Polite Thief Fighting Ethical Dilemma Holds Up Town & Country Pharmacy [Updated]

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Is it just us, or does this Rorshach blot look like the crest on the Missouri state flag?

Update, July 23: Anthony David Phillips, 39, of University City has been charged with the holdup and is being held in lieu of $50,000 bond. Phillips still insists he is a good person.

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It sounds like one of those ethical-dilemma problems that psychologists give you in order to determine some crucial truth about your personality:

On Tuesday afternoon, a man walked into the Goldsmith Pharmacy in Town and Country armed with a .22 caliber rifle and demanded morphine.

When the pharmacist told him the store didn't stock morphine, the man pointed his rifle at her and said he knew they kept it in a safe.

After he received his 22 tablets of morphine, the man apologized profusely to everyone in the pharmacy. He was only doing this for a sick friend, he said

Nonetheless, police are out looking for him and will probably arrest him when they find him.

Now the important psychological question: If you were in the man's place, what would you have done?