Ain't that just like a dumb robber... brings a knife to a machette fight!
Posted on 11/15/2006 4:58:27 PM PST by badpacifist
Florida convenience store heist attempt features dueling machetes...NOVEMBER 15--In a Crocodile Dundee-like moment, a Florida convenience store clerk repelled a machete-wielding robber by pulling out her own machete from behind the store's counter, a faceoff captured by a store surveillance camera. On Tuesday, a man wearing a blue sweatshirt and baggy jeans approached the counter of the Lil' Saints store in Stuart and pulled the weapon from his pants. After he moved away from the counter for a moment, clerk Guillermina Sanchez 46, grabbed her machete from under the cash register. After a 20-second standoff (during which time the man frantically pressed keys on the register in a bid to open it), the robber left the business. Detectives believe the suspect in the November 13 incident was also behind a mid-October robbery at the store which netted him about $500.
She would have been safer with a gun. Gutsy lady, though.
Bump for a brave lady with a big knife !
"It's a machete, bit---- OoOOOOOOOooooooWWWWWWWW!"
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Excuse me while I whip this out.
Oh, I WISH we could see the look on his face when he saw that! LOL!
Dude. We have an honorable mention here. :o)
WTF is wrong with these people? Who in their right mind would risk a felony conviction, and possibly being hacked to death by a storekeeper with a machete, for a lousy $500? They have to know none of these stores keep large amounts of cash readily available.
Never bring a knife to a......machete fight.
Crooks tend to be fairly dumb, being unable to even think three or four logical steps ahead.
Excellent bump. Think about it: this attitude is what made America strong through its history.
I agree. Glad she had the machete, but a gun woulda made more sense.
Ain't that just like a dumb robber... brings a knife to a machette fight!
Could he have been a drug addict???
Not only are criminals dumb... they are cowards too.
LoL..............
Maybe, maybe not. In close quarters, a long blade may be deadlier than a handgun, depending on the relative skill of those weilding the weapons.
Still, I liked better the report from gun-controlled England of an old woman actually delivering the Crocodile Dundee line when she confronted a knife-weilding intruder in her home with a kitchen knife about twice as long as the thug's blade.
God bless her. Those hispanics sure love their machetes.
The idiot is lucky she didn't chop his hand off. Maybe she didn't want to ruin her cash register.
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