Asshat - Neither bros nor hose

The very first Asshat of 2010.  Maybe I will look back on the Asshats of last year and see if we can determine a winner for the full year, another project for another time perhaps as I am just sort of typing out loud here.  For the time being we need to polish up the crown for Dustin Abney.

Dustin's claim to fame isn't just the fact he is a robber, heck that wouldn't even be Asshat worthy, rather it is in the manner he did it, by first telling an employee outside the store that he planned on robbing the store and asking whether the employee would like to get him something while he was busy robbing the place.  At that point you start to venture into Asshat territory by being the courteous robber tipping off a store employee of your plans.  The kicker you ask?  Dustin was armed....with a garden hose nozzle.  That's a good bingo and we have Asshat #1 of 2010.  From the Indianapolis Star

January 2, 2010

Robbery suspect arrested before he leaves CVS

Police say they broke up a drugstore robbery early Friday on the Southwestside by arresting the suspect -- "armed" with a water hose nozzle -- before he could get out of the store.

Dustin Abney, 27, 4800 block of Red Horizon Boulevard, faces preliminary charges of robbery and criminal confinement. He was being held on $200,000 bond at the Marion County Jail.

Abney was arrested by officer Daniel Frank of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, who responded to a report of a robbery in progress at the CVS pharmacy, 3705 Kentucky Ave.

A police report said Abney approached an employee who was taking a smoking break outside the store, announced he was going to rob the business and asked whether the employee wanted any money or pills. The employee went inside and called 911.

The report said Abney returned to the store a few minutes later with his hand in a sweatshirt pocket, ordered the store worker to the pharmacy counter and pulled out a list of prescription drugs he wanted.

Police arrived before he could leave the store.