Have You Ever Been Robbed at Gunpoint?

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Jules

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Have you ever been robbed at gunpoint or by someone with a knife? Or been in a dangerous situation because someone had a weapon. It happens frequently in TV shows and movies or is on the news. Has it happened to you?
 

I once missed an armed robbery at our local Post Office by a couple of minutes.
Was shocked when I heard about it on the news….not least because nothing like that had happened here before or since!
 

My parents were, in the late sixties. They were in a 'good' neighborhood in Queens NY visiting friends one Saturday night. As they entered their friends' building, a young man asked them to hold the door, which they did. Why? As my mom said "He was So Clean Cut' HAH! This non-hippie pulled a gun on them and robbed them. They were not hurt, so I can laugh about 'Clean-Cut!'
 
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I was having a quiet pint and reading my paper one lunchtime at my local.

All of a sudden Mrs Marlden (the pub landlady) was shouting and produced a cricket bat from under the counter. She then whacked a young bloke holding a knife across the earhole, he dropped the knife and legged it out of the pub. No-one messes with Mrs M. 😊
 
I have arrested people while a crime was in progress and a robbery with weapons were pointed at me. It drove my adrenaline to the point where only once did I come within a second of ending the perpetrator’s life. When police tell anyone to “drop it,” it’s probably a good idea to do so. Usually, there isn’t a second request.

I was on patrol when I got a call from a 911 operator that a silent alarm went off at an all night pharmacy in Scranton. When I entered the store, I saw the armed robber had jumped the counter and had his hands in the register taking out the money. I had my weapon drawn and when he saw me, he went to pick up his gun that he had laying beside him, I yelled “Don’t do it.!” He immediately stopped and raised his arms. Had he picked up his pistol, I probably would have been forced to fire. It was a scary moment for the perp, the cashier and me.
 
Never robbed at gunpoint, but I was held at gunpoint by a bunch of police once. Our vehicle was mistakenly identified as the escape vehicle at a robbery scene. I was tailed on a cold snowy slippery rural road. I pulled over to let them pass, but they would not. Then I pulled in a driveway and then all of sudden there were sheriff’s cars and deputies all over and they ordered me out of the car to walk backwards to them, which I did.

They very nearly shot my wife who had her hands in her pockets due to the cold. After seeing my two other “accomplices” that were my kids, and getting other information, they uncuffed me, gave a brief apology, and let us all go. What I remember most is how one of the officers was shaking so - in their mind, this was going to be an all-out gun fight.
 
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911 said:
It drove my adrenaline to the point where only once did I come within a second of ending the perpetrator’s life. When police tell anyone to “drop it,” it’s probably a good idea to do so. Usually, there isn’t a second request.
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Michael Z said:
What I remember most is how one of the officers was shaking so - in their mind, this was going to be an all-out gun fight.
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We forget how difficult it is for the police too.
 
Michael Z said:
Never robbed at gunpoint, but I was held at gunpoint by a bunch of police once. Our vehicle was mistakenly identified as the escape vehicle at a robbery scene. I was tailed on a cold snowy slippery rural road. I pulled over to let them pass, but they would not. Then I pulled in a driveway and then all of sudden there were sheriff’s cars and deputies all over and they ordered me out of the car to walk backwards to them, which I did.

They very nearly shot my wife who had her hands in her pockets due to the cold. After seeing my two other “accomplices” that were my kids, and getting other information, they uncuffed me, gave a brief apology, and let us all go. What I remember most is how one of the officers was shaking so - in their mind, this was going to be an all-out gun fight.
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The last thing in the world anyone would want is someone with the shakes and their gun trained on you...:eek:
 
When I was around 12 I was at a friends house and a guy stopped and asked to use the phone. Seeing no parents home he pulled a knife out, tied up my friend and I, then molested my friends younger sister right in front of us, then tied her up. He went thru the house looking for valuables and then left.

Very unusual occurrence for a rual farming community It was a tramau that changed our young lives for sure.
 
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An attempted car jacking with thugs with knives in a good part of town, I stopped it with my legally carried handgun in a few seconds they choose the wrong people to rob that time. I was in court 4 days and nothing came from it other than death threats. You just never know where nor when bad things can happen, but being prepared saved our lives that day. My dad lost an eye from this attack.
Oddly my best friend was attacked by an illegal migrant and beat badly, raped, and left for dead but managed to get to her weapon and stopped it instantly, she now is handicapped and will never walk again
 
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When I was around 12 I was at a friends house and a guy stopped and asked to use the phone. Seeing no parents home he pulled a knife out, tied up my friend and I, then molested my friends younger sister right in front of us, then tied her up. He went thru the house looking for valuables and then left.

Very unusual occurrence for a rual farming community It was a tramau that changed our young lives for sure.
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Wayne said:
An attempted car jacking with thugs with knives in a good part of town, I stopped it with my legally carried handgun in a few seconds they choose the wrong people to rob that time. I was in court 4 days and nothing came from it other than death threats. You just never know where nor when bad things can happen, but being prepared saved our lives that day.
Oddly my best friend was attacked by an illegal migrant and beat badly, raped, and left for dead but managed to get to her weapon and stopped it instantly, she now is handicapped and will never walk again
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😔😞😟😥
 
C50 said:
When I was around 12 I was at a friends house and a guy stopped and asked to use the phone. Seeing no parents home he pulled a knife out, tied up my friend and I, then molested my friends younger sister right in front of us, then tied her up. He went thru the house looking for valuables and then left.

Very unusual occurrence for a rual farming community It was a tramau that changed our young lives for sure.
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That’s horrid. I hope they caught him.

Wayne said:
Oddly my best friend was attacked by an illegal migrant and beat badly, raped, and left for dead but managed to get to her weapon and stopped it instantly, she now is handicapped and will never walk again
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That’s heartbreaking.
 
In about 1990 my son was living in Saint Louis area, and after a long work day, stopped at a burger joint for a take home dinner. As he was putting the sack of food on the roof to unlock the car door, a young man came up behind him with a pistol and demanded my son's wallet. Big mistake. As he pretended to reach for his wallet, my son spun around, knocked the gun out of the man's hand with his left hand, and then hit him with his right hand. The man fell like a sack of potatoes. Police were called, ambulance was called, etc. When the case came up in court, the young man was still bandaged up. The blow by my son had crushed his eye socket.

Was this a dangerous thing for my son to do? Of course. But he was all state in several sports in high school, wrestled at and graduated from West Point, and had just finished his 5 year hitch in the Army.
 
About ten years ago I had a road rager stick a gun in my face. My friend and I were bicycling, riding single file on a wide road where there was little traffic. I guy passing in a car throws water on us then pulls over down the road, happened so fast we didnt have time to yell or flip him off, we didnt react at all. We stop about fifty feet from him and he jumps out and charges us pointing a gun, he's screaming that he's sick of f**king bikers. He didnt stop until he was just a few feet away, swinging the gun back and forth between my friend and me, we didnt say a word. Then he simply heads back to his car and drives away.

I wanted to call the police but my friend stopped me, he was afraid the guy would find out his name and then come to his home endangering his wife and young daughters.
 

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