Woman Bites Two Librarians in Robbery
Tue Sep 23, 8:37 AM ET
Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo!
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. - A woman bit two librarians after they tried to stop her from
stealing about $70 from the public library's cash drawer.
One of the librarians, Debbie Barry, said that a man tried to distract her Saturday while a woman
grabbed the money and fled.
Barry and fellow librarian Christina Crouch chased the woman outside and wrestled with her while
library patrons called police. The woman bit Crouch on the chest and Barry's thumb before the man
pulled her free and they ran off.
"When I grabbed her it was kind of stupid," Barry told the Journal Review newspaper. "What I
should have done was yanked her hair and sat on her, but I didn't think of it at the time."
Anna M. Davis, 24, and her live-in boyfriend, Kevin T. Kamradt, 25, were caught a few minutes
later, police Officer Bob Rivers said. An officer at the Montgomery County Jail reported finding
$71 in Davis' underwear.
Davis and Kamradt were both jailed Monday on robbery and battery charges, a jail officer said.
Crouch and Barry were treated for their injuries and returned to work Monday.
Larry Hathaway, director of the Crawfordsville District Public Library, said the library's cash
drawer had been moved from a desk in the main foyer after three thefts in recent months.
"I tell the librarians not to try to argue with robbers," Hathaway said.
Barry said the weekend robbery was the first time she had seen anyone stealing money from the
library in the city about 40 miles west of Indianapolis.
"If she'd have just dropped the money I would have been happy," Barry said. "But she wouldn't do
it, and that made me mad because it's happened before and we're tired of it."
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)
how effed up do you have to be to think of robbing a library?
I mean, $70??? Whoo-hoo! That'll keep you in crack for what? 6 hours?
THough I'd imagine the security's less intimidating.
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)
hA HA. Horace, that's exactly what I was thinking.
Here this woman is, scheming to get rich, thinking OF COURSE! of the library, and rubbing her hands together saying MWAH HA HA!
― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)
I didn't say it was a Classic Heist, but it involved a team of experts. The man was an expert at distracting librarians--maybe he was chewing gum with his mouth open???
The woman was an expert at stuffing money in her underpants.
Forget Beyonce and Jay-Z, here's yr Bonnie & Clyde '03.
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)
"What I should have done was yanked her hair and sat on her, but I didn't think of it at the time."
To often do I find myself reflecting on incidents in my workplace with these exact words. And also, is it not crazier than a cut snake to bite someone on the chest - you'd need an awfully big gape to cause real damage.
― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)