Bandit told to bug off, gets sprayed, too, by Pa. store clerk

BERLIN, Pa. -- A western Pennsylvania convenience store clerk got a would-be robber to bug off by spraying the suspect with a can of insecticide.

State police say a masked woman entered the CSI Coalfield Mini Market in Berlin Sunday night.

That's when store clerk Annabelle Miller tells WJAC-TV she took matters into her own hands.

Miller says she refused to give the woman money and waited for her to leave. When she began to retreat, Miller sprayed the aspirational bandit in the face as the intruder left the store.

The encounter was caught on the store's surveillance system.

Miller says she's glad she confronted the would-be thief, saying, "I just got mad. I've got better things to do with my night than that."