Masked Man Robs Convenience Stores With Klingon Sword
Clerks Recognize Sword As Batleth

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Colorado Springs police are looking for a man who hit two 7-Eleven convenience stores early Wednesday, armed with a Klingon sword.

The first robbery was reported at 1:50 a.m., at 145 N Spruce St. The clerk told police a white man in his 20s, wearing a black mask, black jacket, and blue jeans, entered the store with a weapon the clerk recognized from the Star Trek TV series.

The robber demanded money and left with an undisclosed amount.

A half hour later, police received a call from a 7-Eleven at 2407 N. Union Blvd., where a man matching the previous description entered the store with a similar weapon. He also demanded money from the store clerk. The clerk refused and the robber "transported" himself out of the store on foot.

Both clerks described the weapon as a Star Trek Klingon-type sword, called a "Batleth."

Neither clerk was injured in the robberies.

Officers are reviewing the surveillance tapes from inside the store but Lt. David Whitlock said he does not plan to release the video or photographs "at this time."

Hahaha.

Scooped by CavScout.

And with the same dig at Koltar, too.

Ignore list is the mother of thread proliferation, or sth like that

First Off: Real Klingon Fans are too much into the Code of Honor stuff to do a robbery. This was obviously some guy who just likes swords - or stole that item from an acquaintance that likes Star Trek.

Most of us that do conventions stopped being interested in steel weapons quite awhile ago. Thats because at most Sci-Fi conventions the safety and weapons rules do not allow you to have one - so, why bother?

Somewhere I do have a near -perfect reproduction Batleth made out of wood that was handcrafted by a friend in Illinois. Its painted metallic silver and in right light looks like its metal.

I hope the cops catch the idiot who held up the convenience store.


- Ed C.

Yeah, 'cept CS talked smack on Koltar and Engine didn't.  Anyway, I don't think Ed's to blame, 'cause he was with me gunning down devil-gauchos at the 3rd Annual What-The-Fuck Mash-Up in Rio Pendejo.

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Shit! I even read the list of threads to see if someone had beaten me to the punch, but I didn't suspect Cav's thread title. My bad.

For the record, I wouldn't use a bat'leth to hold up a convenience store, either. If you want to take out the cameras before you're in their range, you need a disruptor, duh. Stupid criminals.

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!;282209Yeah, 'cept CS talked smack on Koltar and Engine didn't.  Anyway, I don't think Ed's to blame, 'cause he was with me gunning down devil-gauchos at the 3rd Annual What-The-Fuck Mash-Up in Rio Pendejo.

I think i understood about 2 words of that...

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...and I thought I talked fast....


- Ed C.

Quote from: One Horse Town;282211I think i understood about 2 words of that...

Pendejo and gaucho?

If you can't use it in a fit of rage to kill a motherfucker, what good is it, Koltar?

Seriously.  I mean, robbing convience stores is pretty low rent, but at least he's using a weapon that is acutally... I dunno... dangerous or somethin'.

Me no like this new warmandfuzzytouchyfeely klingon I hear about. Give those motherfuckers some prune juice and let 'em loose to rampage throughout the conventional halls.

There will be blood TONIGHT! - Inigo Montoya

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Quote from: Koltar;282208First Off: Real Klingon Fans are too much into the Code of Honor stuff to do a robbery. This was obviously some guy who just likes swords - or stole that item from an acquaintance that likes Star Trek.

Most of us that do conventions stopped being interested in steel weapons quite awhile ago. Thats because the safety and weapons rules do not allow you to have one - so, why bother?

Somewhere I do have a near -perfect reproduction Batleth made out of wood that was handcrafted by a friend in Illinois. Its painted metallic silver and in right light looks like its metal.

I hope the cops catch the idiot who held up the convenience store.


- Ed C.

Me thinks he doth protest too much. How did you get that thing on a plane?


These 7-11s are just up the road from my house.

QuoteColorado Springs police say a masked man robbed two convenience stores early Wednesday morning and his weapon of choice was a sword.

Police say the first robbery happened at the 7-Eleven off North Spruce near Bijou and I-25 and the second robbery at the 7-Eleven off North Union near the Patty Jewitt Golf Course.

Police say it would be very rare for two separate crooks to rob two different stores with a sword and witnesses described the same sword in both robberies. Police describe the sword as a Star Trek Klingon type sword, specifically a "Batleth."

At the first 7-Eleven police say the suspect got away with an unknown amount of money and the second robbery the suspect got away empty-handed.

Police say no one was injured in either incidence. Witnesses describe the suspect as a white man in his twenties wearing a black jacket.

It's bad enough to rob a place with a batleth. It's that much worse not even to hurt anyone--and in one place, not to even get anything. Pretty sorry-ass Klingon, in my opinion.

I'm tellin' ya, Stu. Kids these days... I swear, I could rob a 7-11 empty handed and get more shit than this dude.

He might as well have used Koltar's namby pamby wooden fake batleth.  I'm tellin' ya, once you've impaled the pasty faced dork across the counter on the tines, all resistance disappears.  Hell, a Batleth is better than a gun in that respect... once you've shot the little prick he's likely to just up and die on ya, and THEN you have to shot the damn register to fucking open it.

Now... its still pretty dumb. A good pocket knife is perfect. Short enough that you aren't going to hit too many vital organs if you poke him a few times and serious enough that once you have he'll do anything you say. My favorite is making walk and quack like  a duck, but I'm just cruel that way...

My buddy at the local paper sent me this link because the whole news room is laughing about the story.

Where no Klingon has gone before - 7-11 robberies