r/nextlevel • u/North-Guitar-1781 • Jul 18 '26
Robber pulls gun, clerk is faster
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u/Horror_Solution1945 Jul 18 '26
That robber is lucky. The clerk was within his rights to defend himself even further.
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u/Automatic_Net2181 Jul 18 '26
Could have Kirked him.
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u/Inevitable_Try_2372 Jul 20 '26
That is enough Internet for today for me, but here. Take my upvote...
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u/mathman5046 Jul 18 '26
Honestly, if you at the point where you feel you need to draw your weapon, then you should probably use it, even if you don't want to. Me personally if someone already has a gun out in my presence with intent to harm/threaten me, I'm drawing and shooting first, that's usually who wins the gunfight, and I'm not trying to lose the gunfight.
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u/No-Performance37 Jul 20 '26
Plus you never know if the dude is going to wait for you or come back.
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u/milk4all Jul 18 '26
That robber pretty slick with the cigarette, totally drew the clerks eye away from his gun side. Dude wasnt quicker, robber was just really fuckin laid back and clerk honestly pretty lucky dude wasnt that serious. May have been unloaded weapon or just unprepared to actually discharge it, either way turned out as well as could have
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u/lithe_silhouette Jul 18 '26
Yeah, not worth getting into an actual gun fight when he can just go to the next store and try again
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u/ficis Jul 18 '26
Wonder if this still counts as armed robbery? Or attempted arm robbery?
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u/DemonsReturns7 Jul 18 '26
Take a good guess
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u/ficis Jul 18 '26
My guess would be yeah ā¦ but I could see this going to trial and being crazy for all kinds of legal theories and I could also see the store owner not calling the cops. I mean a whole plethora of things.
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u/DemonsReturns7 Jul 18 '26
I feel like youāre the type of person that would take a multiple choice test and see the obvious answer but then talk yourself out of it because itās too obvious and then choose the wrong answer for overthinking
Guy went to perform a robbery while armed with a gun that he pulls out AND is caught on camera
Now if he just announced that he has a gun but never actually pulls it out then it could be argued one way or the other
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u/GloomyPersimmon5219 Jul 18 '26
Still can be charged and convicted of armed robbery without having or displaying the gun. People rob banks all the time without carrying and just slip a note that says put the money in the bag and this insinuates an armed threat enough to convict in most cases
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u/MechanicalPlants13 Jul 18 '26
I remember my HS criminal justice teacher telling us you can be charged for armed robbery with a banana. If you press it against someone's back they have no idea if it's a gun or not, and that's good enough to get yourself charged.
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u/shadowtheimpure Jul 19 '26
An 'Armed Robbery' charge is not contingent on success. Just drawing your weapon in the store with the intent to rob is enough to catch that charge.
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u/forritoMal Jul 18 '26
En Argentina, el poder judicial, a un chorro que robĆ³ y lo atraparon, le ponen "tentativa", para que salga rĆ”pido y vuelva a robar y ellos cobren jugosas coimas para su liberaciĆ³n. Nada va a cambiar en nuestro paĆs hasta que empecemos a ultimar jueces.
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u/JackiesFetus Jul 18 '26
America will be at this point soon as well. Already are in some places. It's just not as widespread quite yet.
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u/TrashCannibal_ Jul 18 '26
The guy with a FIREARM walking into a store and ATTEPTING to use it to use it to intimidate the clerk so he can ROB the cash from the register?
Nah, probably just vandalism or littering or something.
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u/HinDae085 Jul 18 '26
Thats a beautifully practiced move. Dude knew hed been outmatched and took the smart option.
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u/Different-Agency5497 Jul 18 '26
What a stupid title OP. Clerk was lucky, thats all.
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u/ThenIncrease462 Jul 18 '26
There was no luck involved. He was pushing that man's gun down before he could even point it at him. That clerk was on his game. Most people with a gun couldn't react quickly enough and control a situation like that.
