Sometimes Your Best Isn't Good Enough

The clerk at a Wilkes convenience store tried his best to get the tag number of a car that was speeding off without paying for gas, but apparently his best wasn't good enough. Sheriff deputies took the drive-off report form Neighbors on Highway 268 in Elkin Saturday afternoon. Someone driving a white Toyota Celeca stopped at the station, pumped a few gallons of gas, about 8-dollars worth, and left without paying. The clerk got a partial description of the driver, a white male who appeared to be about 50, and a tag number for the car. But when deputies ran the tag number, it came back to a different type of car registered several counties away -- to far for it to have made sense to pump less than four gallons of gas. The case remains open.