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Security camera image of armed robber.

Convenience store robbed at gunpoint

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Walter Geiger
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Tuesday, September 18. 2012
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Violent crime, now an all-too-familiar problem in Barnesville-Lamar County, reared its ugly head again Monday night when a local convenience store was robbed at gunpoint.

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#1 Dan Hamrick on 09/18/12 at 11:40 AM
I had just stopped in for a ginger ale and a pack of salems !Atlanta was leading Denver 10 to 0 I told one regular customer the score ! Local guy in the pallet business ! It was hardly anyone there! Thank the Good Lord everyone is ok !Dan Hamrick
#2 Fed Up on 09/18/12 at 11:58 AM
Get out your guns a protect your selfs. I wonder what time of night this was and where the three officers on duty were. I know about 12 AM they were all piled up at the Huddle House as usual when I come home.
#3 Fed Up on 09/18/12 at 12:00 PM
OOPS guess I should have read the article more closely.
#4 Julia Heidbrink on 09/18/12 at 04:46 PM
Still, the criminal element seems to be getting bolder. Not a good thing for our county.
#5 Don Pelosi on 09/18/12 at 06:29 PM
Yep
#6 M. C. on 09/18/12 at 06:30 PM
your kidd'n right?a black male robbing a convenience store,no way.well i'll be.
#7 George Strollo on 09/18/12 at 09:35 PM
I thought Obama fixed all that ?
Hope and Change.
#8 Lacey Sparks on 09/18/12 at 10:07 PM
I don't care who did it, I just hope they are caught. We frequent this store often and the employees are awesome.
#9 Fed Up on 09/19/12 at 10:53 AM
Where's Hambone when you need him?
#10 no name on 09/19/12 at 11:24 AM
Good investment on that security camera....
I'm sure they will pick up the perp in no time with that photo...
#11 Guy Fawkes on 09/19/12 at 01:01 PM
No kidding. They would have done better to save the money on the worthless camera and buy their clerk a gun.
#12 Guy Fawkes on 09/19/12 at 01:06 PM
Why is it that we can put cameras on intersections that can take clear photographs of license plates of people that run through red lights, but can't get a half-way decent camera in convenience stores? No wonder they get robbed: the thugs know they will never be ID'ed by the video.
#13 George Strollo on 09/19/12 at 09:45 PM
Darth Vader ?
#14 Tom Rauch on 09/20/12 at 08:12 AM
Cost and goals.

Not saying it is this case, but often times stores put cameras up to watch hands in the cash register and the counter. Not to ID walk in people.

It's a several thousand dollars for a good camera system in a store that watches multiple views clearly. A good license plate camera is many thousands of dollars by itself, and only focuses on one lane at one distance.

It's an expensive investment, but if I had a store I'd sure spend the money for something in focus pointed at someone's face.
#15 Cats on 09/20/12 at 08:39 AM
Let me try this one.... Because that stupid camera up in Griffin was paid for with taxpayers dollars and those governmental agencies don't care how they spend our money so the sky's the limit.
Whereas the convenience store pays for their own equipment and money is an issue in the private sector.
#16 Tom Rauch on 09/21/12 at 04:05 PM
A good four camera system including recorder, less installation, is about $500.
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