Wait, too. It gets better. Much better.
Not only did these two rocket scientists think it was a great idea to try to rob A GUN STORE because, you know, those guys in there WON'T HAVE ANY GUNS... they also tried to ROB A GUN STORE when the CLERK WAS VERY VISIBLY ARMED.
But wait, as Dan Akroyd would say.... there's still more!
They went in to rob the place WITH AN EMPTY GUN. 'Cuz, again, you know... the guys in gun stores won't notice that, RIGHT?
The man pulled a blue .357 revolver with a 4-inch barrel from his waistband, pointed it at the clerk and said, “Give me your money!”
The clerk had practiced for just such an occasion. He was ready.
He zeroed in on the robber’s cylinder and saw it was empty as he reached for his own gun and pulled it from its holster.
So, okay, all that goes down, but there's one last huge piece of stupid on this thing because at the beginning of the hold-up, the "customer" put down 2 twenty dollar bills on the counter.Once the ARMED SALES CLERK pulled out his own gun, to thwart their robbery attempt, the two little clowns promptly high-tailed it out the door. From the article:
“His eyes got as big as two dinner plates,” the clerk said. “Before I got mine pointed at him, he ran to the door at, like, 95 mph. I’m surprised he didn’t bust the glass out of the door.”
The clerk, who had started to squeeze his trigger, relaxed his finger as the robbers fled, leaving behind the two $20 bills.
“I was going to shoot him,” the clerk said. “Everything that could have gone wrong could have, but didn’t.”
The robbers were last seen running south.
You just can't write stuff--stupid stuff and funny stuff, anyway--any better than that.Enjoy your Sunday, y'all. I'm still wiping the tears from my eyes.
Link to original story: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/02/18/2666368/would-be-robbers-end-up-losing.html
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I read a story exactly like this one a couple of years ago. The customers and the owner opened up on the perps and killed them.
A gun store, jeeze.
Ya gotta rob a gun store like Arnold in the Terminator, go in without guns and ask to look at some with the ammo.
Or, stick to liquor stores.
After speaking to a friend last evening, he said he knew of one gun store in Independence that was held up 3 different times over the years. Apparently this kind of stupidity is not as uncommon as one would think.
Or at least not as uncommon as I thought, before reading this, last Saturday.
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