Don’t mess with the owner
Two smash and grab thieves decided a little pawn shop would be the perfect place to hit in the middle of the night. The owners of the Ginpoudou pawnshop in Japan have a lot of cats. There’s even an illustration of a cat, wearing a loupe/jeweler’s lens and examining a ring, painted on the front of the store. The burglars came prepared with flashlights and a Fireman’s crow bar to lift the security gate and break through the glass front door. It seemed like the job was going to plan as the inside guy started breaking open the display case and grabbing watches, jewelry and small electronics on display. One element they had not calculated for was that the owner and his wife lived above the shop and were awakened by the smashing. So when the 63-year-old owner heard noises coming from downstairs a little after 2 in the morning on May 16, he figured some of his feline friends were having a spat of some kind. When he went to check on what exactly was going on, though, he discovered that two men were robbing the place, Grabbing a golf club. The owner confronted the pair, chasing them as they retreated to their car, which they’d parked out front. “I couldn’t let them get away, so I gave them a bit of a fight,” says the owner.
Eventually both of the robbers took refuge inside their getaway car, but with the owner still raining blows on the windshield with his iron, they seemingly started to panic, and couldn’t get the car started quickly. Their delay in making an escape proved costly, because it gave enough time for a second person to join the shop owner’s counterattack: his wife, who rushed the car while spraying a can of insecticide through the open driver’s-side window at the robbers inside. The robbers responded to the unexpected gas attack by raising the window. Unfortunately for them, by this time the owner had done enough damage to their windshield that cracks going all the way through the glass had formed. “Let me have the can,” the owner said to his wife, and after she passed it to him, he began to spray the insecticide through the windshield openings he’d made. As the car continued to fill with gas, the robbers realized they weren’t going to be able to breathe, so they opened up the doors and fled on foot into the night, leaving their vehicle and their sack of would-be stolen goods behind.
The shop owner suffered no direct injuries from the thieves, but did step on broken glass during the incident, which doctors say will take about two weeks to heal. Police apprehended one of the robbers, a man who has admitted to the charges and are searching for his accomplice, who’s said to be in his 50s. For his sake, we hope the police find him before the owner and his wife do. (The video below through the first 3 minutes shows the damage a man with a golf club can do.)
Pawn shop Puns
Sign in a pawn shop window.
“We value your presents.”
I went to the pawn shop yesterday to raise some funds to pay some bills.
They gave me $4500 and never even took the gun!
A robber comes into the store & steals a TV.
A blonde runs after him and yells, “Wait, you forgot the remote!”
What’s the difference between a Robber and a Peeping Tom?
A Robber snatches watches…
May 23rd Birthdays
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