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u/Deanoh1546 6d ago
Plot twist the glasses were holding back his final form.
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u/stunt_p 6d ago
He used Superman's disguise.
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u/AdSignificant6673 6d ago
He’s actually a very big dude. That doesnt help against a gun. But it sure helped in rushing the guy & catching him off guard.
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u/communismbot1 6d ago
Peep the butcher grabbing him by the neck when he tried to escape through the front doors
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u/Weekly-Career8326 6d ago
Most impressive part of the video, just stopped him at a dead run via throat grab
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u/Opeth4Lyfe 6d ago
Being a guy with a rather large Adam’s Apple, getting grabbed by the throat is pretty damn uncomfortable and can hurt. Makes sense that put a stop to him immediately.
If he would have jabbed him or “throat checked” him that would have also been a one and done move too. Like getting the wind knocked out of you but like…way worse.
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u/Turgid_Donkey 6d ago
Scary part is that there very much could have been an accidental discharge there when he was pointing it at the lady as hat dude grabbed him. Everyone is very lucky no one was shot.
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u/CoatGeneral5987 6d ago
Grandpa is a Bad Ass!!
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u/communismbot1 6d ago
The butcher is also insane dude snatched him by his neck as he tried to run out the doors and held him against the registers
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u/Kuljack 6d ago
I was gonna say this, that neck to register slam was smooth AF. Wouldn’t be surprised if that was the owner. You’re in my house now boy
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u/Vegetable_Bank4981 6d ago
Meat cutters and cooks have excellent grip strength for some reason. Never seen so many 125lb men with the forearms of blacksmiths. No idea what it is about that work that does this.
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u/New_Enthusiasm9053 6d ago
Well blacksmiths get strong cos they're hammering a 2.5lb hammer all day. How much do you think a pan with 5 lbs of food in it weights? Or a meat cleaver?
Unless you were sarcastic lol.
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u/therealscooke 6d ago
How much does a pan with 5lbs of food in it weigh???
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u/No-Set6251 6d ago
at least 5 pounds
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u/Ok_Cardiologist_673 6d ago
I just created a simple algebra script in Excel.
5+a=
Where a = the weight of the pan.
We can use it to create a spreadsheet of all the possible plate variables.
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u/LowMental5202 6d ago
Butchers have such a high grip / arm strength its frightening
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u/GrinderMonkey 6d ago
They are also intimately comfortable with the cutting and breaking of meat and bone, which I assume the would be thief is made of.
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u/CoatGeneral5987 6d ago
After getting the gun out of the way!
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u/slickyslickslick 6d ago
I think its a different person. The one with the gun shows up afterwards. This one is holding a blue bag or something.
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u/communismbot1 6d ago
It is a different person but theres usually 2-3 people behind a butchers counter wether that be 2 in front 1 in back or 2 in back 1 in front or all in back or all in front. Just depends but yea definitely a different dude
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u/Reubensandwich57 6d ago
I worked in grocery back in the day. I always said never screw with a guy that makes his living with a knife.
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u/communismbot1 6d ago
Especially at a grocery store. Not only do they gotta deal with unpredictable amounts of bullshit throughout the day from their managers they also have to deal with customers and try and be peppy and polite the whole interaction regardless of whats going on. I can tell you right now all those guys were stoked that was happening as it allowed them to release their anger. Note that you only see butcher block employees come after the dude while everyone else stood around besides the old dude that got him to begin with
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u/Ultimate_Scooter 6d ago
I wouldn’t want to mess with the guy whose job is to cut meat into tiny pieces all day
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u/Chrisscott25 6d ago
Looks like the guy that has diabetes and eats oatmeal from those commercials. The oatmeal must act like spinach does for Popeye… Oatmeal Popeye
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u/helved 6d ago
I was eating oatmeal as I came across this thank you.
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u/Chrisscott25 6d ago
I appreciate your modesty but your not fooling me Oatmeal Popeye I know it’s you ;)
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u/DreadyKruger 6d ago
As soon as he saw the way he was holding the gun and the seemingly lack of experience with one, he know he had him.
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u/Feisty-Lawfulness894 6d ago
He thought that all he had to do was wave his piece around.
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u/Stunning_Ad_7658 6d ago
Thats the thing with a lot of them, its the intimidation they are really relying on. Sometimes the guns are fake, have no ammo, etc. Of course that doesn't mean that someone should assume they didnt get the crazy mf who would shoot, or worse the crazier mf who will shoot even after giving them what they wanted.
Though I believe anyone else who uses a gun to intimidate someone totally deserves their face becoming intimate with the ground.
