We got robbed!

[Seadevil]

No, i'm serious. We did.

I work at a local Arby's here. Not a glamorous job, but it's a paycheck. Well, today is/was my 5th day at the job. I was putting fries in the freezer in the back and a friend of mine, Mike, who i've known damn near my whole life, was up front working the register.

Well, next thing I know, I heard him yell out "HEY!" and then the sound of trays being knocked over (I found out later that Mike, who stands maybe 6 foot with platforms, jumped over this counter that comes up to my thigh) . My first reaction is 'What the hell...?' and I walk up front to see what happened. Mike is gone. Now the 'OH ****!' mindset took over, so I went out in the lobby, still didn't see him outside, so I ran outside. I slowed down when I saw our GM outside, thinking she knew what the hell happened. As soon as she sees me she yells "Go help him!"

... "OH ****!!!" x2 now. I run around the corner, thinking this guy's fighting Mike and i'm ready to whip somebody's ass. What I saw was Mike holding the guy on the ground (He's a wrestler, so he knows his fair share of grappling and holds). I saw the guy being to reach for something in his pocket with the hand that wasn't clutching the cash, so I grab his hands and pin them to his chest. Now, I am not a small man. I'm 6'3, 240 lbs. I'm putting all of my weight into the guy, so between me and Mike this guy is NOT moving. All good, right?

Now, he was already right by his car. His woman/girlfriend/whatever was in the passenger seat of the car. Once the guy realizes that he's not going ot get away from the two of us, he yells "Get the gun, babe! Shoot 'em! Get the gun!" Now Mike and I look at each other, we had no idea if this guy was serious or not. This was no joke. I couldn't let the guy go because the way we were positioned, he was on top of Mike. If I let him go, he would've gotten whatever he was reaching for in the first place and I wasn't about to let that happen because Mike would've been stuck on the ground.

By this point, the GM and the other employees had come out, so there's a good 6 people out there now. I looked at the woman in the car, to see what the hell she was doing, If she was reaching for something or what. She just shook her head and looked as surprised as all of us.

We didn't want to take any chances anyway, so Mike asked him if it was worth it. The guy said 'Yes!'. Well, Mike and another employee start yelling at the guy to drop the money. He says he'll drop it if we let him go. We tell him to drop the cash first. He does, someone scooped it up, so me and Mike let him go and get the **** away from him and the car.

The guy had a towel over his back license plate, but our GM snatched it off so we got his plate, what he looked like, what the girl looked like, and what car he was in. They caught the guy about half an hour after everything went down. I had to ID the girl since I was one of the only ones who saw her. We got all the cash back (even the dollar the guy spent on a drink, which is how he got at the cash to begin with), and none of us got hurt. The cops tolds us that they searched the car and never found a gun.

We were very lucky. If he really had a gun, i'd be in the hospital or worse right now.

I remember all of it and have to laugh at what me and Mike said afterwards.
Me: "We should've ****ed him up."
Mike: "We DID **** him up, man."
Me: "No, I mean REALLY ****ed him up."
Mike: "Oh. Yeah."

Needless to say, the rest of the day seemed pretty boring and I think Mike got a raise for the whole thing.

Heh. Not bad for my first week of work. :shinner:

[Griimace]

Bravo for you, although there's many places that would've fired you and your friend for getting involved.

I hope you made that punk cry like a you know what. :cry:

[Joe Schmoe]

Wow! That's an intense story man, glad you are okay and everything! :)

[Kinetix]

Awesome story! You shoulda puched him in the face but then maybe if she had a gun she woulda used it. I think you acted well. And the Manager said to go after him so he wouldn't get fired.

[Astartus]

Boy, you totally forgot to tell us the part where you first went to the rstrooms to put on oyur "Doctor Death" costume and how terrified this robber guy was when you told him what had happend to Doc Vaz the last time he went against you.

[Yin]

You ain't s'pose to do that. >_>;

They say it's best to give them what they want, and let them run with it. It only takes but ten minutes to apprehend them and get it back. Just glad he didn't have a gun in the car. Boy. I bet you felt like Captain America. =P

[TheImperial]

Hoooooooooly crap! That's kinda dumb on one hand, but effing awesome on the other.

Betcha really feel like a man, now?

[skyhawke]

I agree with Mike, you really should've ****ed him up. Once the word "gun" was used, it was no longer a mild struggle but,a life/death situation. Either way, kudos on keeping a clear head in that.

[Seadevil]

You ain't s'pose to do that. >_>;

I know. I can't say that if I had been up at the register, that I would've followed the guy. But, Mike had already jumped over and ran after him so I had to go help him out.

Betcha really feel like a man, now?

Why yes, I do believe my manliness gets a +2 bonus now. :p

And I thought about hitting him, I was definately in a position to. But, if I had, one of his hands would've been free and if he was reaching for something, he would've got it.

[Randomus]

I hope they don't come after you for that. The robber himself might be able to finangle some stupid bylaw crap into charging you and Mike for assault. Hopefully your manager telling you to go after him will protect you in that instance.

[Grae Knight]

mmmm...Arby's...I love the Giant Roast Beef..(I am thinking Arby's)

[Logan_D]

Wow... I don't know if I would've had the presense of mind to do what you did!

Then again, come to think of it, I did help chase down a couple of gangbangers one time who bungled a car theft at an apartment complex that was on a security patrol beat job I was doing in the South Bay area about 13 years ago.

I drove onsite and parked in the office parking spot to do my paperwork late one night and here's a couple of guys, one in one car, pushing another out of the lot. I thought it was a bit odd, and watched them as they got out on the street, trying to make up my mind whether this was strange enough to report (it was 4:00 Am, if one of them has car trouble, where are they going to take it at this time of the morning?).

