Bizarre News in the Cigar Community
The man who adored his cigars too much. Is such a thing conceivable? Well, if it comes to a mug shots being taken, the answer is yes. We all like to save money on our stogies now and then, which is why it’s especially vital to have a smaller premium cigar store saved to your “Favorites” list on your internet browser. But when you’re purloining boxes of backwoods cigars from your local gas station, you’re not a cigar lover-you’re merely a robber.
Newspapers report that precisely this scenario unfolded latterly near Palm Beach, Florida, where a person wearing a full ski mask (as in the pictures) stole a local Citgo at gunpoint. He made off with all the money in the register-and a cigar box. That’s it. No candies, sheaths or air fresheners; no automobile parts, magazines, or food. This fellow must have known precisely what he was after. Points toward him for the depth and degree of his cigar appreciation, but not for his technique of showing it.
A corresponding situation was recently reported in Rosenberg, Texas. This case concerned a seventeen-year-old guy burgling eighty dollars’ worth of smokes from a local Shamrock station. Hopefully this young man’s parents can straighten him out and at least this theft did not involve holding anyone at gunpoint. The same goes for a Howell, New Jersey incident in which four men, ages twenty-one, thirty-four, 35, and thirty six, eluded the gas station completely and went straight for a cigar shop. (Bigger age, apparently, does not bring knowledge.)
Reports are misleading concerning whether a fourth similar theft, this one happening in Youngstown, Ohio, concerned the threat of attack with a perilous weapon; in this example, a couple of men with their hands in their pockets (as if carrying guns) robbed a local Speedway, making off with fifty-five smokes of a brand that I won’t name, except to assert that it was not precisely a premium brand. If only all these people had known that many hand-made cigars are also available at a reduction via the web. Ordering premium discount cigars on the internet is a much better deal than having to pay $50,000 big ones in bail each, which is the bail set by Howell, New Jersey, cops for the four men involved in the cigar store theft, who were apprehended and charged before the break-in could become a fact.
