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Title: Vet thwarts robbery
Post by: Badgersmilk on June 04, 2011, 01:02:23 PM

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/iraq-war-veteran-helps-thwart-bank-robbery-25431262.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fus-15749625%252Firaq-war-veteran-helps-thwart-bank-robbery-25431262.html (http://beta.news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/iraq-war-veteran-helps-thwart-bank-robbery-25431262.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fus-15749625%252Firaq-war-veteran-helps-thwart-bank-robbery-25431262.html)

Great job!  Guy does the entire Army proud!  ;)








Weren't we talking about "Setting an example" in another thread?  This is how you do it.

Title: Re: Vet thwarts robbery
Post by: Ichiban on June 04, 2011, 01:37:04 PM

He gets a 10 for balls but a 3 for brains (he did wait for the BG to leave the bank so he didn't endanger anyone else).  Taking on someone with a gun while (apparently) unarmed is a good way to ensure your widow will be proud of you.

Although, given the grainy surveillance video, the gun didn't look real.

Title: Re: Vet thwarts robbery
Post by: fightingquaker13 on June 04, 2011, 01:40:43 PM

But again, why? No one was endangered, and its someone else's insured money, and the bank will still foreclose on your house. Sorry, this ain't a Jimmy Stewart movie, let the guy walk.
FQ13

Title: Re: Vet thwarts robbery
Post by: Solus on June 04, 2011, 02:31:14 PM

Some folks just can't sit passively when wrongs are committed.

Also, that gun looked less than real, but with that type of video, I could not tell for sure....just a lack of detail.

But, the intro said the BG had what "appeared to be a big gun" and never said he did have a gun.  Perhaps the Sgt. was able to identify it as a fake gun? 

I'd bet the announcers would have made the point the gun was real had that been the case and if they were aware it was.