A burglary went stale when a janitor surprised two intruders at a VFW post and pummeled them with two old loaves of bread and a box of sweet rolls. The teenagers dropped part of the loot and ran to avoid more bun beating. Janitor Dean Mitchell didn`t feel like chasing the pair.
”I`m 70 years old and it would have been a chore catching up with them. They lit out,” the former sailor said.
Mitchell opened Post 2093 about 5 a.m. Thursday and stepped over two knapsacks-one filled with liquor and cigarettes.
”I knew something was funny. Then here`s those two young kids coming around the corner by the popcorn machine,” he said. ”I let out a big noise and said a few things.”
”I had two bags of stale bread for the ducks I feed every morning and a box of Entenmann`s sticky buns. I started hitting them with those.”
The two crooks, younger than Mitchell by at least 50 years, ”were busy defending themselves,” he said.
The burglars didn`t make off with much-maybe $150 worth of change and cigarettes, said post commander George Gray.
