Illumination

When you hear the stickup line, "Hand me over your money or I'll light you up like a Christmas tree," you normally expect the perpetrator to be packing something a bit stronger than a fluorescent light bulb.

The offender, who's been described as chubby, walked into the Shell service station at Breakfast Creek in Brisbane's north about 4.45am (AEST) today and demanded money, police said.

He used the fluorescent light tube to threaten a female worker, before fleeing the scene on foot with a sum of cash.

So wait...they gave it to him? All the more reason we need more light bulb control laws.