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Restaurant Heists in Oakland and Emeryville, California, Continue

Everybody be cool. Dining out in the San Francisco Bay Area may have gotten a little more expensive: The blog SFist clues us in on a recent rash of East Bay restaurant "takeover"-style robberies—eight in the past couple of weeks. The most recent robbery in Emeryville follows a similar pattern: "[o]ne of the suspects revealed a black semi-automatic handgun and demanded money from both employees and customers" [cbs5.com]. Prize quote from SFist: "Be careful, Chez Panisse denizens!" [via Eater SF]...

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1 Comment | Posted by Raphael, April 18, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Tagged: Bay Area, California, crime, Emeryville, Oakland, Pulp Fiction, robberies

The Dutch Go Bananas for Cocaine or, Rather, Find Cocaine in Their Bananas

Dutch supermarket staff find millions of dollars of cocaine stashed in banana boxes; "There probably must have been a logistic mistake," says befuddled Limburger spokesman. This never happened while I was stocking shelves....

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Post a Comment | Posted by Nathalie Jordi, January 15, 2007 at 5:39 PM
Tagged: bananas, crime, drugs