Stuff to Blog About and More: Theives in Thongs

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In this image rendered from video and provided by Arvada police two men are seen inside a gas station in Arvada, Colo. on May 16, 2008. Arvada Police are looking for the two men they say covered their faces with women's thongs to rob a convenience store. Police say the men were unarmed when demanded money from a female clerk and left with an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes. (AP Photo/Arvada police via The Denver Post)

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Police in the Colorado town of Arvada are searching for two robbers whose masks were women's thong underwear. It is unclear at this time about the source(s) of the underwear.

A surveillance video released this week by police in Arvada, Colo., shows the two unarmed men inside the convenience store. They stole an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes in the robbery May 16.

One man wore a green thong and the other wore blue. Each thong barely covered the man's nose, mouth and chin and left the rest of his face exposed. One also wore a pink backpack in which he stuffed the stolen items.

Were they really men? Did the thongs belong to them? Would you have given them the money?

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