Posted on 10/20/2010 2:48:56 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
A northeast Dallas man said a robber's coin toss may have saved him from being shot this morning.
Area where robbery reported According a police report, Victor Nowzari, 22, was walking his dog around 3:30 a.m. today behind the Oak Meadow apartment complex, in the 11000 block of Woodmeadow Parkway, when he was approached by a man who asked to use his phone.
Nowzari agreed, and the two walked back toward his apartment, the report said.
As Nowzari unlocked his apartment door, another man darted up, yanked Nowarzi's arm behind his back, and pressed a gun to the back of his head, police said. The men then entered the apartment.
The two robbers made Nowzari lie face-down in his kitchen while they ransacked his apartment, police said.
In a statement to investigators, Nowzari said he watched them look in kitchen cabinets and the refrigerator and heard one suspect repeatedly call the other one by name. Nowzari reported that each man kicked him as he lay on the floor.
When the two men were done looting the apartment, he said, they demanded that he give them the personal identification number for his bank account. The men called the bank to check Nowzari's balance, but found the account was overdrawn.
After calling the bank, one of the robbers -- in a macabre scene lifted almost whole cloth from No Country for Old Men -- flipped a coin to decide whether to shoot Nowzari, according to the police report. Nowzari won the toss and was forced into a closet.
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You have got to be kidding ....
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Stupid is as stupid does.
Or Harvey Dent/Two Face...
Anton Chigurh: What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss.
Gas Station Proprietor: Sir?
Anton Chigurh: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.
Gas Station Proprietor: I don't know. I couldn't say. [Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and covers it with his hand]
Anton Chigurh: Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Call it?
Anton Chigurh: Yes.
Gas Station Proprietor: For what?
Anton Chigurh: Just call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.
Anton Chigurh: You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.
Gas Station Proprietor: I didn't put nothin' up.
Anton Chigurh: Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?
Gas Station Proprietor: No.
Anton Chigurh: 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Look, I need to know what I stand to win.
Anton Chigurh: Everything.
Gas Station Proprietor: How's that?
Anton Chigurh: You stand to win everything. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Alright. Heads then.
[Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads]
Anton Chigurh: Well done.
[the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change he's apparently won while Chigurh starts out]
Anton Chigurh: Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.
Gas Station Proprietor: Where do you want me to put it?
Anton Chigurh: Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.
If you want off my ping list get over it!
LOL
(Mrs)T
Chilling..just chilling. Life in the balance on the toss of a coin. Lord help us.
This man (moron) needs a smarter dog.
Two-Face was later caught by Batman.
....but the Joker got away.
Classic scene from Cohen brothers.
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