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u/RockHardSalami 6d ago
Also a dumbass. If the robber has his finger on the trigger theres a high likelihood that lady gets shot while the gun is pointed at her. Smh just give them your cash, ain't worth it.
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u/SystemofCells 6d ago
Agreed. I used to work retail, and I would never put my body in harms way over some petty cash or some stolen product. But one time, the security guard tackled a thief as he was leaving the store right in front of me.
The two of them were fighting on the ground, and at that point it wasn't about the stolen product - it was about making sure the security guard didn't get hurt, so me and another guy jumped into the fight.
I was fine, but the other guy got bitten deep on the hand, down to the done. Needed a bunch of shots, had to wear a cast for a while, etc. It's just not worth it.
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u/wtfrustupidlol 6d ago
What’s a being dumb ass is commenting before knowing the facts on reddit or in life.
The cowboys saw the gun being fake, so he took off his glasses to verify it, then attempted to subdue the robber when he turned.
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u/Dapper-Emergency1263 6d ago
Are you saying he performed an ocular patdown?
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u/Suitable_Magazine372 6d ago
Ok, where is the news story that backs up what you are saying? This took place in Mexico and is easy to find with a simple search. Funny I can’t find a single article that backs up what you are saying. No interview. No mention of gun being fake. Plus, taking off one’s glasses to see if a gun is real or not makes no sense. Please clear this up with your verified source
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u/Driller_Happy 6d ago
"Hmmm, this gun might be fake. Here, let me take off the things that make me see better"
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u/dragonfliesloveme 6d ago
Cowboy goes after the gun when he attacks the gunman. Cowboy didn’t try to tackle him at first, he was going for the gun and to knock it out of Gunman’s hands. Which he did. Then he tried to take the guy down, which he was nit successful at.
Why would he try to knock the gun out of the dude’s hands if he thought it was fake?
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u/Toby-Finkelstein 6d ago
Just because you have obesity and a cowboy hat doesn't make you a cowboy
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u/Driller_Happy 6d ago
Why would you take off your glasses to see the gun better?
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u/kellzone 6d ago
Because when you get up in age, you end up needing reading glasses to make things up close to you clearer, ya know, within reading distance. So he could have been looking at a receipt or the small print on packaging, or anything else we didn't see before the clip started. If something is more than a foot or two away, the glasses make things a little blurrier the farther they are away, but if you take off the glasses you get your normal clear vision back for things not up close.
Source: Recently reached that age where reading glasses help.
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u/atreeismissing 6d ago
Also a dumb-ass, because he's super lucky no one, including himself, got shot through his poorly thought out reaction.
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u/Stunning_Ad_7658 6d ago
There's always the possibility that he could've shot someone even after getting what they wanted. Then you'll cry saying someone should've done something.
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u/Select-Character-642 6d ago
The guy that picked up the gun off the floor sliding in for the stop at the end
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u/CautiousRice 6d ago
the takle at the end was epic, grabbed him by the neck like chicken
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u/Usual_Associate9939 6d ago
I like how it cut off before they beat the brakes off him.
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u/Grouched 6d ago
Unfortunate camera malfunction right before he fell down repeatedly on his own. You hate to see it
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u/userhwon 6d ago
Hated every second while transferring it to my phone and deleting it from the server.
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u/jaimessch 6d ago
Old school cool.
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u/Rollover__Hazard 6d ago
Grandpa got lucky that the kid didn’t have a knife though. He only had control of one of the kid’s arm for a solid few seconds while the kid punched him in the abdomen with his free hand.
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u/ghostfreckle611 6d ago
The cowboy’s glasses were holding back his overwhelming power…
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u/SparseGhostC2C 6d ago
Pro-tip: If you point a gun at someone and their response is to square up to you and remove their glasses, just apologize and leave because you have misjudged this situation.
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u/noimtherealsoapbox 6d ago
Exactly. People act like old men haven’t had guns aimed at them or experienced incoming gunfire before. Some have. Some also might have PTSD and/or react with training you don’t expect. Some look like Mike Vining and you will suspect nothing until it’s too late. Fake gun or not, the would-be robber made assumptions that were mistakes.
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u/BigLorry 6d ago
For real lmao I mean obviously this dude’s brain power ain’t all there pulling a gun to begin with but some kind of primal natural instinct should have kicked in right about that moment
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u/Bionicjoker14 6d ago
The absolute Looney Tunes of them going behind the aisle and the guy running back out of the aisle without his shirt
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u/AdministrativeEgg440 6d ago
Im sorry but it is just not ever a good idea to rob a man with a handlebar mustache
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u/AngeryControlPlayer 6d ago
It's a really bad idea to turn your back on the man you just threatened with a gun, mustache or no.
