Dufus Tries Robbery with Gun Shaped Cologne Bottle
What a wonderful dork-pie-bone head this guy is. Judging from the mug shot, it looks like the guy from Primo Tanning beat up the would be robber pretty good once the smell revealed it wasn’t really a gun.
Police: Gun shaped cologne bottle used in Akron robbery attempt
February 28, 2008 | www.wkyc.com
AKRON — Akron police say they’ve never quite seen anything like this before, after they say a man used a cologne bottle to try and pull a robbery.
Investigators say 41-year-old Michael Kaminski’s weapon of choice was a bottle of Stetson cologne, shaped like a gun.
Police say Kaminski approached an employee of the Highland Square Video store around 6:45 last night.
The worker was behind the store, talking with an employee of a next door business, Primo Tanning.
Kaminski allegedly told the workers, with his hand in his pocket, to get back into the store.
That’s when one of the men grabbed the suspect, and scuffled with him.
“The supposed gun had flopped out on the ground,” says the employee of Highland Square Video, who did not want to be identified. “I grabbed it and as soon as I picked it up you could feel how light it was and it was at least a toy and later on from the aroma you could tell it was bottle of cologne.”
Both employees held Kaminski down until police arrived.
They discovered that one of the suspect’s weapons was actually a bottle of cologne. The other was a knife.
“Very, very crazy,” says Chris Waters, who owns the video store. “A bottle of cologne, who would think that would be a weapon of choice? Not very smart.”
“This is the first time that I have come across where someone has used a bottle shaped as a gun as a weapon,” adds Lt. Rick Edwards of the Akron Police Department.
Kaminski is charged with Aggravated Robbery and Carrying a Concealed Weapon, for the knife.
He’s been booked into the Summit County Jail.
I found your tone of this content offensive. You did a poor job of reporting on this incident. This man, Michael Kaminski was the lead guiartist for the NYC rock band, Cop Shoot Cop. He has toured all over Europe and England, settling back in NYC. He unfortunately moved back to Akron to be near his family. He has an addiction. He took a toy gun and attempted to do something very desperate. When he dropped the toy gun (Cologne bottle) he was beaten nearly to death by some idiot who thinks he is a marital arts dude. Shameful. Shame on your station and you for reporting such inaccurates in dealing with the real story behind this incident. He never would hurt even a fly and this creep beat him up and was asked to stop and he continued to beat Michael up. I hope Michael sues that man for everything he has.
This man is a fine muscian and artist struggling with an addiction. He did something foolish under the influence. The man that beat him up continued to beat Michael as he lay on the ground while women were pleading with this martial arts guy to stop beating Michael. I believe Michael should sue this man who beat him for everything he has and then some. He knew Michael was only five feet five, maybe, 120 pounds and he kicked him and nearly beat him to death. Any police man that would have done that would be sued for police brutality. Shameful. I think Mike has an excellent case here.
This is such BS, this man is an accomplished musician and artist. Your reporting is not accurate, he was beaten to a pulp after the cologne bottle fell to the ground. Shameful and you should be ashamed of yourself for writing such a vile article about a good man with a terrible addiction who had a fake gun and a little knife his Grandfather had given him when he was a little boy. You should be fired for that vile article.
I do not doubt an interesting chain of events lead to Kaminski’s actions, but this isn’t http://www.kaminsky.com.
Attempting armed robbery with a bottle of Stetson cologne (not even a toy gun) is a supremely hilariously, idiotic, and malicious act. You say he “Wouldn’t hurt a fly” but he was trying to rob people, with a “gun” and real guns can kill. Robbery is illegal and morally wrong. Even toddlers know the concept of “mine.”
Addiction as a legal defense? It’s been tried and doesn’t work, better he plead temporary insanity. Addiction as a moral defense? For your next google spree, I suggest the word “enabler.”
You wrote 3 notes, but do you know where you are sending them? Under the headline, there’s byline info, which you not doubt missed in your zeal. Perhaps a little further reading on this site would elucidate you as to the origin of most of it’s content.
However, per your strenuous suggestions I’m firing myself and am quite ashamed and feel simply vile. Though I am pleased to find out I now own a “station.”
Since it has now been revealed that you own some sort of “station”, will you consider airing re-runs of the 60s “Batman” tv series? I haven’t seen them in years.
Thanks very much.