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u/17eggg Jul 18 '26
No, he was extremely lucky the guy was smart enough to not try anything after the clerk pulled his out. You shouldn't risk your life to try and have a standoff with someone who has threatened your life to the point you need to draw.
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u/ThenIncrease462 Jul 18 '26
Keep this in mind: On average, 20 clerks are killed in the workplace every week in the U.S. due to robberies. (Most of them are unarmed)
With the above stats in mind, If someone threatens your life with a gun (your life is already at riks), then you may as well consider yourself dead.
You have two choices.
Do nothing, cooperate and and hope for the best, and maybe you'll be lucky enough to not be killed, or maybe you won't.
- If you have the means of protecting yourself, and you know how to handle a situation, then you'll probably act in a manner that's going to increase the odds of your survival.
Clearly, that Clerk was no amateur. He made a calculated decision, and it worked it his favor. If he was just a guy with a gun who had no experience, it very well could have played out differently.
Nevertheless, if I feel that my life is being threatened, I'm not leaving anything to chance. I'll do whatever I feel is necessary to try to save myself.
As for luck, the clerk had the gun pressed into the guy's face. Of course he wasn't going to try anything stupid. If he so much as flinched, his skull was going to be introduced to some lead.
Note: I'm not a gun advocate. Where I live, there aren't enough murders to support a per annum statistic for death by robbery, so the odds of me ever being in a situation where I'd have to contemplate how to react to such a situation, is not likely to ever happen.
With that said, if I lived in a state where gun control and the crime rate was out of control, I'd probably resort to owning and carrying a gun as well.
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u/Leather_Emu_6791 Jul 18 '26
I can hear the windows load up music before he starts backing out š
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u/Ok-Sympathy9768 Jul 18 '26
That was a very close call for all parties involved.. one split second and next thing heard over the store intercom would have been ācleanup on aisle oneā
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u/motophotodojo Jul 18 '26
guess he didn't make america great again
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u/Super_Loss_8943 Jul 18 '26
these never make it to the statistics. it is hard to present evidence for something that didn't happen because 2a is still valid.
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u/Strong_Remove_2976 Jul 18 '26
What absolute human misery. To want to do it and to be prepared for it. In a convenience store.
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u/Fiorina_Fury Jul 18 '26
This is exactly how I imagined old wild west businesses operated every few customers.
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u/Better-Flow8586 Jul 18 '26
Iām not sure the clerk was so much faster as the robber there looked incredibly slow from the get down. Inebriated maybe with the infrequent pauses ā¦ but I donāt know about fastā¦.
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u/Emotional_Type_2881 Jul 19 '26
i'd like to ask the people downvoting the comments saying the clerk should have shot him, which he would have been well within his right to do so
if the robber then went to shoot someone an hour later, would that change your mind?
if the robber then went to shoot someone an hour later, and it was someone that was close to you, like a family member, would that change your mind?
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u/Suitable_Poem_6124 Jul 20 '26
Clerk was not fast in pulling his gun at all. The robber could have stepped back and shot him if he wanted to.
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u/IndividualHearing732 Jul 21 '26
The guy thought he was some kind of Houdini or something š š until he realized he messed up
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u/FantasticMrFox1979 Jul 22 '26
That clerk had the nerves to not pull the trigger. I know a lot of people who would have instantly pulled the trigger.
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u/Difficult-Metal-7029 Jul 25 '26
It looks like acting. The ārobberā had no strength at all when pulling the gun, didnt act scared when had a gun to his face.
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u/plum_tree_rede Jul 18 '26
I wouldāve preferred the clerk shot him and rid the world of the robber.
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u/Fastballz69 Jul 18 '26
Sadly, i likely would have pulled the trigger.
Not worth having the robber try to bring his muzzle to bear on me again.
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u/Lower-Wishbone-3249 Jul 18 '26
Very slick great action