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Starbucks Customer Fighting Off Masked Robber With Chair Caught On Tape
KPIX CBS San Francisco ^ | 07/24/17

Posted on 07/24/2017 6:50:25 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Incredible new video out of Fresno was shot when a masked robber used a fake gun and a knife to threaten a Starbucks clerk.

It happened on Thursday.

Fifty-eight-year-old customer Cregg Jerri grabbed a chair, walked up behind the robber and smashed it over his head.

The two started fighting, according to investigators.

Jerri was stabbed in the neck during the struggle but managed to wrestle away the knife and stab the robber several times.

“It was incredibly heroic and the way most people would think that they would respond but may not have the courage to respond,” said Chief Jerry Dyer of the Fresno Police Department.

After the fight the robber took off. He didn’t get far, though, and was later arrested.

(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: California
KEYWORDS: customer; fights; heroes; localnews; rescue; robber; searchworks; starbucks
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There is video of the incident at the link.

The guy who saved the Starbucks should get free $5 burnt coffee for life. Haha!

1 posted on 07/24/2017 6:50:25 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Wait, what? Wasn’t it a gun free zone?


2 posted on 07/24/2017 6:52:28 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Guess they need to outlaw chairs in CA.


3 posted on 07/24/2017 6:54:40 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: Enlightened1

If the employer had fought back, no doubt she would have been fired.


4 posted on 07/24/2017 6:55:04 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: Enlightened1
There is coffee and there is coffee! You'd think that there would be some sort of mechanical device that emits other material that would have stopped him in his tracks without having to suffer knife wounds.
5 posted on 07/24/2017 6:55:47 AM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: mosaicwolf

No more than 4 legs on any chair and a 10 day waiting requirement?


6 posted on 07/24/2017 6:56:44 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

I’m trying to figure from the headline whether the robber or the customer had the chair that was caught in the tape. That must have been some strong tape.


7 posted on 07/24/2017 6:59:12 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Enlightened1

Notice how the pussy snowflake Starfux employees rushed in to assist the guy? Maybe it took them too long to find their little outline cards so they could lecture him on his “white privileged” for foiling the robbery.


8 posted on 07/24/2017 7:01:37 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Enlightened1

Starbucks??? HAH

They still employing hiring preferences for refugees from Islamic states?


9 posted on 07/24/2017 7:02:16 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Message to Trump : I am not tired of winning yet. Please more winning ! Get your crap together fast!)
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To: SkyDancer

The first rule of the knife fight is that “you will be cut”.


10 posted on 07/24/2017 7:03:53 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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> No more than 4 legs on any chair and a 10 day waiting requirement? <

No one needs a chair with 4 legs. In fact, I consider such chairs to be assault chairs. Light chairs like the one below should do just fine.


11 posted on 07/24/2017 7:05:02 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Enlightened1

This was an ill advised intervention.


12 posted on 07/24/2017 7:08:18 AM PDT by onona (Stop stonewalling Judicial Watch and release the documents)
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I agree. I saw the video on TV news early this morning. The looked like it had little if any effect on the perp. No way I would have done anything unless I had a baseball bat or a full steaming pot of coffee close at hand.


13 posted on 07/24/2017 7:17:44 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Enlightened1

Imagine the horror if the guy with the chair was wearing a MAGA hat!!!


14 posted on 07/24/2017 7:35:19 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Chainmail

Not when you have a mechanical device that emits some metallic material extremely fast and totally ruins their day.


15 posted on 07/24/2017 7:39:03 AM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: rktman

He should watch more wrestling. You grab the chair by the legs and hit him with the back on the head. Then when he turns around you it him again in the face. WWE moves can help you.


16 posted on 07/24/2017 7:49:12 AM PDT by TN4Bush
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To: SkyDancer

Works for me.


17 posted on 07/24/2017 7:56:40 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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“really think about it Jimmy, if someone hit you over the head with a chair, you’d be in a coma”.
18 posted on 07/24/2017 8:04:46 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Enlightened1; Jim Robinson

Fresno. Friend of JimRob?


19 posted on 07/24/2017 8:07:33 AM PDT by null and void (This is how socialists work: Erase the past, Bankrupt the present, Steal from the future.)
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To: Enlightened1

video, so you don’t have to go to that crappy website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3cpqq4uPc0


20 posted on 07/24/2017 9:23:24 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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