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Texas smoke shop clerk pulls gun and begins firing at robber without ever putting down his cigarette
Daily Mail Online ^ | October 15, 2016 | Kalhan Rosenblatt

Posted on 10/15/2016 10:03:10 AM PDT by Teotwawki

An armed man picked the wrong store clerk to rob when he entered a Texas smoke shop last month.

In surveillance footage taken of the incident, a man enters Austin, Texas, store and immediately draws a gun.

Without missing a beat, the store clerk, who is smoking a cigarette, draws his own gun - a CZ-75 SP-01 9mm pistol - and begins firing at the robber.

The store clerk seems completely unfazed and doesn't even put down his cigarette as he fires at the assailant.

At one point while he's shooting, he even appears to try and take a drag off the cigarette.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; gun; smoke; texas
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To: Windflier

“I suppose that happens to every generation. I can recall my granddad using pet phrases that totally mystified me.”


I can still here my grandmother,way back in the 40s,telling us kids to go out and sit on the piazza.

She meant porch,of course,and I have not heard anyone use that word in that way since then.

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81 posted on 10/15/2016 6:31:53 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

I’m having a hard time recalling any of the unusual sayings my grandparents used, but one thing I heard them say over and over, was, “waste not, want not.”

When I was little, that made no sense to me, but I understood it as I got older.

My grandmother used to occasionally use the term, ne’er-do-well. I had to grow up before I figured that one out.


82 posted on 10/15/2016 6:48:02 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

Oops, “hear” in my post.

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83 posted on 10/15/2016 6:49:06 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Windflier

““waste not, want not.”


They were very wise grandparents-—they would probably be appalled at today’s throw-away society.

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84 posted on 10/15/2016 6:52:00 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

“They were very wise grandparents-—they would probably be appalled at today’s throw-away society.”

They were married in 1929. My dad came along one year later. They were a couple of youngsters just starting their life together, when the Great Depression began.

They already came from humble beginnings, but those years of hardship taught them lessons about frugality they never forgot.

My mom and dad are in their mid eighties, and are still some of the most thrifty people I’ve ever known. Dad can still squeeze a nickel so hard, it cries :-)


85 posted on 10/15/2016 7:02:09 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

Your grandparents were the same age as my parents——married in 1930,my father died in 1938,leaving 2 young kids,and times were very,very tough-——but we had a superb mother.

We wasted NOTHING-—your grandparents would have been proud.

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86 posted on 10/15/2016 7:08:47 PM PDT by Mears
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To: RegulatorCountry

Oh yes, I’m familiar. My parents spent a good part of their growing up years without electricity, running water, indoor plumbing. Until the TVA & REA, they used oil lamps, fireplaces, wood stoves, pumps/well water, ice boxes, and outhouses. Even after, it was years before my great aunt & uncle had a pump handle at the kitchen sink, and 1947 before they had indoor plumbing (created a septic tank from a cistern and built a bathhouse on top of it). I’m looking at one of the oil lamps my mother used as I type.


87 posted on 10/16/2016 12:40:49 PM PDT by nickedknack
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To: ifinnegan

“fossil word” is a fossil phrase.


88 posted on 10/16/2016 12:51:00 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Windflier

You know what’s crazy?

When I attempt to save my work, the icon I click on is a floppy disc.


89 posted on 10/17/2016 12:05:21 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: Wneighbor

Tin foil hats made of aluminum. Conspiracy theorists been doing it wrong.


90 posted on 10/18/2016 5:21:36 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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