a grocery store held up by a man with… a dummy gun

2023-06-03 20:40:00

published on Saturday, June 03, 2023 at 10:40 p.m.

It was with an old Nintendo gun that a 25-year-old man intended to rob a convenience store in South Carolina, reports CNN.

The outcome could have been much more lucrative for the thief. In the United States, as explained CNNin the state of South Carolina, the police arrested an individual by the name of David Joseph Dalesandro.

This 25-year-old man had tried – he even succeeded – to rob a grocery store… all thanks to a dummy weapon invented by Nintendo in the 1980s, the NES Zapper. This came with the game Duck Hunt. To make his wrongdoing credible, the suspect had taken the initiative to repaint his fake weapon beforehand, covering it with a layer of black paint.

A meager booty

Commercially, at least on the Western market, this accessory was covered at the time in a mixture of gray and orange. Garish tones which would have probably revealed the dummy dimension of the weapon. To commit his robbery, David Joseph Dalesandro wore a wig, and wore a hooded jacket and a mask, not to mention the NES Zapper, hanging from his belt, the authorities explained to our colleagues. After he requested the sum of 300 dollars (280 euros) from the cashier, the latter, probably steeped in fear, granted his request.

Alerted to this theft, the police officers quickly found the robber in a nearby parking lot. He had kept the Nintendo weapon in his possession and was taken into custody after being arrested. His dummy weapon was confiscated from him by the police who placed it in the exhibits. It therefore took little for David Joseph Dalesandro to reach the rank of bandit of dummy weapons having succeeded, like, for example, the French Michel Vaujour who had managed to escape from the prison of Health (Paris)… thanks to a soap gun blackened with shoe polish.

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