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Police: Tree Branch-Wielding Man Robbed 7-Eleven Store In Central Islip

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(credit: Handout/Suffolk County PD)

(credit: Handout/Suffolk County PD)

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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – It may not have been a weapon of choice but rather one of convenience.

Suffolk County police say a Ronkonkoma man was arrested after trying to rob a 7-Eleven store in Central Islip Thursday night using a large tree branch.

Michael Zimmerman, 31, is accused of walking into the store around 11:30 p.m. and demanding money from the clerk.

After being denied, police said Zimmerman struck the clerk several times with the branch.

Police said Zimmerman took off on his motorcycle which was parked in the lot after the clerk fought him off but didn’t get very far.

An off-duty Nassau County police officer blocked the motorcycle after he saw Zimmerman being chased by the clerk and a small group of customers

The officer held Zimmerman until Suffolk County police arrived.

Zimmerman has been charged with robbery in the first degree.

If convicted, what is the appropriate punishment in this case? Sound off below…

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  • Blasterific

    Guess he is going up the river without an oak paddle.

  • Mike Jones

    He was just branching out and learning the robbery trade.

  • SteveJ

    Why would someone use part of a tree to commit a crime? I’m stumped.

  • SteveJ

    He wasn’t poplar enough in school.

  • This is tree, son!

    Does this genius work for ACORN?

  • Bob

    The guy sounds like a quite the sappling!

  • Bfife

    It was first detree robbery.

  • lcs

    I guess he was going out on a limb.

    • Paco

      No…it’s a stick up.

  • cheesehead

    His bark was worse than his bike!

  • Dale

    OMG!! They should stick it to him!

  • Mark

    Ban all Hardwood trees…

  • kes stress

    Looks like a shady character to me.

  • Richard

    If convicted, what is the appropriate punishment in this case? Have his limbs cut off!

  • Ken Tyler

    He was asked to leaf the store.

  • joe

    If only there where tougher tree branch possession laws. I wanna know where he bought that tree branch and why didn’t they do a proper background check.

    • Ken Tyler

      Better ban all trees!! That would be the Liberal answer.

  • cc

    what kind of tree?

  • Longe

    A severe caning sounds in order.

  • HannMo

    What an idiot, he should have been robbing a BRANCH BANK!

  • Igloo Boo

    He was just trying to do his branch banking … getting back to his roots.

  • John Cowan

    Meth is a hell of a drug.

  • Bob

    Neuter him for starters.

  • Joe Blow

    Leave him alone? You’ve got to be barking up the wrong tree. Stem this story and branch out to other topics and blossom out to a new day, Oak-kay?

    • heartpursuer

      Almost there. How about “leaf him alone”? And really, what kind of a sap commits this sort of crime? Okay, I’ll bud out now.

  • bday55

    you know times are bad when you gotta rob someone with a tree branch.

    • EvilBuddyP

      Nuts! We need to get to the root of this tree crime problem and nip it in the bud. NIP IT, before this blight branhes out into the non criIminal orchard

    • Flowbee Jim

      Death by hanging.

    • mateo

      this is a “stick” up lolol

  • Rob

    what a jack ass, beat him with the branch he rode in on

  • thor’s hammer

    somewhere a village isn’t missing its idiot.

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