They obviously saw me, and the guy in the car being pushed panicked and turned the car off into the ditch and smashed it into a pole, then leaped out and got into his buddies car, and I went after them, while radioing dispatch to call the cops.

I never intended to _catch_ them, mind you. What would I have done? I wasn't carrying a gun, after all. But I did want to get close enough to read the license plate, then back off. But I couldn't quite close with them (crappy 4 banger company pick up truck). It wasn't a long chase, but I kept up with them long enough and kept dispatch notified of where we were so that when I did break it off (they had gotten off the freeway and had started running red lights, and I decided that that I wasn't going to be responisble for killing anyone, even if there wasn't hardly anyone on the road at that time of the morning), the police didn't have any problem finding them and caught them shortly after that.

The guy who bailed also got hurt from broken glass, left blood in the first car, which matched bloodstains in the _second_ car, and needless to say, they had enough of a record and evidence enough against them that I didn't even have to be called as a witness before they got convicted. Found out later they were with one of the offshoots of the Crips.

[sheld0n]

Nice job! Both of you :)

The closest i can get to a story like that, is talking a guy out of robbing me, without using any violence. When he left, he said "take care", heh...

[thebluecanary]

Vidieo Games Causeed you to do this! Its what they have been saying all along! Video Games made you do it! =P

[Xielos]

Heaven forbid Thompson gets a hold of this thread :shinner: :P

[Solario]

See, that's why our justice system is such bull****. The fact that he might actually be able to sue over that sort of ****.


Meanhwile glad you're OK, and hey... Atleast you got a story out of it.

[Yin]

I got robbed a couple years back as well, but didn't do this. The girl was working in the front, and I was in the back doing dishes. She screams my name, he demands, we give, he runs, drops a couple pennies, and we call the police. Next day he gets caught and we get it all back.

People are just stupid. It's almost impossible to go as long as fifteen minutes after robbing a bank.

[Seadevil]

Awesome story, Logan. :)

I found out today that the security cameras were turned off all day yesterday until 10 PM, well after this whole thing went down so we don't have video evidence to use against the guy now, so i'm not sure if he'll get convicted or what.

[Emerald Sky]

Gotta share my story now :)

I was just out of college working at a Sports Authority store and our store security approached these two women who proceeded to bolt for the door since they had just tried to steal some shoes. One of them made it out of the store while the other essentially got tackled by our hunting/fishing manager. There was a third who was in the apparent get-away car, who decided it was smarter to get out and run. Yes, people are that stupid.

So there are two women running through the parking lot, being followed by one store security and another employee. Where was I? Still in the store ringing up a customer. What can I say, wasn't risking myself for a job I hated. Anyway, as they're running through the parking lot, our store manager sees them and starts chasing them in his minivan. The women ran into someone's backyard and were essentially cut off.

When they found them, they were cowering in the little playhouse that was out back. Our store manager basically held them in check because since he was driving his wife's minivan, she had some mace in the car.

It gets even better when the cops get there. They had the first woman that got tackled in the police car, and she actually managed to kick out the window after repeatedly kicking at it with her bare feet (since they took the stolen shoes off of her). The cops then dragged her out of the car, feet-first, and threw her into the second car, all the while she's screaming "I'm losing my baby, I'm losing my baby!". It was the funniest thing I had ever seen.

[Solario]

I found out today that the security cameras were turned off all day yesterday until 10 PM, well after this whole thing went down so we don't have video evidence to use against the guy now, so i'm not sure if he'll get convicted or what.


With the amount of witnesses you have, it would deeply surprise me, if he wasn't convicted.

[AfterglowNoMore]

What can I say, wasn't risking myself for a job I hated. I know exactly what you mean. I used to work at Wal-Mart. They have a policy where we aren't supposed to chase after shoplifters at that store after one of our security people got the crap kicked out of him by three guys. So anyway, I'm standing at the register in the Garden Center where I worked, ringing up a customer. The "security guard" starts to follow someone out the door and motions to me to follow him. I shake my head no. He motions again. I shake my head and mouth the words no. He motions again. And by this time, the shoplifterer had gotten away, and he had decided to strt yelling at me.

"He got away because of you!"

"Because of me?"

"Yeah!"

"I'm sorry, I thought that my badge said cashier. Yours says loss prevention. You let him go."

"If you hadn't been arguing with me..."

"It's not my fault that you're too big of a pu$$y to handle someone half your size."

By then the customer I was ringing up decided to chime in.

"He's right, that was a b!tch move."

"Thank You!"

"I'm going to let management know abou this."

"Ok, go tell them you're a pu$$y, I'm sure they already know. In fact I'd love to be in there to see their faces when you try to explain this one to them."

He got pissed off and stormed out of there. The customer just shakes his head and mutters "Pu$$y." to himself as he pays then leaves.

The security guard proceeded to follow me around watching me, to try to catch me doing something wrong for two weeks after that. What a pu$$y.

[Sebastian Kain]

What Afterglow Said...

You know I can picture that in real time..and it's still Funny As $hit. :lol:

Yea..I would have told him off too.

[ThunderMace]

Good Jorb there DD!

[sheld0n]

You know I can picture that in real time..and it's still Funny As $hit. :lol:

Yea..I would have told him off too.

Same here :)

I'd probably feel the urge to help the guard, but hey, there's a client you're serving here, right?
And logically thinking, he's likely buying more than the other guy is stealing.

[Gabriel's Fury]

I'm glad this worked out...

But if you had gotten hurt or killed this thread would have had an entirely different tone...

No amount of a company's dailly earnings is worth risking your life.

*hugs*

-Gabe