Posted on 10/20/2017 7:58:57 AM PDT by ETL
An IHOP waiter thwarted an attempted robbery at his San Antonio, TX, restaurant.
Elijah Arnold was opening the restaurant early Thursday morning when he heard something happening at the cash register.
“I just heard the register popping,” Arnold told ABC affiliate WFAA.
Arnold went to investigate the noise and saw someone trying to pull cash out of the register.
“I stepped out and looked and there he was pulling the register out and everything so I just took off, my instinct kicked in and I took off full speed at him,” he said.
IHOP’s surveillance footage shows Arnold, a third degree black belt, tackling the man to the ground and then hanging on to the robber’s foot as he tries to escape from the pancake house.
Arnold, who was hit in the face with crowbar during the altercation, said the robber was pleading with him during the struggle.
“He tries to start apologizing and, ‘man I’m so sorry. I know I hit you,” he told WFAA. “I know I'm trying to steal your money, but just give it to me. I need it really bad’ and everything like that.”
Though Arnold didn’t let the man get away, he was sympathetic to the robber.
“Two weeks ago, I wasn't working,” Arnold told NBC affiliate KABB. “I was homeless.”
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The Corporate Scum of IHOP will probably show him the door for his heroism.
“He probably makes $12/hour...”
On what planet??? The federal minimum wage for restaurant servers is $2.45/hr plus tips. Since he was new, it’s unlikely he has cultivated a group of regulars that keep him in tips that would get him up to making that much. My daughter was an IHOP server & server trainer in college and probably made that much but it was after getting the trainer position plus being at that location long enough to get a better shift with a group of regulars she served.
And the best day of all will be the one where he doesn’t get up anymore. Or use any more of our oxygen.
After dividing her weekly pay by hours worked, how much did your daughter make?
I’ll have to ask her as it goes back about a decade and I don’t trust my memory.
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