Ex-Merc Hits Rock Bottom

By Nathan Hodge
Earlier this month, a convenience store clerk in Shelbyville, Tennessee confounded an armed robbery attempt. While the robber made off with $90, the clerk, 69-year-old Frank Dickerson, closed the luckless bandit’s fingers in the cash register — and beaned him in the head with a well-aimed beer can as he made his exit.

Police subsequently arrested Richard Lowell “Rick” Blanchard and charged him in the convenience store robbery; the Shelbyville Times-Gazette said he was being held at Bedford County Jail on $150,000 bond.

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