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Store owner gives would-be robber $40, bread

Bat-wielding man collapsed in tears, saying it was to feed starving family


N.Y. - A Long Island convenience store owner confronted by a bat-wielding would-be robber said Tuesday he decided to show mercy on the man after seeing him collapse into tears and claim he was only committing the crime to support his starving family.
The store owner provided the man with $40 and a loaf of bread and made him promise never to rob again.
"This was a grown man, crying like a baby," Mohammad Sohail, owner of the Shirley Express convenience store about 65 miles east of New York City, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

The man dropped the bread, picked up the bat and tucked the $40 into his waistband before fleeing, said Suffolk County police Sgt. John Best.
Sohail, who moved to the United States from Pakistan about 20 years ago, said he was getting ready to close his store shortly after midnight on May 21 when a man in his 40s entered with a bat in his hand. Sohail said he tried to stall for a moment and then grabbed a rifle he keeps behind the counter and ordered the assailant to drop the bat.
The would-be thief dropped to his knees and begged for forgiveness, Sohail said.
"He started crying that he was out of work and was trying to feed his hungry family," he said. "I felt bad for him. I mean, this wasn't some kid."
He said he tossed $40 to the man, who then stood up and told Sohail he wanted to become a fellow Muslim. Sohail said he then pretended to swear the man into the Muslim faith and two ended up shaking hands.
Sohail said he went to the back of the store to get some milk to give to the man, but when he returned the man had fled. He said he called police and reported the attempted robbery, but he doesn't want to press charges if the man is ever caught.
Best said detectives have reviewed a store surveillance video of the attempted holdup, but said it would be difficult for anyone to identify the suspect because he was wearing a mask.
Sohail, who said he had never been the victim of a robbery attempt, said he didn't expect any accolades for what he had done.
"I'm a very little man. I just did a good job," said the married father of one. "I have a good feeling in my heart. I feel very good."
 
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Pathetic is all I can think of. The guy is a total loser, but probably not a big threat to society. I applaud the shop owner for his outside the box actions. He probably saved the tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars by not involving the police. Hopefully the robber turns his life around.
 

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I wonder what the owner would have done if the guy just walked in and just asked for the money and bread first...

probably would have told him to get the fvck out and find a job you bum...

just saying..
 
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It's not stated in the story, but since I'm in NY ...been hearing and seeing this on the News and the papers..etc..

They left out the fact that the Rifle wasn't even Loaded !
 

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Mohammad Sohail, owner of the Shirley Express convenience store.


Really?

I mean Really?

Really..
 

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Food, Crack it's all the same.

"dropped the bread, picked up the bat and tucked the $40 into his waistband" Hungry my ass
 

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what was the store owner holding? looked like a gun, but was it the BAT he had taken away from the robber.
 

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the guy should still be punished by the law

and $40 can buy a lot of $1 hamburger from fast food joints. Hope he doesn't blow it on a night out at Red Lobster or somewhere like that.
 

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The news interviewed the shop owner as he showed off his unloaded gun. The nitwit news guy called it an unloaded shotgun. :ohno:
 

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the guy should still be punished by the law

and $40 can buy a lot of $1 hamburger from fast food joints. Hope he doesn't blow it on a night out at Red Lobster or somewhere like that.
i hear ya 3 trips to olive garden hes back out shopping with his basbeall bat
 

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They always seem to ask forgiveness once the gun is turned on them. Funny how that works.
 

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American is unemployed and robbing people to feed his family but the Muslim man is a self-employed and showing mercy on the poor, poor American by giving him a handout.

Yep we definitely have won the war on terrorism.

America is such a great country and a land full of opportunity for those who weren't born here.
 

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