Virginia police have already tracked down one of these melon-wielding criminals but the other man is still at large.
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These two melon heads were caught shoplifting from a Sheetz store in Louisa in early May. And while by not wearing watermelons on their heads in the first place maybe they wouldn't have attracted so much attention.
However, the masks did apparently do a rather good job at hiding the identities of the men as the police turned to the public in hopes of identifying the two. The department wrote:
On May 6, 2020, at 2135 hours, two subjects arrived at the Sheetz in a LIFTED 2006 Black Toyota Tacoma wearing hollowed-out watermelon rinds with holes cut out for the eyes into the store where they proceeded to commit a larceny.
Louisa Police Chief Tom Leary have so far declared a man named Justin Rogers, 20, has been taken into custody and charged with misdemeanour larceny of alcohol, misdemeanour possession of alcohol by an underage person, and a felony prohibition of wearing a maskin public.
While being drunk was probably reason enough to come up with the idea of watermelon masks, Sheetz customers were both confused and amused by the idea. One customer said:
But it wasn’t super shocking being out here in Louisa, we’ve always had some crazy new stories going around. I definitely give them some points for ingenuity.
Another customer, Candice Wendt stated:
I think it’s ridiculous. Innovative but ridiculous. The amount of work that you have to do to actually hollow-out a watermelon to stick it on your head, I think, is kind of crazy. Why? Why would they do that? It’s so stupid.
It is unclear what the young men had taken from the gas station but the boys must have left their banana guns in the car as it looks like there were no weapons involved.
