Posted on 08/23/2006 1:48:14 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel
A man who had just been released from jail was sent right back Monday after police say he picked the wrong store to attempt a robbery.
The 30-year-old man was in line at a 7-11, 2175 E. 9400 South, just before 8 p.m. When he got to the counter he asked the female clerk for a for a carton of cigarettes, said Sandy Police Sgt. Victor Quezada. But after he received them he walked out without paying.
The clerk told another female clerk who followed him outside the doors and told him to stop.
Instead, the man turned around and punched the clerk in the face, Quezada said.
James Sjostrom was standing in line right behind the man who took the cigarettes and saw the entire thing unfold.
"He just turned and clocked her," Sjolstrom said. "He pounded her face. It was pretty vicious."
That's when Sjostrom went after the man who assaulted the store clerk.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
Why wait? Are you on Mountain Time or something??
:)
Good Job Marine.
Discipline Marine, discipline. Approximately 16 minutes to go.
Pop! Ahhhhhh! It took time to go upstairs to the frig and return so I am behind schedule. So much for discipline.
Competition is a great thing, and it does more to unite us than to devide us. I am a Soldier not currently serving, and to all the Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen both serving or not, thank you all!!
LOL!
LOL!
That clerk was very lucky that this former Marine came to her rescue!
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As he went outside, Sjostrom said he saw the man standing over the clerk, who was kneeling over on the ground, as if he were going to punch her again. When the man saw Sjostrom coming at him, he took a swing at him, too.
But the attacker quickly found out he was no match for the bulky Sjostrom.
Sjostrom is a former Marine who taught hand-to-hand combat and currently teaches a course on Russian kettlebells, or the martial art of strength training, at the Sports Mall in Murray.
"I grabbed him, threw him on the ground, put his hands behind his back, sat on him and waited for the cops to come," Sjostrom said.
In just a matter of a few seconds Sjostrom had the man pinned. When the man realized he had no chance, Sjostrom said he became "pretty quiet."
"Anybody would have done the same thing," he said. "Another guy in the store said he was in the Army and asked if I needed any help."
With a grin, Sjostrom replied to the man, "The Marines got here first."
"Another guy in the store said he was in the Army and asked if I needed any help."
With a grin, Sjostrom replied to the man, "The Marines got here first."
and it's been that way for 230 years.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Well now -- I'll acknowledge that the ONLY way I could mount up for another campaign and "serve again" with my tired old "wheels", would require that my AO be no further from home than the nearest high ground or water crossing.
In my case -- I'll stick with "Former Marine"..
I'd just get in the young guns way...
My 65 convertible's license plate frame still brags "Once a Marine, Always a Marine" -- but there is a lot of poetic license or false advertising in that statement, where us older farts are involved.
Semper Fi
A Marine and Sjostrom bump!
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