Police in suburban Pittsburgh say Harvey called Kentucky Fried Chicken and told them he was a police officer. He said he had "special intelligence" that there was going to be a robbery at KFC and employees should be cooperative "so nobody gets hurt."

Harvey, the phony cop, tells KFC that police will have the store surrounded and a police SWAT team will close in during the actual robbery.

The KFC manager is convinced he is talking to a real-live cop, and is "glad to cooperate with the law." But in this case, Harvey is actually an "outlaw."

Hours later, right on schedule, Harvey marches into the KFC, produces a gun and robs the place. Employees are completely cooperative — after all the cops have the place surrounded — don’t they? What can possibly go wrong?

As it turns out, plenty goes wrong. As we told you, Harvey is no cop, he’s a serial bandit who’s held up at least ten fast food stores in recent months.

However, this time the cops get lucky. The KFC cameras are rolling and they’re loaded with fresh video tape. Harvey is captured on tape from all angles. The pictures are good enough to pass around to other stores that were robbed. The victims all agree — "that’s him, that’s the guy that robbed us."

The tape gets plenty of air-time on Crime Stoppers and the local television stations. As you’d expect, somebody eventually drops a dime (today it’s a quarter) on Crime Stoppers and within hours the cops have Harvey in jail.

The victims pick Harvey out of a lineup. Cops even show the tape to Harvey’s mother and his son. They both identify Harvey as their loved one.

Open and shut case — right?

Wrong! The trial ends with a hung jury. Apparently the jury isn’t 100 percent certain that Harvey did the deed. Funny thing, though — during the four months Harvey was in jail, awaiting trial, there were no more robberies at KFCs.