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Subscribe to RSSWas he Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama? Seems the people who witnessed a masked man robbing a Burger King restaurant in Lake Park, Fla., weren’t so sure.
Employees initially reported that a man wearing all-black clothing with red gloves and sporting a Ronald Reagan mask held up a Burger King at gunpoint on Tuesday morning, Palm Beach County sheriff's office spokeswoman Teri Barbera told The Palm Beach Post News.
The robber, who had a woman accomplice also wearing a mask (president not specified), demanded money from the cashier and made off with about $400, according to the Miami New Times.
Detectives who reviewed the restaurant’s surveillance video determined the gunman was actually wearing a mask resembling Obama, the Palm Beach Post reported.
There was no explanation for the presidential discrepancy.
It’s not the first time a masked Obama bandit has struck a fast-food restaurant.
On Jan. 28, a man robbed a McDonald’s in Riviera Beach, also in Palm Beach County, while dressed in black wearing an Obama mask, according to the Palm Beach Post. This time, he had white gloves.
Sheriff’s officials didn’t immediately return a call to msnbc.com about whether they think the same person is responsible for both holdups.
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What a coincidence, there's a guy in the White House that looks like Obama that is robbing my kids of their economic future.
You just had to say it, didn't you?...Just had to turn it political, didn't you?
GTFO this forum topic with your politics.
Gee Jakta, what part of Obama & robbing did you miss in this article?
Jakta: Republicans take every opportunity possible to exercise their hate speech.
Obama / Biden 2012
Your kid was robbed long before MY PRESIDENT came to the white house.
Has anyone questioned Barack Obama about his whereabouts at the time?
The Reps are about to rob college kids of their future. Even though our "public servants" were able to loan private banks and investment firms low (0%) interest loans that could be paid back anytime they wanted, our same "LEADERS" want to double the interest rate for college loans. Since our "LEADERS" allowed 15 MILLION illegals in for cheap labor, now our kids can compete or go broke trying to suceeed. And I am NOT a DEM.
He'd just blame it on George W.
Jakta, Yabecoo can say whatever he likes. That's the nice thing about being an American. We have the freedom to say whatever. I do believe that is why I spent 28 years in the miltary so y'all can say what you want to. By the way, I agree with Yabecoo!! Have a wonderful day.
As do I, thanks for your service and my freedom, soldier!
Obama / Biden 2012
@Okie-2790128: Well good for you sir. I'm sure you do. Your country owes you a great debt. But I'm telling Yabecoo not to derail this article into an off-topic, personal political soapbox as too many do.
People like him degenerate any news with any potential political slant and turn it into a slugfest later. I'll keep chiding them as much as I want.
I hope you know what I mean.
Jakta,
Who died and made you the boss. I'll say whatever I want, whenever I want so STFU!!!
Democratic witnesses saw a Reagan mask. Republican witnesses saw an Obama mask.
A crime was committed with this mask in Florida? Great. Whether it was an Obama mask or a Reagan mask is irrelevant. Private guards with guns will now feel free to follow and shoot any unarmed citizen coming back from the store who looks like Obama or Reagan, because "that is how criminals look".
True enough, they both have the same major policies, so what's the difference?
Yea, they are so brain washed every criminal is black out there and they wonder how that kid got killed ....
It is a kind of interesting point they make above...I mean, it is just so obvious to anyone that Obama is robbing people. Lowering taxes. The rat.
If you are stupid enough to think he is lowering taxes then you belong in the trailer house you live in. All the while gas is 5 bucks a gallon haha
@bman-1296270 did you ever consider that the reason for 5.00 a gallon gas is payback for not liking what BP did to the Gulf of Mexico? the best way to get out of paying is to run Obama out of office by blaming him and replace him with the other party. they already owe the oil companies. The reason gas is so high is because several refineries in Texas and California are shut down for maintenance. http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2109474,00.html http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/archives/2012/03/18/gas-prices-still-going-up-refineries-shutting-down by the way Time is a GOP leaning news source.
If that's the case, let it go to $10 a gallon and get him out of town sooner.
I can question all the people I see in the Reagan Mask. I can question all the people I see in the Obama mask. But Lord there is no way I can possibly question ALL the people wearing either mask. Who has the time?
a burger king "king" mask would have been funnier.
You know those presidents - they all look the same.
cept for the latest one.
You mean because he's black or ugly? Surly not because he's middle eastern and can't prove citizenship.
