# Is That a Banana In Your Pocket . . . ?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 10, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165 "2003-02-10T19:27:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/1 "2003-02-10T19:27:18Z")
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) – A Lynchburg man who robbed a convenience store by pretending a banana was a gun was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Patrick Jason Mann, 29, entered the 7-Eleven store last July 4. He took a banana, put it in his pocket like a gun and demanded that the clerk give him money from the register. Mann left the store with about $10 and was arrested soon after leaving. “There really wasn’t much logic to what I did that night,” Mann said. “When you’re in the grip of that drug, it doesn’t make you a very rational person.”
—Any word on _appeal?_
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/2 "2003-02-10T19:38:42Z")
I don’t know, you know how slippery these things can be…
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/3 "2003-02-10T19:40:31Z")
So, did they just bust him for the stickup, or did they also nail him for shoplifting? Otherwise, hey, free banana…
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/4 "2003-02-10T19:41:05Z")
“that drug”???
Did he mean the banana?
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/5 "2003-02-10T19:42:04Z")
Didn’t the Dead Milkmen smoke banana peels?
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### Author:  [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/6 "2003-02-10T19:45:34Z")
Remember, bananas don’t kill people…
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### Author:  [@WillGolfForFood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillGolfForFood)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/7 "2003-02-10T19:57:12Z")
Allright, people, this is a slip-up! Anybody moves, and I peel this thing!
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### Author:  [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/8 "2003-02-10T20:48:42Z")
Hey don’t laugh. That banana might have been loaded.
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### Author:  [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/9 "2003-02-10T21:27:08Z")
**lieu** , I was thinking the exact same thing!
Surely there must be more to the story. He must have another addiction other than bananas. Mustn’t he?!?
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### Author:  [@Zazie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zazie)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/10 "2003-02-10T21:37:21Z")
$10… whaoo that was worth it. No kidding he can’t afford a gun.
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### Author:  [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/11 "2003-02-10T22:06:10Z")
most expensive banana I’ve ever heard of.
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### Author:  [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/12 "2003-02-11T16:27:56Z")
“when slapstick gags go bad” tonight at 11.
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### Author:  [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/13 "2003-02-11T16:32:31Z")
But, if convicted, do you think he’ll “appeal”?
_groan_
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### Author:  [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/14 "2003-02-11T16:35:43Z")
Nah, **Eve** , I’m just glad to see you.
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### Author:  [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/15 "2003-02-11T16:43:51Z")
I don’t think that the District Attorney will monkey around with this one.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/16 "2003-02-11T16:54:40Z")
Is robbing someone with a banana and then running off known as a banana split?
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/17 "2003-02-11T17:04:56Z")
If bananas are outlawed, only outlaws will have bananas.
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### Author:  [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/18 "2003-02-11T17:08:19Z")
E lec tri cal banannas gonna be a sudden craze …la la la la
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/19 "2003-02-11T17:18:02Z")
He probably was framed with a throw down banana.
I’ve heard this happen a bunch.
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-a-banana-in-your-pocket/154165/20 "2003-02-11T17:18:45Z")
…or are you just happy to see me?
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