Guy robs stores with Bat'leth

Get this, a guy robs not one, but TWO 7-Eleven stores with a Klingon Bat’leth! What in the world? We got Trekkies getting desperate here, thanks to the economic crisis. All those new movie toys aren’t going to be cheap! I am predicting more robberies with movie weapons. Lightsabers, phasers, ray guns, blasters, Krull Glaives, and Tron Discs will be everywhere! Frightful times.

Pic Shows Man Robbing Stores With Klingon Sword
Clerks Recognize Sword As ‘Bat’leth’

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A surveillance picture released by police Wednesday afternoon shows a man armed with what appears to be a small Klingon sword, holding up a 7-Eleven convenience store.

That same man robbed another 7-Eleven store store a half-hour later, and remains at large, Colorado Springs police Lt. David Whitlock said.

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 “bat’leth.”

Neither clerk was injured in the robberies.