McDonald's armed robber attacked with trays by pensioner

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_817567.html ^ | 09/09/03 | Staff Writer

[bedolido]

An armed robber has fled from a McDonald's restaurant empty-handed after a pensioner attacked him with plastic trays.

The man left the take-away in Bloomington, Illinois, after he was set upon by 71-year-old customer Donald Sacry.

Mr Sacry was having a coffee when he saw the man enter the restaurant with his hat pulled down low and a mask over his face.

He said the man produced a gun and ordered an employee to give him money. Mr Sacry said he then decided to intervene and approached the gunman whom he initially just verbally abused. "I used a lot of vulgarity. I cussed him out pretty good. I was hollering at him," he said.

As the gunman watched a cashier about to open a cash register, Mr Sacry struck. "I grabbed some trays, about three, and hit him with them," he continued. The gunman had turned around, so Mr Sacry ended up hitting him in the upper back.

Mr Sacry said the man said nothing and seemed to be surprised that an older man was hitting him with plastic trays. "He was fooling around with a bad biker," said Mr Sacry.

The force of the blow from Mr Sacry knocked the man to the floor. When he managed to scramble to his feet, he fled the restaurant by a back entrance.

A 20-year-old Bloomington man was arrested a short distance away, says the Pantagraphwebsite.

Story filed: 10:41 Tuesday 9th September 2003

[wimpycat]

"He was fooling around with a bad biker," said Mr Sacry.

So now we know what happened to the "Wild Bunch". Way to go Mr. Sacry!

[Spruce]

Donald "TraySlinger" Sacry.

[chiefqc]

It's a shame that the customer did'nt have a right to carry 44 mag.

[Telit Likitis]

I'd call him "Mr. Scary" for sure!!!

[lelio]

The force of the blow from Mr Sacry knocked the man to the floor.

The robber is never going to live down being beat down by a 71 year old man with a plastic tray.

[wimpycat]

LOL! Quick Affray McTray!

[mtbrandon49]

Yeah, he's gonna be real popular in the joint.(hehe)

[lelio]

man enter the restaurant with his hat pulled down low and a mask over his face

Note to robber: don't enter a McDonald's sporting this look:

[wimpycat]

.

[bedolido]

lol... great post!

[Constitution Day]

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[Constitution Day]

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[revtown]

Ah crap.. Now their gonna remove trays from restaurants..
Can't have weapons you know..

[ASA Vet]

The robber is never going to live down being beat down
by a 71 year old man with a plastic tray

My dad is 79,
if he'd hit the perp I doubt the perp would have gotten up.
Dad is still a powerful brute.

[spunkets]

"he initially just verbally abused."

Glad to see he escalated the situation. The PC crowd hates it when this happens.

[lelio]

Dad is still a powerful brute.

Would he of thrown in a Hot Coffee Shower for kicks? ;)

[Destructor]

"An armed robber has fled from a McDonald's restaurant empty-handed after a pensioner attacked him with plastic trays."

According to eye witness accounts, the elderly man beat the robber with the plastic tray, then held up a Big Mac, and threatened "to cram it down the robbers throat." The robber fled in terror.

[NautiNurse]

a Hot Coffee Shower

Can't have hot coffee in McD's now. It might spill onto the crotch when wedged between the thighs, you know.

[ASA Vet]

Would he of thrown in a Hot Coffee Shower for kicks? ;)

Not unless he could have it replaced for free.
He's been married to a dutch lady for almost 57 years,
she'd read him the riot act for wasting their money.