Inept robber gets his shotgun taken away

[goose]

Why we carry, and why crime doesn't pay. In Midland. So many questions unanswered. If I am the store owner, I'ma wanna know why all of my inventory was left sitting unattended for so long. Good on the customer for not allowing himself to become a witness unable to speak anymore.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas ... 598575.php

[goose]

Why we carry, and why crime doesn't pay. In Midland. So many questions unanswered. If I am the store owner, I'ma wanna know why all of my inventory was left sitting unattended for so long. Good on the customer for not allowing himself to become a witness unable to speak anymore.

edit: The customer/robber interaction begins about 2:44 in the video.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas ... 598575.php

[RossA]

"Ain't nobody here? I'm supposed to be robbin' somebody!"

[goose]

"Ain't nobody here? I'm supposed to be robbin' somebody!"

The thought that kept running through my head was that the poor little feller was probably needing a safe place to go talk, because he was completely stumped when the reality didn't match the plan. I half expected him to raise his hand and ask for help.

Somewhere there is a career criminal (possibly that he borrowed the shotgun from) shaking his head. "So let me get this straight. You went into an unmanned store, complete with ATMs and cash registers unguarded. Complete with thousands of dollars of merchandise. No one around. And instead of leaving with anything of value, you left without the shotgun you took in there. Got it."

[gthaustex]

Oops....stupid is as stupid does.



If / when the "attempted" robber is found, this will not be the story he tells inside...

[ELB]

While this (taking the bad guy's gun) is not common, it is not exactly unheard of either, and seems to happen more than the other way round. Allow me to quote myself from another thread - the part in bold is why:

Tough Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens by Clayton E. Cramer and David Burnett is also a good resource.

The data upon which it is based were collected specifically because a certain academic professor claimed that guns were never actually used in any legitimate self-defense situation. Clayton Cramer knew that was nonsense, and began collecting newspaper stories of defensive gun uses (DGU). He and David Burnett and another person whose name escapes me collected just under 5000 articles over 2003-2008 before they stopped. I contributed some stories myself. Then Cramer and Burnett wrote a white paper on it. The link above takes you to the Cato Institute, which hosts the white paper in PDF form (free download) or will sell you a bound copy.

Interesting statistic from the paper: Out of 4,668 DGU reports collected, in 338 instances a person wielding a gun was disarmed. In only eleven cases was the "good guy" disarmed (and in one of those, when the good guy' rifle was taken, he drew his handgun and shot one of his assailants). In the other 227 cases, the intended victim disarmed his or her attacker.

Although not in the dataset for that paper, here's another example of that which occurred just this week apparently: Woman kills attacker with his gun, unknowingly takes out a serial killer

[Scott B.]

Of the things I want to wrestle over, a shotgun is not one of them. Customer and wife got very lucky.

Would love to see the video of ownership's meeting with their night manager.

[ELB]

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Would love to see the video of ownership's meeting with their night manager.

Maybe he saw the guy with the shotgun coming...

[Scott B.]

If he or she was hiding somewhere calling the police, good on them. If they had time to hide like that, might have had time to lock the doors.

Can you imagine.

Customer takes shotgun from bad guy. Is pretty excited about that.
Cops roll up.
Customer standing there holding the shotgun.
Things get felony stop type exciting.
"Officer, I swear I took this from the guy and he ran off."
"Sure he did..."