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kid brings bat to rob a gun store!

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Maverick9 said:
Not sure if serious. I googled and looked in legal dictionaries and they all say 'smash and grab robbery'. Can you elucidate?
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Yes, serious. Marshaul got to it before I did, so see his post just above. Force or threat of force against a person as an element of the theft.

Thus, taking a purse from a grocery cart while the shopper's back is turned would be larceny. Threatening to smash her face unless she gives over the purse would be robbery.

Smashing a display case in a jewelry store, grabbing some items, and running wouldn't necessarily be robbery. Threatening the clerk with the bat, and then smashing the display case changes it from larceny to robbery.
 
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Citizen said:
There's an information fail in the media text, too.

Where's the robbery? A smash-and-grab is not a robbery. Where's the information that supports the robbery label? Who did the crook threaten with the bat in order to obtain the goods?

Garbage media.
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Because the store owner was present and a weapon was used, in Texas and Oklahoma it is Aggravated Robbery and Armed Robbery respectively.
 
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mjcromp said:
Reminds me of the old Indiana Jones movie with the guy waving the sword and Indy pulls out the gun. Problem solved!
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The script had Indy getting in a long sword fight with the guy. But Harrison Ford was sick and when it came time to do the scene he didn't feel up to it and improvised one of the most memorable parts of the film.
 
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MAC702 said:
The script had Indy getting in a long sword fight with the guy. But Harrison Ford was sick and when it came time to do the scene he didn't feel up to it and improvised one of the most memorable parts of the film.
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Ronald Lacey made that movie ... he died @ age 55 ....
 
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