SAN DIEGO, CA – While some insist that adult bookstores are always a dangerous place for decent people to enter, the real risk takes place when shops posses people with interests that go beyond consensual sexual behavior. Like robbing the place while waving a gun around, for instance. Such an unsavory occurrence took place this morning at the Adult Emporium in the Kearny Mesa community of eastern San Diego.

It was shortly after midnight, barely Friday at all, when a crook entered and walked through the shop, pretending to browse when he was really casing the place out. Once he had the lay of the land comfortably in his mind, he leapt over the counter.

Once firmly on the wrong side of the retail barrier, the man pointed his firearm at the female shop clerk and demanded cash.

According to San Diego police officer Brad Ruff, the clerk promptly complied with her assailant’s demands.

Ruff reports that a witness saw the gunman drive away in a silver Ford Explorer, heading southbound. The robber is described as being dark skinned, stocking and in his 20s. At the time of the crime, he wore a blue ball cap, black fur-lined jacket with hood, black pants, white socks and black-rimmed eyeglasses.