julianw, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 13:42 on June 17th, 2008
Who does that!? That's just weird...
at 14:10 on June 17th, 2008
Maybe she should save her lemonade money to buy a pistol.
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xBetty Butcharxat 14:24 on June 17th, 2008
i just draw silly things :P
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at 14:35 on June 17th, 2008
Update: this isn't the first lemonade stand heist on record. Last summer, an eleven-year old juice vendor was victimized in a violent theft.