Posted on 12/14/2023 4:07:34 PM PST by Libloather
This is the moment an elderly employee scared off a gang of robbers with a gun after they attempted to ransack his Bay Area store on Monday.
Albert Marcu faced down a group of would-be robbers with sledgehammers after they stormed the Estates Consignment Store in Pleasant Hill.
Surveillance video shows an apparent coordinated attempt to rob the store as a woman on the phone held the shop door open, allowing a group of men to run in.
The footage shows two masked men standing at the door threatening and holding back the security guard while three others made their way to the jewelry counters at the back of the store.
However, they were met by the heroic employee who, pointing a gun, refused to back down, sending the men scrambling back out of the door and into a car before driving away.
'I had to take a stand. Too many things happened around us, and nothing is being done,' Marcu, who has been at the store since 2007, told Kron 4.
'I feel very, very bad for this country, which is one of the best countries in the world.'
Marcu told the outlet he came to the US after escaping from communist Romania and is disappointed by politicians inability to tackle the rise in crime.
'We beg the politicians to help us small businesses and help communities all over California. It's getting out of hand,' Marcu explained.
'I'd say about 99 percent of my customers complain about crime.'
Pleasant Hill's property crime rate in November has risen by 13.5 percent since the same time last year.
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Had she shot one of them she’d be in jail tonight.
Arrested in 3...2...1...
” she “
Albert
It’s a he, not a she...and yes, he’d be in jail.
Video
Elderly man in the San Fransisco area pulls out a gun on a group of thugs who tried to rob his consignment store
https://rumble.com/v41bjkj-elderly-man-pulls-out-a-gun-on-a-group-of-thugs-who-tried-to-rob-his-store.html
I’m glad he defended his property, but still, I’ll say a prayer for his safety. Now, every thug in the Bay Area knows who he is, what the interior layout of his store looks like, what kind of merchandise he stores and the fact that usually, the store is almost deserted, except for the owner or cashier. His friendly German Shepherd dog is nice to see. Maybe the dog could at least bark a warning next time.
“Had she shot one of them she’d be in jail tonight.”
I don’t know (it was a “he,” BTW; not a “she). The perps rushed in with lethal weapons (one of which was a sledge hammer; which could easily kill an elderly man if he was struck with it). Had he shot the perp it could very well have been a justified shoot.
How dare an uppity white man resist just reparations!
That’s why the youngsters hate the baby boomers. We’re old and cranky and are tired of all the crap form the deadbeat whinyass kiddies.
form = from.
Ha.
I wonder with those “early reparations” losses called smash and grab robberies if someone has to fill out a form to show the “gave at the office” as for a charity.
Could present a police report and then be exempt from some reparations charged in fees from the government later.
And the older we get the less effective the threat of punishment becomes.
“Pleasant Valley”, California.
Forget it, Jake, it’s California.
And so old life in prison doesn’t bother them much
“His friendly German Shepherd dog is nice to see. Maybe the dog could at least bark a warning next time.”
Should get a locked door with a buzzer and camera to see who is around. Don’t look right, don’t let them in.
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