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June 14, 2011

Marine Thwarts Robbery
— Ace

Actually, I don't really get his plan here, but it took guts, whatever it was, and I guess it sort of worked.

Plans may be overrated anyway. As one of the criminals said in The Way of the Gun, "A plan is just a list of things that won't happen."

Posted by: Ace at 03:25 PM | Comments (40)
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1 O/T...sorry, just had to -- Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban spent $110,000 in four hours celebrating at club Liv at Miami's Fontainebleau after his Mavs beat the Heat to take the NBA Championship. Cuban spent most of it on a $90,000 bottle of Ace of Spades Champagne for teammates Dirk Nowitzki........

Posted by: billygoat at June 14, 2011 03:27 PM (Cwo/J)

2 Dude kinda has that creepy Charles Johnson look about him.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at June 14, 2011 03:29 PM (lGFXF)

3 The Honey Badger keeps winking at me .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at June 14, 2011 03:30 PM (npr0X)

4 Dude has kinda got that 1000 yard stare about him. Totally different from Chas. Johnson.

Posted by: Jack at June 14, 2011 03:31 PM (kCT7A)

5 The got who stopped the bank robbers is really putting himself in for problems. he will be forever looking over his shoulders now.

Posted by: Vic at June 14, 2011 03:32 PM (M9Ie6)

he will be forever looking over his shoulders now.

Not a bad habit to have.

Posted by: garrett at June 14, 2011 03:33 PM (vFm3p)

7 Ha! What a wuss. He didn't even beat them senseless with a camera tripod.

Posted by: Nepalese gurkha at June 14, 2011 03:36 PM (6TB1Z)

8 Cuban spent most of it on a $90,000 bottle of Ace of Spades Champagne for teammates Dirk Nowitzki........ Posted by: billygoat at June 14, 2011 07:27 PM (Cwo/J) See what happens when you leave the Democrats in charge! Thanks to Obama's inflation and our devalued dollar, Val-U-Rite now costs $90,000!

Posted by: Tim Pawlenty on Every Question at June 14, 2011 03:36 PM (3nrx7)

9 Off damn sock!

Posted by: Damiano at June 14, 2011 03:37 PM (3nrx7)

10 >>> Not a bad habit to have.

Ease up there, brother, I'm still working on the I'm-able-to-polish-my-own yoga move IYKWIM

Posted by: Mr. Hathaway (aka jcjimi) at June 14, 2011 03:39 PM (ay6+/)

11 Salutes all around.

The CJ look-alike scared me a bit.

Posted by: sifty wan kablooie at June 14, 2011 03:39 PM (2dbd9)

12 If both those good guys had been able to carry guns there would be three less wastes of oxygen on my planet.

Posted by: sifty wan kablooie at June 14, 2011 03:41 PM (2dbd9)

13 Did the suspects "trip" on the curb, several times, afterwords?

Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2011 03:43 PM (kZ5Ek)

14 In the case of SGT Peoples, the Bank Robber shit his pants when People's took his gun away from him and threw him to the ground.

Posted by: nevergiveup at June 14, 2011 03:44 PM (i6RpT)

15 5 Dude has kinda got that 1000 yard stare about him. Totally different from Chas. Johnson.

Posted by: Jack at June 14, 2011 07:31 PM (kCT7A)

Indeed. Both guys had that look of total self-confidence, even if they were just making shit up as they went along.

I particularly like the smirk the second guy displayed when the police officer was acknowledging his skills at the presser.

Posted by: chazmartel at June 14, 2011 03:47 PM (OV2xF)

16 Did the suspects "trip" on the curb, several times, afterwords?

Posted by: andycanuck at June 14, 2011 07:43 PM (kZ5Ek)

Ho, that was the guy who robbed the store and on exiting ran across marines at a table collecting for a charity. He stabbed one of them in the back.

He "fell down" and broke both legs, a bunch of ribs, his teeth, and nose.

Posted by: Vic at June 14, 2011 03:49 PM (M9Ie6)

17 Just so long as we all understand that furniture is "concealment" and not "cover." :-)

In any case, good plans or bad plans or no plans... a person does have to wonder if the chance of pulling on the wrong fellow will change the behavior of thugs at all. It might do so. I think that it's good to publicize these things so that the thought is put into the bad-guy's heads as much as possible. Most "dangerous" persons work to project that perception of danger with what they wear and how they act... I suppose it's a language to establish territory and warn off others of like mind.. but a former Marine isn't doing that, or other military vet isn't doing that. They're likely to look just like anyone else, to not be giving off the right sort of signals .

Posted by: Synova at June 14, 2011 03:51 PM (P0X9Q)

18 I seriously doubt the wannabee thugs would remember what he looked like.

All around he did good, even impersonating as the anti Chas as bicycle boy would probably be hiding behind Charmutta's pants.

