Posted on 02/17/2024 8:12:35 PM PST by Red Badger
When a robber came to 70-year old Naif Qatamin's convenience store in Tacoma, Washington, wielding a knife, Qatamin just laughed.
Qatamin said,
I don't think so, buddy!
And, in a classic Crocodile Dundee move, pulled his machete out from behind the counter.
The dude's name is literally Naif (pronounced like "knife" but with an Australian accent), what did the kid think was going to happen?
Anyway, Qatamin's wife ran between the would-be robber and her husband to save the thief (which seems like a stupid move all things considered).
Qatamin laughed again.
"I just want to scare him," Qatamin said. "I don't want to hurt him."
He had never even used the machete before.
"It's been here for years," he said. "First time I ever touched it. I had to. I had no choice."
Luckily, the robber decided to bolt rather than kill the old woman.
Police later picked up the robber and released him shortly thereafter. It is Washington we‘re talking about after all.
However, the robber apparently then returned to Qatamin's store and tried to rob him again, this time threatening to kill him.
Qatamin once again apprehended the thief, and his son's friends held the two-time failed robber until the police arrived without any interference from his wife.
The robber was booked on suspicion of robbery and felony harassment.
The interview with Qatamin on the local news is just great. You can watch it below:
VIDEO AT LINK.................
Nobody will die before his day, you know? Nobody will die before his day. If it's today it will come, no matter what. But if it's not today, you'll live hahahaha!
I love this guy!
Cool, he went full Crocodile Dundee.
There are no words.
There was a sandwich shop in my city where this happened as well. A robber entered and wanted to rob the place. The woman’s response was to chop her lettuce harder with her large knife.
The thief got the message left.
Love that story! I don’t know what his wife was thinking, though.
“There are no words.”
Kind of narrows down the species involved, doesn’t it?
Excellent!
Replace that machete old man, with a mare's leg Chiappa 12 loaded with 00 Buck.
Next time someone pulls a knife on you Naif, touch it off in his general direction.
I agree, it is a great story. I think the wife did that because she knows how laws here tend to blame & charge the victims and she didn’t want her husband locked up.
LOVE that graphic! How clever. Did you make it?
“mare’s leg”
I haven’t heard that since Steve McQueen in “Wanted: Dead or Alive.”
How appropriate here, too!
No, the Geniuses at The Bee did!......................
Wow, cigs are expensive these days!
Yep! 25 Cents for the product, the rest is taxes..................
It is clever. However, it is poorly executed. In this era of AI generated photos, they could have done much better.
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I remember ordering cartons from an Indian Reservation in NY that included shipping. Glad I quit smoking years ago.
His wife wasn’t thinking.
Acting on pure emotion. Could have been easily cut and killed.
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