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14 September 2012
R. Linda:
Who'd a thunk it? An Irishman hot for Italian pastries and not just any Italian pastry, but a CANNOLI, robbed a north-end bakery in Boston by knifepoint for the delicious treat!
I love a cannoli every now and then meself, but I usually pay for me cannoli, but not a brother Irishman from Newbridge, Ireland. No, Robbie McTernan was just visiting when he had a hankering for the Italian treat. Yes, he did, and I don't know if he thought because he was in America, that pastries were free (don't look at me like that; my very own cousin Sean thought everything in America was free. Yes, I know freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and worse, what they misconstrue for free everything -- land of the FREE). So was it any wonder our Robbie McTernan thought he could just walk in and take one . . . well that isn't what he did exactly.
You see, back on the old sod, especially if you just happen to be in Dublin, there be a lot of employees from certain food shops that will run out with a tray of delights and ask you to try one in the hope they can drum up your business to go inside and actually buy. So when this happens, and it happens a lot, you say "yes, please," and Bob's your uncle, there you are with something free and delicious to munch.
Maybe Mr. McTernan thought that the people at Bova's Bakery forgot to entice him, and maybe feeling put off over it, he decided to be a bad man and rob ONE. Yeah, it was just one, so could he be forgiven for that ONE indulgence? Well, apparently not, especially if the robber named Rob was waving a butter knife (well, I don't know if it was a plastic butter knife, but knife it was). The bakery guy called the police instantly. He was relieved of one of his cannolis by our hungry-for-a-cannoli Irishman.
Can you imagine Mr. McT chuckling to himself, salivating over his prize cannoli? There, he makes his tea and plates his stolen goodie, and JUST as he's to take a bite, he hears commotion at the kitchen door. Not nice to disturb a man's afternoon tea, I tell ya!
What a way to extend a two-week holiday! Because what happened was the police ordered McTernan to surrender his passport and we both know he's going nowhere without THAT. He was also granted bail after he pleaded "Not guilty", and finally, he was granted $2,000 bail.
14 September 2012
R. Linda:
Who'd a thunk it? An Irishman hot for Italian pastries and not just any Italian pastry, but a CANNOLI, robbed a north-end bakery in Boston by knifepoint for the delicious treat!
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| Bova's cream and chocolate cannoli |
You see, back on the old sod, especially if you just happen to be in Dublin, there be a lot of employees from certain food shops that will run out with a tray of delights and ask you to try one in the hope they can drum up your business to go inside and actually buy. So when this happens, and it happens a lot, you say "yes, please," and Bob's your uncle, there you are with something free and delicious to munch.
Maybe Mr. McTernan thought that the people at Bova's Bakery forgot to entice him, and maybe feeling put off over it, he decided to be a bad man and rob ONE. Yeah, it was just one, so could he be forgiven for that ONE indulgence? Well, apparently not, especially if the robber named Rob was waving a butter knife (well, I don't know if it was a plastic butter knife, but knife it was). The bakery guy called the police instantly. He was relieved of one of his cannolis by our hungry-for-a-cannoli Irishman.
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| Scene of the cannoli-napping - Bova's Bakery - Boston |
Can you imagine Mr. McT chuckling to himself, salivating over his prize cannoli? There, he makes his tea and plates his stolen goodie, and JUST as he's to take a bite, he hears commotion at the kitchen door. Not nice to disturb a man's afternoon tea, I tell ya!
What a way to extend a two-week holiday! Because what happened was the police ordered McTernan to surrender his passport and we both know he's going nowhere without THAT. He was also granted bail after he pleaded "Not guilty", and finally, he was granted $2,000 bail.
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| Robert McTernan (does he have the face of a cannoli stealer? I ask ya!) |
So, I leave you with these thoughts:
Did young Robbie intend to extend a two-week holiday by being "forced" to stay? They said he grabbed a knife and demanded the treat, what kind of knife? I thought all that bakeries had were plastic butter knives. Do you think he used one? What was he doing in the Italian neighbourhood in the North end anyway? Do they not have cannolis in the South end? Was the idea of stealing a cannoli premeditated? And finally, do you think he's related to either Dalton or O'Leary? I ask ya!
Update: Prosecutors agreed to reduce the armed robbery charge to larceny and offered nine months probation. The judge ordered McTernan to return to the old sod, where he must perform 50 hours of community service. If he does this, the charge will be dismissed.
Gabe
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Did young Robbie intend to extend a two-week holiday by being "forced" to stay? They said he grabbed a knife and demanded the treat, what kind of knife? I thought all that bakeries had were plastic butter knives. Do you think he used one? What was he doing in the Italian neighbourhood in the North end anyway? Do they not have cannolis in the South end? Was the idea of stealing a cannoli premeditated? And finally, do you think he's related to either Dalton or O'Leary? I ask ya!
Update: Prosecutors agreed to reduce the armed robbery charge to larceny and offered nine months probation. The judge ordered McTernan to return to the old sod, where he must perform 50 hours of community service. If he does this, the charge will be dismissed.
Gabe
Copyright © 2012 All rights reserved
