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Video captures Las Vegas vape shop owner stopping day-time robbery by stabbing would-be thief
Yahoo ^ | August 8, 2022 | Ryan General

Posted on 08/08/2022 1:59:47 PM PDT by grundle

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCu4G_ZkBI0

Surveillance video inside a vape shop in Las Vegas shows an owner defending himself with a knife from would-be robbers.

On Aug. 3, Johnny Nguyen, 22, was captured on film stabbing one of three juveniles who tried to rob his store, the Smokestrom Smoke Shop in the neighborhood of West Sahara in Las Vegas.

According to Nguyen, two masked individuals entered his shop while another stood by the door at around 3:25 p.m.on Aug. 3.

In the video, Nguyen can be heard asking them as they approach the counter, ”Why are you guys wearing masks like that?”

After not receiving a response, Nguyen is then heard asking them “to just leave.”

When one of the robbers then grabs the tip jar and proceeds to the door, Nguyen asks them to take the money but “leave the coins.”

The thief grabs something else from the store shelf before fleeing out the door.

The other assailant is then seen jumping over the counter, prompting Nguyen to grab a sharp object and stab him several times.

“At first I thought they were normal customers and then I realized they had like ski masks on,” Nguyen told 8 News Now. “I had to assume they had a firearm so I just wanted to make sure I could protect myself.”

Nguyen explained that while he did not see any firearm, he reacted because he “couldn’t take that chance.”

The stabbed assailant can be heard screaming, “I’m dead, I’m dead,” as he collapses to the floor.

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Once the thief was behind the counter, the owner's life was potentially at risk. The stabbing was justified.
1 posted on 08/08/2022 1:59:47 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

They’re all the same. They barge into a business to steal and threaten, and when the owner defends himself they scream like little girls...


2 posted on 08/08/2022 2:03:15 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: grundle

If the Perp isn’t room temperature, he should be required to clean his bloody mess he made in the store and then serve time.


3 posted on 08/08/2022 2:04:50 PM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: grundle

“I’m dead”.

And you’re stupid. The two go well together.


4 posted on 08/08/2022 2:05:36 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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perforated!


5 posted on 08/08/2022 2:05:37 PM PDT by Rio
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To: grundle

That dude was probably right. About being dead. Stabbed him 6-8 times!


6 posted on 08/08/2022 2:14:12 PM PDT by albie
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To: albie

No reports of his death, so he’s probably hanging on.

We are allow civilization to be deconstructed, and the new rules are going to be a lot less forgiving to the asocial young males who think that they can’t be touched.


7 posted on 08/08/2022 2:19:43 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: grundle

This clerk doing a Reddit Q&A bragging about the stabbing was kind of creepy though.


8 posted on 08/08/2022 2:22:52 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: absalom01

Also “Authorities have since arrested the other juveniles involved in the botched robbery”

White criminals aren’t usually as adept at getting away as other ethnicities.

Stabbed boy probably spilled his guts....no pun intended.


9 posted on 08/08/2022 2:23:05 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: grundle

Now he’s in trouble.


10 posted on 08/08/2022 2:24:09 PM PDT by ToxicMasculinity (At this point, what difference does it make.)
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To: grundle
Shop owner should have shut up more, after the incident was over.

Talk with your lawyer, not the cops and certainly not the media.

11 posted on 08/08/2022 2:28:46 PM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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To: grundle

Shame all he has is a knife. Is the constitution unconstitutionally infringed by domestic enemies of the USA who violate their oath of office in Las Vegas as well?


12 posted on 08/08/2022 2:35:56 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: grundle

Good technique.

Nice follow through dragging the body away from the counter to the door.


13 posted on 08/08/2022 3:23:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

In a different article about this Nguyen said he is going to look into getting a firearm. I think that is still very doable in Las Vegas.


14 posted on 08/08/2022 3:39:47 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: Trump20162020
This clerk doing a Reddit Q&A bragging about the stabbing was kind of creepy though.

Here's an archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220805214036/https://www.reddit.com/r/robbersgettingfucked/comments/wh5tq4/las_vegas_smoke_shop_robbing_owner_ama/

15 posted on 08/08/2022 4:56:49 PM PDT by grundle
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To: TigersEye

Did he drag the body to the door to avoid the bloody mess? Is there a reason he dragged it there?


16 posted on 08/09/2022 2:54:30 AM PDT by albie
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To: albie

I don’t really know.

Maybe to get him away from the cash register and products he was trying to steal. Maybe to block the door. Maybe he wanted his sorry ass as far away as he could get it.

Kind of hard for me to say.


17 posted on 08/09/2022 4:18:58 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: albie
Is there a reason he dragged it there?

Of course, so he didn't have to step around the body in the event other customers came into the store. Logical thing to do.....

18 posted on 08/09/2022 4:21:55 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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