Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Meet Robert Sylvester

What you are seeing is the final moments before Illinois Police put so much lead into Mr. Sylvester, that you could sharpen his head and use him as a pencil.

Miraculously, Mr. Sylvester is ONLY in critical condition as of this posting.

What caused all of this you ask?
Apparently, Mr. Sylvester took it upon himself to rob a "Check N' Go" in Bloomington, IL, and THEN led police on a high speed chase.
What happened next is the stuff that Hollywood Counter-Heroes are made of.
Mr. Sylvester, gun in hand and cigarette dangling from his lips decided to jump the barricade and engage his enemy.

In movies it works.
In this case....not so much.

I'll bet my caption above his head is pretty much accurate as to the final barb in the internal dialogue battle he was having with himself.

UPDATE: Mr. Sylvester is no longer with us. The original newsfeed I saw the story on was incorrect about him being in critical condition.