Police: Angry thief rams car into store
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BEDFORD [TX]— An irate thief rammed his car into the front doors of a gas station twice after an employee quizzed him about paying for a small jar of lip balm, police said Wednesday. The impacts were enough to crack the front door frame, police said.

No one had been arrested as of Wednesday, but police were tracking the thief using a license plate number the employee wrote down while the man was ramming the store with his car.

The theft happened about 2 a.m. Tuesday in the 2200 block of Murphy Drive. The clerk told police that a man about 6-foot-2 and weighing 200 pounds walked into the Texaco Food Mart, picked up a small jar of Carmex and started to walk out. As he reached the front door, the clerk asked him if he was going to pay for it, police said.

The man strolled out, got into a white two-door car and then drove the car into the front door, police said. He backed up and then rammed the front door a second time before driving away, police said.

The thief took off with the $1.39 Carmex and caused about $2,000 in damage.