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Sheriff: Suspect in robbery attempt apologized when business owner produced gun
www.wsoctv.com ^ | july 25, 2012

Posted on 07/25/2012 5:07:20 PM PDT by lowbridge

A man wielding an ax apologized after the owner of a business he was trying to rob got out a handgun, the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office said.

Early Wednesday morning, deputies were called to Rusty’s Grill on Pineview Drive because of an attempted armed robbery. The sheriff’s office said a man with an ax had walked into the restaurant and demanded money. When the business owner produced a handgun and challenged the man, he apologized, said he was on drugs and fled the scene, according to investigators.

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1 posted on 07/25/2012 5:07:32 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

never bring an axe to a gun fight


2 posted on 07/25/2012 5:09:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: lowbridge
An armed society is a polite society.
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3 posted on 07/25/2012 5:10:10 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: lowbridge

LOL!

The turkey learned how to apologize in a hurry.


4 posted on 07/25/2012 5:12:35 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: lowbridge

Better to work for a living than to go through life axing for money.


5 posted on 07/25/2012 5:13:09 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Love the cult, respect the leader, but I simply can't drink the koolaid and die.)
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To: jazusamo

The Smith & Wesson School of Etiquette.


6 posted on 07/25/2012 5:14:13 PM PDT by Argus
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To: lowbridge

And the business owner didn’t even have to fire warning shots into the robber’s knees. Piers Morgan be hexed.


7 posted on 07/25/2012 5:16:45 PM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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