Your an epidemic, can you really say that, Obama has a better body then any other President, and other than maybe Kennedy, he is the best looking we have ever had. Color is no object for me and I'm pretty good looking with a nice body. And you think you know more than those who have had to see prove of citizenship before getting elected President, grow up kid you don't know nothing.
well you did pick the two youngest ones
Kennedy did not have a good body. He had a bad back, but not a war injury as was thought but from humping anything that moved.
cause he's the first non white one.
niki, I didn't say Kennedy had a good body, I said he was another Pres. that was good looking.
this is why I don't much like the death penalty. Witnesses can't even distinguish obama from reagan in a well lit area..but they know exactly who committed a crime on a dark street by a complete stranger...
How do you know it was a mask?
Just a nice way to say it was someone from the community organizers group. Have to say it was a mask lest everyone think the community organizer is racist.
It's not "robbery" if you look like Obama and you take from others...it's "redistribution of wealth", and by all accounts, that's legal.
And if you look like Bush and take from others its called "nation-building" or "taking care of the job creators"; ask Iraq or Halliburton.
LOL yeah, that Obama is a regular Robbin' from 'da Hood!
Well Said David- Gilbert ,AZ. And the ones again blaming Bush is just plain idiots.
When Michelle finds out Obama was at a Burger King she is will be POed!
I would be too, no eating at burger king he will lose that body of his that he works out so well.
Maybe it was Ronald McDonald under the mask.I heard he lost $400 to the burger king while playing poker last Tuesday.
You've just got my vote as the most intelligent post on any comment area in the past month!
Stop it,Random,I blew coffee out my nose when I read your post
Yeah, this is great
you got to admit a robber wearing an Obama Mask is some funny stuff! how appropriate
I can't wait to get that dog dump out of the Whitehouse.
Bottom line is... it was a Fed who robbed them:
Feds = Robbers.
Democrats and Republicans = Robbers who can't agree on how to rob you, but agree that they need your money.
Voters = People who eat at fast food chains and discuss robbers over dinner while disagreeing with each other on who they think is the right robber to rob everyone.
Sane people = The kid with a french fry in his nose and playing with the Happy Meal toy completely ignoring the stuidity of the people around him.
Such hatred....So sad.
Kevin, whats even more sad is sheeple like you that just look through rose colored glasses every day while the wheels fall off this country. All the while eating your strawberry shortcake and day dreaming that everything is ok.
Sure is a lot of crime in Florida... almost as much as Kansas City... he he
News from Florida continues to make other states look smart
Bozo is definately a thief-- I hope they arrest him soon before he spend my great-grandchildren's earnigs!!!
No Bozo in 2012!
Two fries short of a happy meal?
Did the cheese slide off the burger?
Lights are on...nobody home?
Florida...the land of enchantment...what a magical place.
Was there a hanging chad?
I demand a recount.
Sorry, wrong mask.
TO ALL THOSE WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA,
I do not blame you for your mistake. You had the wool pulled over your eyes. He wasn't vetted by the press and you had no idea what you were doing. So, come back and don't think you made a mistake. It's all "OK". You're forgiven......
Forget it Bernie. These sheeple are brainwashed. They are "oh so happy" that the U.S. Has a black President. Yeah, Yeah
Reminds me of the OJ Incident. Cold blooded murder with the blood on his truck but he was black so the black jury turned him loose. What does that tell you?
He had a mask on then also.
I have found that folks who voted for O'nuttma are like a string of Christmas lights.
1/2 are N.T.B. (None To Bright), 1/4 don't work at all and the other 1/4 weren't legal in the first place.
I didn't vote for him, I did read what I could find on him heard one part of one speech of his. When he said he had been to all 56 States, I said NOPE he's a DOPE and he went to college???? I went to High School and work I know way more than him any day.
I did try to convince others NOT TO MAKE THAT MISTAKE of voting for that MORON but.........I voted for Ron Paul on the first go and I'll still vote for him any day he runs.
Tells me we need some new paint on the Whitehouse
I think the only bad thing Obama has left to do, is sign an illegal immigrant bill that allows amnesty equilivant to the one reagon signed. As for Kennedy, he was just a good catholic whore monger
Hey lu-2005066, you just solved the big question...How did Barry Soetoro win? People like you voted for the one who was "cool", looked good, and was a sweet talker with the telepromter. You just explained it!!
Thank you
Okay, let's try to look at this logically. If the thief held up the Burger King for; 'Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce and cheese on a sesame seed bun but hold the pickles' … it was a Reagan mask. If they wanted the cash because they were feeling an unsatisfied sense of entitlement … it was an Obama mask
It was an obama mask