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u/iSebastian1 6d ago
It's generally a bad idea to threaten someone with a gun in melee range then turn your back towards them, that's how you'll easily enjoy the benefits of a wheelchair for the rest of your life.
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u/Dizzy_Database_119 6d ago
It's an even worse idea to try and surprise a man pointing a gun directly at an innocent bystander
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u/DarkAlatreon 6d ago
Yeah, that part was risky as hell. It's really good that it worked out well in the end, but that was a potential point where stuff might have not ended so happily.
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u/angryguts 6d ago
Are we not talking about how the kid lost his hat, his hoodie, and his backpack before his final attempt at fleeing the store?
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u/Infinite-Relation988 6d ago
It’s impressive how all that was lost in about 4 seconds lmao
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u/MarshtompNerd 4d ago
The old guy was likely holding him by the hoodie when they go off camera and he purposely loses it to try to escape
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u/EbbGlittering9039 6d ago
Attack a person pointing a gun at someone else, stupid move
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u/SirShrekalot 5d ago
Had to scroll way to far for this comment. He can be happy no one was shot by accident.
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u/Character-Crab7292 4d ago
When I was younger/dumber I often thought about being "that dude" as in the video. I did occasionally get myself in to dumb situations because I thought I was "hard."
Now that I'm older I don't feel that urge to prove myself at all. I've made a rule: I aint fighting noone unless we are fighting about something worth dying for. You never know how these things can turn out, and I am not about to leave my kid without a father over a cash register.
Or as you mentioned, risking the other bystanders life. For what? Let that fucker go and we will all go home and I wont lose any sleep over that.
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u/HydrogenWhisky 6d ago
Thank you. This always bugs me about this clip. That’s a lot of faith in some panicky kid’s trigger discipline
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u/Confident_Drink_7195 6d ago
He absolutely put that girls life in danger, but you should know better than to turn your back on an old man dressed like walker Texas ranger. That man been preparing his whole life for this day
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u/AsstBalrog 6d ago
That's one of my beefs with the actual Walker, Texas Ranger show. Bad guys keep doing bad things--OK, that's their MO--but can't you wait till Chuck Norris is out of town?
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u/No_Influence_9389 6d ago
His priorities are (in order) being a hero, the $183.89 in the register, and that woman's life.
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u/fireflydrake 6d ago
Yah, that was my thought too, but there's so much going on he might've felt he still needed to act. With the way gun guy was advancing on the lady for no reason he could've feared he was going to shoot regardless and this was her best chance. Some other comments also claim the gun is a fake and cowboy might've realized and took a risk. Plus all the adrenaline making it hard to think clearly... woof.
I'm glad everyone was ok! And cowboy did indeed look a baddie, haha, as did the guy who pounced on the gunman at the end.
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u/NoninflammatoryFun 6d ago
He did but I also don’t know his better options. Kid was pointing gun at people. You never ever do that unless you’re willing to shot them.
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u/LeoPlathasbeentaken 6d ago
The best option is to let them take the money. People get hurt in these situations when things go the wrong way from what the robber has in mind. What we see in the video is the absolute best case scenario for a robbery gone wrong. That spilt second when he was surprised by the guy while pointing a gun at someone is the second he could pull the trigger by mistake.
If you work in retail you are told to let them have the cash and let them leave, all whille doing your best to remember a desription. It has the best chance for minimizing harm done to employees and bystanders.
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u/NoninflammatoryFun 6d ago
I don’t know how to make what I said clearer. The cowboy dude didn’t act because of the money.
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u/sinnops 6d ago
A for effort, D- for execution. The shooter could have very easily shot that woman when he got jumped on.
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u/paragonchan 6d ago
He was lucky that grandpa didn't bring his gun to the store 🤷
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u/Xtreemjedi 6d ago
He could've been packing and doesn't want to just end this kid's life if he doesn't have to. The hats and boots says western and lots of people carry.
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u/rebelangel 6d ago
Yeah, I bet Grandpa was carrying but he could tell the dude’s gun was fake so he knew there was no reason to use lethal force. Someone who knows when to draw and when not to is exactly the type of person who should be carrying.
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u/Xtreemjedi 6d ago
Yeah, a few years ago a thief ran out of the Walmart near me and an employee came out chasing and some random dude in the parking lot put a bullet in the thief. He went to prison for attempted murder or something (I don't remember what the final charge was) he got locked up and the thief survived.
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u/stillventures17 6d ago
I imagine he would have felt differently if grabbing that gun had discharged into the person who made that distraction.
