TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Terre Haute Police arrest a man for robbing two kids at gunpoint.
Officers picked up Everett Easterling, 40. Detectives say he robbed a 13 and a 17 year old with a gun.
He made off with video games, a DVD player and movies. Easterling had an initial appearance in court Tuesday.
He remains in the Vigo County Jail on $75,000 bond.
Report by: Joe Stoll, WTHI
Normally, I don’t have to wait for someone to do something stupid for me to gripe about, but since I started this blog, I haven’t been out anywhere to really experience any major stupidity. I did run across a really creative site today, and I thought I would share with you. Just click on the link below for some ’stupid’ entertainment.
Ok, I cannot take credit for this story, but hey, it made the world news, and it was pretty stupid. The robbery took place on June 17, 2008.
A lemonade stand led to a lemonade standoff in Terre Haute, Indiana on Tuesday. Police say 18-year-old Steven Tryon robbed the two children running the lemonade stand, then ran and hid inside his nearby home.
The kids followed Tryon to the house, then called police, who spent an hour trying to get the suspect to come out of the house.
The kids say they will reopen their stand, but this time with parental supervision.
They’re still waiting to get their stolen $17.50 back.
It’s being held by the police as evidence.
Tryon is facing felony robbery charges.
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Some people just don’t get it. While at the grocery store, I decided to stop at the Customer Service desk to get a couple of lottery tickets for this weeks drawing. On some days I don’t walk very well due to my arthritis, and this was one of those days. As I pushed my cart towards the counter, limping all the way, I noticed a somewhat dirty looking man coming in the entrance near Customer Service. When he spotted me, he began to run to the counter in front of me. Somewhat amused, but more baffled that he had to run to get in front of an old crippled woman, I laughingly said, “Hey, it’s a tie, now what do we do?”. He turned towards me and said “I only have one thing to do”. “So do I”, I replied, “but go ahead”. At this point, I could tell that he was really confused by my generosity, because he just stood there with that ‘deer in the headlight’ look. Once I let the guy go ahead of me, I realized how fortunate it was that I did. This guy smelled so bad that he couldn’t have had a bath this week. I managed to stay far enough away from that I only had to get hit by the odor once more, and that was just too much. I laughed with the store employees about the whole stupid ordeal after the smelly guy left.