From Seattle station KOMO:
Armed robbers hold up three state fair workers in one night
Puyallup police are beefing up patrols around the Washington State Fair after armed robbers hit three times over the weekend.
No one was hurt in the incidents that happened several blocks away from the fair. The robbers struck Sunday night just after the fair closed and workers were heading home.
The State Fair had been operating only three days when robbers decided to move into the surrounding neighborhoods.
Robbery victim Leif Strom was walking in the 1000 block of 7th Avenue Southeast when he got held up. He and another worker at the State Fair were heading east toward home when confronted by four men in a white Buick.
"One of them came up and the other one was behind him and he asked me for all my money and I gave him $6 at first," Strom said.
But Strom had just finished a 10-hour shift selling items at the fair and had been paid $100 in cash.
"But then he pulled out a gun and he asked me for it all, and so I gave him $100 and just walked away before he asked me for my phone or anything," Strom said.
Strom said the robber was only 5'8" tall. Strom stand 6'6" tall. Strom said the man's gun made up for the size difference.
"I guess you feel pretty big when you have a gun," he said.
And the Fair is a Gun Free Zone:
Hat tip to Grouchy Old Cripple for the initial link.
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