
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, June 8, 1990                   TAG: 9006080297
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: BALCH SPRINGS, TEXAS                                LENGTH: Short

TURTLE-ROBBER GETS PIZZA MAN'S DOUGH

Where were the crime-fighting, pepperoni pizza-munching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when Domino's delivery man Troy Brewer really needed them?

After all, they may have known his hard-shelled attacker.

Brewer said he was at a pay phone when he was robbed by a pair armed with a snapping turtle.

"That sucker was going to bite me," he said. "They put him right up to my face."

The toothsome turtle didn't nip the flustered pizza delivery man, but those wielding the turtle got away with his money pouch containing about $50, he said.

" `Don't move or you're gonna get bit,' " Brewer said the robbers told him.

Brewer, a college student who works in Balch Springs, filed a police complaint in Dallas because he said Tuesday night's robbery occurred just inside the city limits.

Balch Springs Assistant Police Chief B.W. Smith said it was the first robbery at turtle-point he's ever heard of.

"I suppose if he said it happened, I guess it did. Personally, I just can't see somebody holding somebody up with a turtle," he said.

Brewer said he was still shaken a day later: "It was a big, huge, ugly turtle."

by CNB