Not only did John Columbus Beane leave penniless after two armed robbery attempts on November 7, his shotgun was reduced to pieces by patrons at a bar he held up who allegedly took the weapon from the would-be robber and clubbed him with it repeatedly.
The Charleston Gazette reports that Beane had first attempted to rob a Pizza place, but after the cashier fled through the back exit the rober was unable to open the register. After that, Beane hit the bar where patrons hit him:
“‘I thought maybe he was a weirdo,’ Harman said, at first not realizing that Beane was there to rob the place. ‘Halloween’s over.’
Beane pointed the shotgun at Harman and in a near-whisper told her to hand over whatever was in the cash register. That’s when local drifter Steven Thaxton, one of the two patrons in the bar at the time, stepped in.
Thaxton laughed, and according to Harman, said, ‘You’re not going to try and rob us with a BB gun, are you?”
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