MAN JAILED FOR TRYING TO ROB PEOPLE WITH FINGER GUN

A robber in England who pretended he had a gun by sticking his finger in his pocket has been jailed. Brian Cawley first demanded cash from a Tesco grocery store and then a bookmaker in Paignton, Devon. When his victims pointed out that it was just his fingers, he fled. Five days later he tried to break into a home but was confronted by the 87-year-old householder, who also chased him off and called police. Cawley’s lawyer claimed he was a heroin addict desperate for money who did not succeed in stealing anything and left without causing any violence. Cawley admitted to the crimes and was sentenced to three years and four months.
* Jeeze, if he’d made a fist they would have given him a life sentence.
* It sounds harsh, but his finger was loaded. With callouses.
* “Gimme the money or I’ll poke you!”
* “Look out, he’s got a hangnail!”
* I thought in England, only the bobbies were allowed to carry finger guns.
* What did people do before guns were invented? Make finger-swords?