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2 robbers hold 40 Nashville restaurant customers at gunpoint
wkrn.com ^ | 30 Dec 2010 | unattributed

Posted on 12/31/2010 11:34:28 AM PST by smokingfrog

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Two men walked into a packed east Nashville restaurant and robbed it at gunpoint, forcing 40 people to the ground.

Metro police said around 11 p.m. Wednesday, two men with what looked like pantyhose over their heads walked into the Holland House on West Eastland Avenue.

One of the suspects was holding a sawed off shotgun and the other had a handgun.

About 40 customers were forced onto the floor.

"When you have someone willing to come in and try and control 30 to 40 people in any type of setting, obviously there's a propensity for violence in those acts," Metro Police Capt. Chris Taylor said. "Just if by chance if they make a mistake, have their finger on the trigger and it goes off, the chances of somebody getting hurt are 10 fold."

The men stole some of the customers' items but focused mainly on the restaurant's money.

"The first thing that came to mind was, ‘Are my neighbors OK, was my staff OK.' Thankfully everyone was," owner of Holland House Terrell Raley said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
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To: JRandomFreeper

>> No steak knives, and tables bolted to the floor there?

You’d have to suppress the two perps without anyone else getting injured for that to make sense.


21 posted on 12/31/2010 11:57:11 AM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: isthisnickcool

LOL, when I read the headline, that picture was the first thing that popped into my mind.

The second picture was the guys in some movie (help me out here, I cannot recall the name) robbing a convenience store with pantyhose over their heads, but the legs drape down each side of their heads like ears...as they back out the door and turn around to run to the car, the guy turns and runs right into one of those iron pipe posts at crotch level...I thought it was “Repo Man”, but it has been so long since I have seen it...


22 posted on 12/31/2010 11:57:57 AM PST by rlmorel ("If this doesn't light your fire, Men, the pilot light's out!"...Coach Ed Bolin)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I had the movie on the mind, because I just watched it again for the first time in years...classic, simply classic.

I know Tarantino is a idiot liberal turd, but...I like what I like.


23 posted on 12/31/2010 12:00:12 PM PST by rlmorel ("If this doesn't light your fire, Men, the pilot light's out!"...Coach Ed Bolin)
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To: Gene Eric
Oh, someone's going to get injured. And there is no requirement for things to make sense during a robbery.

Unleash the hounds. Wanna dance? Really? Let's dance.

/johnny

24 posted on 12/31/2010 12:00:57 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: wjcsux

Yeah, real nice huh? I’m just waiting for the next Luby’s massacre to occur because criminals use something like this to target their victims.


25 posted on 12/31/2010 12:01:08 PM PST by smokingfrog (Do all the talking you want, but do what I tell you.)
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To: rlmorel

That movie might be Raising Arizona.


26 posted on 12/31/2010 12:01:30 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: JRandomFreeper
Be more open minded..........

27 posted on 12/31/2010 12:03:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Yes, the location was once a low-end grocery and someone did put a lot of money into it. It looks nice and I’ve been told the food is very good, but everything to the west of it is literally crime-ridden, both to the north and the south. If they were just 2 blocks east of where they are, the odds of this happening would be dramatically lower. Now the “gentrified” folks from my side of the neighborhood won’t be going back, I suspect, and the food and prices are not likely to attract the other folks.


28 posted on 12/31/2010 12:04:22 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: BenLurkin; Lazmataz
NO!

Besides, she's white. Not my kink.

But Laz, he's like Mikey. He's hit it like a tiny asteroid smashing into a gas giant at 35 kps.

/johnny

29 posted on 12/31/2010 12:06:39 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Emmett McCarthy
Sad. If someone had killed the perps and the concierge had dragged them to the curb for pick up... it would have a good rep. Instead of a bad rep like it has now.

Location, Location, Location. And you risk your life when you serve anything but breakfast (yay! money) and lunch.

/johnny

30 posted on 12/31/2010 12:09:52 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Americans have been deliberately conditioned to do nothing but call 911 and let the PROFESSIONALS handle it.

That you may die waiting for the professionals doesn't bother the union members one little bit.

In a nation of free,responsible people, these two perps would have benn subdued,one way or another, under the combined responses of two dozen irate customers.

31 posted on 12/31/2010 12:10:47 PM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: Emmett McCarthy

East Nashville is nothing but a Haven for Crack Dealers and Prostitutes protected by Mayor Karl Dean and District Attorney Torry Johnson. The Police Chief Ronal Serpas was running a protection racket for the drug dealers. Nashville Judge Tom W. Brothers was indicted for drug money laundering.

Nashville is the 7th Most Dangerous City in America. Memphis is the Most Dangerous City in America.

Nashville ranked seventh most dangerous city
Nashville City Paper ^ | 10-15-10 | Nashville City Paper

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2626727/posts


32 posted on 12/31/2010 12:11:15 PM PST by FS11
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To: rabidralph; rlmorel

YouTube - A Panty On Your Head
 
 

Son, you got a panty on your head.

34 posted on 12/31/2010 12:11:53 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
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To: rabidralph

Yes! That’s it! Good job...:)


35 posted on 12/31/2010 12:12:24 PM PST by rlmorel ("If this doesn't light your fire, Men, the pilot light's out!"...Coach Ed Bolin)
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To: hoosierham

East Nashville is nothing but a Haven for Crack Dealers and Prostitutes protected by Mayor Karl Dean and District Attorney Torry Johnson. The Police Chief Ronal Serpas was running a protection racket for the drug dealers. Nashville Judge Tom W. Brothers was indicted for drug money laundering.

Nashville is the 7th Most Dangerous City in America. Memphis is the Most Dangerous City in America.

Nashville ranked seventh most dangerous city
Nashville City Paper ^ | 10-15-10 | Nashville City Paper

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2626727/posts


36 posted on 12/31/2010 12:13:43 PM PST by FS11
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To: hoosierham
Some are. dih-dah-dit....

/johnny

37 posted on 12/31/2010 12:16:14 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Responsibility2nd

LOL...I think I had perhaps three movies mixed up at once...

Kind of like the Easter Bunny coming down the chimney to put eggs under your pillow...


38 posted on 12/31/2010 12:18:46 PM PST by rlmorel ("If this doesn't light your fire, Men, the pilot light's out!"...Coach Ed Bolin)
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To: FS11

I think you’re lumping all of East Nashville together in an inaccurate way. We have some great restaurants and night spots in very desireable neighborhoods. It starts getting real rough, though, between McFerrin Ave. and Dickerson Rd. That’s where “ghetto” begins and this place is on the corner of McFerrin and W. Eastland.


39 posted on 12/31/2010 12:19:47 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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So many good scenes that that movie. So many good lines.
Jules, if you give this nimrod fifteen hundred buck, I'm gonna shoot 'em on general principle.

40 posted on 12/31/2010 12:20:21 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
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