Angry Cigar Smoker Assaults Gas Station Clerk and Candy Rack: Police
The man and his friend jumped over the counter at the gas station and threatened to beat the clerk, according to the police report.
A gas station clerk saw a candy rack get attacked and almost shared its fate after he gave a customer some bad news. On Dec. 17, a man went into Mobil Gas, located at 431 W. 14th St., and asked for a certain type of cigar. When the clerk told the man he did not have it, the man went into a rage and pulled down a rack of candy, according to the report. Sign up for Chicago Heights Patch news alerts. The angry smoker then went out to the vehicle he arrived in, a 1998 gold Pontiac. The clerk went out after him and wrote down the man's license plate number, according to the report. That just made him even more angry. The man and an accomplice followed the clerk back into the business, demanding he give them the piece of paper with the plate …
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