Criminal Mastermind Of The Day Dept

Let's see...the gun -- not a real gun.

The hooker -- um, got some issues there, too.

Jose Alejandro Romero -- doing his part, in the spirit of the ubiquitous (in the Hill Country) bumper sticker, to Keep Austin Weird.

Here's how the story opens:

Police have issued an arrest warrant for a man accused of injuring a gas station clerk while attempting to rob him — with a caulk gun.

The suspect fled the scene in the company of a transgender prostitute he’d picked up earlier in the evening...

HT: Dave.