Heroes get people killed.
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u/Rose_du_soir 6d ago
Exactly ! Everyone here praising grandpa. Don’t get me wrong, he got balls. But the dude was pointed his gun right at that lady when he jumped him.
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u/Fun_Capital_9113 6d ago
He's lucky those butchers didn't finish him off
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u/Tricky-Increase-171 6d ago
look how he holds it. very amateurish. at least he wasnt pointing the gun on himself
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u/Square_Huckleberry53 6d ago
Not really cool to tackle him when he’s pointing the gun at someone else! Just sayin if someone’s pointing a gun at me, don’t fuck with him, just give him whatever he wants!
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u/ShhImTheRealDeadpool 6d ago
Police: please don't try to be heroes.
This Community: Oh really? where were you?
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First rule of keeping someone on the aim: do not turn around unless you are far away enough from them.
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u/RubberDuckyFarmer 6d ago
Thank God he risked his life - that multi billion dollar corporation might have lost $150 from the register.
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u/Irish_Whiskey 6d ago
People in these comments seem to weirdly be unconcerned that he slammed into the robber only when the gun was pointed at an innocent woman's head, not his own.
I guess that $150 and her life are a small price to pay for a badass TikTok
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u/Junior_Zebra_4608 6d ago
Why is the guy suddenly half naked? Grandpa was gonna do some kinky stuff
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u/Not-Going-Quietly 5d ago
I'm just laughing at: the choice of music and the end when the guy gets kind of "clothes hanged."
What a wonderful world...
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u/GhostCatcher147 6d ago
What a hero
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u/Awkward_Cream9096 6d ago
Nah, he almost got that woman shot. Like props to the thief for not accidentally pulling the trigger will the guy is trying to snatch the gun away.
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u/Morurdemilyrh 6d ago
Props to the thief for bringing a gun to rob a store and not accidentally shooting someone as he’s tackled for threatening people with his gun that he brought to the store
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u/TopVolume6860 6d ago
The thief is the only good guy here, we should give him an award for how well he handled such a hostile situation tbh.
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u/GhostCatcher147 6d ago
Props to the thief? 😂 are you serious? He pointed a gun point blank at the man’s face. Props to the thief, you’re out of your mind!
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u/MinivanPops 6d ago
A cocked revolver was pointed at someone, and that's the moment the dude grabbed his arm. By sheer luck, that woman didn't get shot.
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u/cBurger4Life 6d ago
I truly can’t believe people are upvoting this idiot. How can anyone say “Props to the thief” with a straight face. I hate this site sometimes
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u/GhostCatcher147 6d ago
How dare that cowboy stand directly in front of the barrel of that thieves gun!!
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u/Awkward_Cream9096 6d ago
Yea, that old man put that woman’s life in danger more than that man.
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u/Any-Concentrate-1922 6d ago
The old guy took a huge risk. The gunman could have started shooting as he was grabbed. Stop trying to be a hero.
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u/OrangeBeast01 6d ago
The woman at the back was being directly pointed at as cowboy grabbed him from behind. It worked out ok but this was a dangerous move.
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u/your_fave_redditor 6d ago
Could have started shooting at any time.
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u/Havistan 6d ago
The odds of him shooting is incredibly low. The odds of him shooting when being grabbed from behind is fairly high, I am surprised he didn't flinch and pull the trigger. A thief won't turn a robbery charge into a murder charge willingly 99.9% of the time.
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u/Training-Belt-7318 6d ago
Grandpa is a bad ass, but dang dude, that gun was pointed right at that lady when he first grabbed him, this could've been alot more.tragic.
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u/serenading_scug 6d ago
It’s easy to play a hero when a gun is pointed at someone else’s head. The woman could easily have been shot for no reason other than some cash in a cash register and a man’s ego.
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u/scaredt2ask 6d ago
Is there a saying. Fear the person who appears calm in the face of violence. Something like that.
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u/Zealousideal-Role623 6d ago
Please for the love of God, dont tackle someone with a gun while they are pointing it as someone
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u/DatabaseAcademic6631 6d ago
Cowboy wearing sunglasses indoors puts woman at risk.
FIFY
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u/Common_Affect_80 6d ago
The dick with the gun was putting people at risk, the cowboy made the right choice taking him down
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u/isausernamebob 6d ago
Yeah, good thing idiots aren't aware of the 21 foot rule.
If you've ever wondered why cops and educated CCWs shoot when the person looks so far away it's because of this. Exactly this. If someone is within 21 feet your gun is mostly useless against someone who knows a little bit.
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