Grandma's House

If the urge strikes to rob a convenience store, do not try it in Bismarck, North Dakota. You could get seriously injured.

Crystal Senger stopped at a convenience store to buy pop and cigarettes, and she saw the clerk being choked in a robbery attempt. She ran to call for help. Then she started throwing bananas.

"I was seven-for-seven," Senger said in a telephone interview Thursday. "They were green bananas — not the ripe mushy ones — so they hurt."

Senger said the suspect, who police said was intoxicated, was stunned from getting hit by the flying fruit.

This woman was seriously lucky, considering the description of the robber:

Police said the suspect, who was not identified because of his age, stood more than 6 feet tall, and weighed about 300 pounds.

"He threw me around like I was nothing," said store clerk Ed Bingham, "and I weigh 220 pounds." Bingham said the suspect kicked and punched him for what "felt like forever."

On the other hand, maybe he was the lucky one:

Senger said the basket of bananas was the closest thing she could find. "If there would have been cans of soup on the counter, I would have thrown those at him," she said.