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  • HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET–No. 4

    Posted on March 30th, 2009 zshapiro No comments

    Jerome Marquis Blanchett is not the brightest person around. He not only robbed an ex police chief but he did it at a convention of police officers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Blanchett pulled a large semi-automatic handgun on the chief in the restroom at the Harrisburg Holiday Inn which was hosting the convention and demanded his money and his cell phone. He then threatened the chief that he would kill him if the chief followed him. The victim, John Comparetto, using a gun from his ankle holster, which Blanchett did not take from him, quickly, with the help of several other officers at the convention arrested Blanchett and took him to the Dauphin County Jail where he is being held on a million dollar bail.

    At the time of the robbery Blanchett was out on bail for four other robberies. You would think that someone who had already been arrested for four robberies would know better than to try a fifth. No details were provided on the other four robberies but with Blanchett’s luck he probably tried to rob a judge in open court or President Obama while he was swearing in a new head of the Secret Service.

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