Customer Prevents Robbery by Mistaking Mugger for Employee

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Eric Lund
Feb 22, 2020 8:00 PM EST

Usually when someone mistakes a customer for an employee it's some kind of horribly entitled Karen who mistakes someone and they just roll with it, but this time it was the staff who had the customer to thank for their case of mistaken identity.

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    Text - r/IDontWorkHereLady · Posted by u/BraidedDivide 17 days ago Old lady mistakes mugger as employee XXL I work for a convenience store that has a strict "always comply with muggers" policy, I think because it's cheaper for them to deal with losing whatever's in the register than fighting a suit from an employee hurt defending it. I've worked here off and on for the last 5 years and I've been in the store for six robberies. They're usually pretty straightforward. Guy comes in, "give me the mo
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    Text - One of those times, though, the kid didn't wear a mask. Just a hoodie. Comes in with the hood up, young kid, couldn't have been more than 18-20. He paces around for a while, I guess trying to get his nerve up. I figured he was an underaged kid trying to work up the courage to buy some beer at first. It was really early in the morning and we were the only people in the store. He approaches the register and says he has a gun (doesn't pull it out, was probably bluffing) and that he won't use
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    Text - As he's doing this, an old woman comes in. Now I was getting really nervous because I didn't want the old lady to be in a dangerous situation, but before I could reac.. she recognizes the kid. She runs up to him and goes "OHHH NOAH! HELLO DEAR! HOW ARE YOU!" And the kid just freezes behind the counter, hands full of cash. She's older and I guess deaf so she's shouting. "I DIDN'T REALIZE YOU'D GOTTEN A JOB. GOOD FOR YOU DEAR. YOU KNOW I JUST SAW YOUR MAMA THE OTHER DAY AND SHE DIDN'T MENTI
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    Text - He's like "No, I don't–" But she isn't listening. "YOUR MAMA NEVER TELLS ME ANYTHING!" "I don't work-" "DON'T INTERRUPT ME HUN. ANYWAYS, YOUR MAMA NEVER TELLS ME ANYTHING." And she's just chattering on, and she starts shopping. I'm just standing there frozen, waiting to see how this plays out, with the guy still behind the register with me. The kid was almost a foot taller than me, and I didn't want to get into an altercation if I could help it. She goes through and she's shopping and she
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    Text - She's like "IS THIS REALLY THE BEST PRICE YOU'VE GOT FOR THIS?" And he's like "Uh.. yah." While he's doing this I call the cops. I think he knows I must've been doing that because he's beyond antsy. At one point he tried to bail but she was like "HOLD ON, DON'T CLOCK OUT YET, I'LL JUST BE A MINUTE. I WANT TO SEE YOU AT WORK! THIS IS SO EXCITING. YOU'RE ALL GROWN UP." So he's standing there awkward and panicked, trying to make a decision. Eventually she goes to check out, and I scan her it
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    Text - Wanting to keep things cool until she was out of the store on the off chance the kid did have a weapon of some kind or wasn't stable, I just stepped aside and let him check her out. He didn't really know how to use the scanner or anything but he got through it. She leaves. Once she's walked out, he runs out of the store and jumps into a car (he didn't get any money from us.) It was another 20 minutes before the cops got there so it wouldn't have mattered either way. But that was the most
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