03-26-2005, 11:34 PM
I work in a local coffee shop where our main customer base is street people, transients, a few good regulars, and some local politicians. We make great coffee (we roast it fresh there), and we make decent business, but anyone who knows us would know that the owners are modest people, not wealthy or anything.
so to the point, a couple nights ago, while i was closing out my register, after the doors are locked and everything else is ready to go but the trash, a guy walks up to me and says he has a gun. So, i let him take the contents of the register (he gets away with $185), and Billy, my closing partner, walks up behind the guy, not realizing what's going on. I tell Billy to step back and let the guy go, but since then, we've both been confused: did we do the right thing? The guy was about my hieght, and there was only one of him and two of us, so would it have been better to just attack the guy? He said he was armed, but i doubt he was. Nobody was hurt, fortunately, and i don't mean to take the situation so lightly, but does the fact that we did nothing justify what this guy did?
What would you guys have done?:mellow:
so to the point, a couple nights ago, while i was closing out my register, after the doors are locked and everything else is ready to go but the trash, a guy walks up to me and says he has a gun. So, i let him take the contents of the register (he gets away with $185), and Billy, my closing partner, walks up behind the guy, not realizing what's going on. I tell Billy to step back and let the guy go, but since then, we've both been confused: did we do the right thing? The guy was about my hieght, and there was only one of him and two of us, so would it have been better to just attack the guy? He said he was armed, but i doubt he was. Nobody was hurt, fortunately, and i don't mean to take the situation so lightly, but does the fact that we did nothing justify what this guy did?
What would you guys have done?:mellow: