A Tennessee man apparently became enamored of the clerk working at a convenience store he frequented. Police say 26-year-old Dustin Burgett walked into the Bonnertown Store & Deli and asked the 19-year-old clerk to marry him. She told him no – that she had a family, a boyfriend, and she wasn’t interested. He left the store, but later came back in his pickup truck, walked up to the clerk outside the store, pulled a bouquet of roses from behind his back and asked again. The clerk again said no, so Burgett then pulled a knife from his overalls (* Overalls! Oh THAT’S a nice touch!) and told her that if he didn’t get married that day to somebody, then somebody was going to die. The woman – along with another clerk – ran inside the store and they locked themselves in the bathroom. Police were called. In his truck was $3,600 in cash, a loaded shotgun, a ring and a bouquet of red roses. Police later determined that Mr. Burgett was undergoing some mental stress, and in the end he was charged with aggravated assault.
* Don’t you love these ‘meet cute’ stories?
* And here he had them registered at the convenience store and everything.
* Trying to marry the clerk where you shop is taking the concept of convenience a little too far.
* He still didn’t get it. As they took him away, he asked if she’d wait for him.
* He should have no problem finding a jailhouse bride.