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On the afternoon of August 29, at roughly 3:50, a man walked into the Kikuma branch of convenience store chain 7-Eleven in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture. The man was described as appearing to be about 20 years old, 165 centimeters tall, and of slender build, and was dressed in a black shirt and black pants.
At the time, there were two part-time employees working in the front of the store, a 20-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman. The man in black walked up to the woman and pulled out a knife with a 20-centimeter blade. “Put the money in here!” he demanded while holding out an empty bag, making sure to use a clearly-phrased command so as to avoid any accidental or willful misinterpretation of his words.
Instead of giving the robber a single yen, she grabbed him by the arm. Then, with her male coworker watching, she forcibly dragged the robber out of the store. The man in black then fled on foot, with nothing taken from the shop and no one injured.
Online commenters had the following to say:
“The store manager should pay the woman extra since she ended up doing security guard duty too.”
“They should totally write a book about her.”
“Dude, help out, male clerk!”
“Just how weak is that robber?”
“Wait, are we sure she wasn’t really his mom after all?”
Source: Sankei News
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Michael Jackson
Making sure to use a clearly phrased command so as to avoid any blah blah blah... right I'm sure that's exactly what he was thinking
buffalo
This reads more like a passage from a crime novel.
Maria
I agree. What an odd line.
Hero or cavalier? She gambled that the guy wouldn't harm her, and she was right, but she could easily have been wrong. Good for her, and I hope to have as much gumption if in trouble, but unless the store was hers, was it worth it to risk her life?
I'm conflicted!
Strangerland
Not worth risking her life. But that said, what an awesome lady! She doesn't even bother to take names when kicking ass.
Ah_so
I still don't feel that Japanese ever translates very well into informal American English.