Credit: Levi Hastings

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Levi Hastings

Have a Heart Greenwood is a recreational and medical marijuana store in a high-visibility location on the corner of a busy intersection, right across from a bustling Fred Meyer. It’s in a distinctive building on Northwest 85th Street—a former all-ages club that happened to be painted with a very pot-shop-appropriate green-and-white checkerboard pattern. But none of that prevented it from being the target of a robbery on Sunday, August 7.

Everything was operating as normal that night, except that the store was short its usual security guard. According to owner Ryan Kunkel, the guard called in that morning and said he couldn’t make it to work, due to a party on a boat with some very compelling women. Informed he would lose his job, Kunkel’s employee replied, according to Kunkel, “Boss, I’m young, I can find another job. But I can never go on a boat with girls like this again.”

As bad luck would have it, the store got robbed that night.