Video Shows Robber Shoot Himself, Clerk At Same Time

[Double Naught Spy]

Aside from a firearm issue, and more a S&T issue - who robs a Hotel? I had no idea hotels even had a cash drawer... I thought they were exclusively plastic-fueled nowadays?

At least, the hotels I say in... I go to decent hotels and to actually sleep. That may be the difference.

I am afraid that you only have a customer view of hotels. Just because you don't see cash doesn't mean they don't have cash. Traditionally, hotels, especially some of the nicer ones but many of the run of the mill ones (and motels), are the first place guests turn when they need to get cash or need to break large bills into smaller bills. On top of that, those that have cafes, bars, or full scale dining accomodations also take in a tremendous amount of cash through those venues as well.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

Some guys get shot 21 time and still live, and others it only takes one.

 

[Gottahaveone]

At least this happened in Ga. If it was in some of the states, the clerk would probably be charged with manslaughter for forcing the poor robber to shoot at him, resulting in death. I'm still waiting to hear that the shooters family has sued the hotel. Who, me? Cynical?

 

[Cards81fan]

I am afraid that you only have a customer view of hotels. Just because you don't see cash doesn't mean they don't have cash. Traditionally, hotels, especially some of the nicer ones but many of the run of the mill ones (and motels), are the first place guests turn when they need to get cash or need to break large bills into smaller bills. On top of that, those that have cafes, bars, or full scale dining accomodations also take in a tremendous amount of cash through those venues as well.

I am okay with my limited view; I only hope my involvement in hotels continues to be as a customer

Thank you though for the helpful info.

 

[HuntAndFish]

Another lesson IMO is to teach your new shooters to follow through with each shot. Keep the trigger pulled back until the recoil is finished and your sights are back on target. Then and only then, reset the trigger.

 

[ants]

Play the video frame by frame and see if this happens...

Making it look like he's fumbling for cash in the drawer, the clerk actually pulls a small gun out of the drawer with his left hand, quickly stretches his left arm out to the bad guy and shoots first. If you go frame by frame, you see the muzzle blast into the bad guy's tee shirt first, then the money flies. This is probably when the bad guy shoots. After discharging, the bad guy's revolver flies out of his hand and up into the air about 12 inches, lands on the upper level of the counter to his left, then falls down on the lower desktop where it comes to a rest.

 

[Purgatory]

Hmmmmm. They musta' cut that part outta my clip. I didn't see that at all.

 

[Jeff F]

A few years back I had a S&W 629 6in that had a davis super tune done on it. Real sweet double action pull on it. I was just out plinking with a buddy and the rounds I was shooting were 240 gn hard cast swc on the magnum side but not super hot. My buddy asks to give it a spin so I hand it to him and he loads it up. He had never shot a .44 before so I told him it would buck a bit so hold on tight and go with the recoil.

He one arms it, lines up on target and pulls the trigger boom. He looks at me funny like and says here take this thing I don't want to shoot it no more. I say come on that could not have hurt that much. He says it didn't hurt it fired twice. I'm no way I was right next to him and I only herd one shot. I opened the cylinder and there were two fired casings.

 

[CornCod]

I think what we see here is some of the wierd and wacky stuff that can happen under extreme stress. I hope the poor clerk has a quick recovery.

 

[rbernie]

This story was pretty much OT when it started, and I've deleted enough posts in it that I think it time to let it go......