Posted by: Gmac at June 14, 2011 03:52 PM (41+hd)

19 >>> As one of the criminals said in The Way of the Gun, "A plan is just a list of things that won't happen."

Or as Eisenhower said: "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything"

Posted by: dan-O at June 14, 2011 03:53 PM (bRLuD)

20 See, that Marine is connected to an attempted robbery!!!! Let us at him - we'll cut him down to size.

Posted by: Pima County SWAT Team at June 14, 2011 03:54 PM (xy9wk)

21 In Israel all the off Duty Soldiers carry their weapons.

Posted by: nevergiveup at June 14, 2011 03:57 PM (i6RpT)

@17: "Ho, that was the guy who robbed the store and on exiting ran across marines at a table collecting for a charity. He stabbed one of them in the back."

See!!!! Now there are even more Marines, and they're connected to a stabbing!! Jesus, we need to take these guys out - they're a menace to honest citizens everywhere!

Posted by: Pima County SWAT Team at June 14, 2011 03:57 PM (xy9wk)

23 16:

Peoples definitely looks like he's seen Winston Zeddemore-level shit.

Posted by: sifty wan kablooie at June 14, 2011 03:59 PM (2dbd9)

24 Maybe we should discharge all of our soldiers with a concealed carry permit and a nice weapon. If they want one.

Posted by: Jack at June 14, 2011 04:02 PM (kCT7A)

25 I love it when a plan comes together.

Posted by: Jack Burton Mercer at June 14, 2011 04:04 PM (gTuWm)

26 22 In Israel all the off Duty Soldiers carry their weapons.

Which is why you see all the IDF wommens at the beach sipping beer with their M16s slung nearby.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 14, 2011 04:05 PM (c0A3e)

27 27:

Oooohhhh yeaaaaahh.

Love me all that.

Posted by: sifty wan kablooie at June 14, 2011 04:09 PM (2dbd9)

28 As one of the criminals said in The Way of the Gun, "A plan is just a list of things that won't happen."

If you Morons haven't seen this movie yet, you just got tipped off. Less than the sum of its parts, but worth watching. Lots more good quotes.

Posted by: fluffy at June 14, 2011 04:10 PM (SwkdU)

29 Pippa Middleton is single, unleash the hounds

Posted by: The Jackhole at June 14, 2011 04:10 PM (+qHxi)

30 Does pissing in the Tastykake aisle count as a plan? 'Cause that's my big plan. Pissing on my shoes while holding a butterscotch krimpet.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at June 14, 2011 04:10 PM (y/+eD)

@25: "Maybe we should discharge all of our soldiers with a concealed carry permit and a nice weapon. If they want one."

We agree!

Posted by: Zombie Charles Whitman, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Timothy McVeigh at June 14, 2011 04:11 PM (xy9wk)

@31: "Does pissing in the Tastykake aisle count as a plan? 'Cause that's my big plan. Pissing on my shoes while holding a butterscotch krimpet."

Go on......

Wait, how old again, please?

Posted by: R. Kelly at June 14, 2011 04:13 PM (xy9wk)

33 I want the criminals to be too scared to go to work every day, so publicize, publicize, publicize.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 14, 2011 04:17 PM (bxiXv)

@25: "Maybe we should discharge all of our soldiers with a concealed carry permit and a nice weapon. If they want one."

That's actually a seriously good idea.

Posted by: rabidfox at June 14, 2011 04:21 PM (v9AZD)

The pony-tailed guy looks like a member of the IVAW, but he still done good.

That black guy had balls of freakin' steel. Even after his kids were safe he went after the douchebag.

Posted by: Steph at June 14, 2011 04:22 PM (AkdC5)

36 I don't like pony-taileds hair choice, but I sure as hell won't mention it if I ever see him in person.

Posted by: Ronster at June 14, 2011 04:35 PM (ZgcMU)

37 Must have been he was excited about the Marines picking the HK M27 IAR.

Sorry to say, I am not.

Posted by: Marcus at June 14, 2011 04:53 PM (lGecC)

Sets a scarily high bar for the rest of us vets.
Kipling had a poem, as a regular soldier speaking of Royal Marines:

"Once in a while, they can finish in style,

which I 'ope it won't 'appen to me."

Posted by: Richard Aubrey at June 14, 2011 05:59 PM (wxHHM)

39 See, that Marine is connected to an attempted robbery!!!! Let us at him - we'll cut him down to size.

Posted by: Pima County SWAT Team at June 14, 2011 07:54 PM (xy9wk)

We've got your back, man!

Posted by: the dea (department of education's army) at June 14, 2011 06:34 PM (kZ5Ek)

40 >>> If you Morons haven't seen this movie yet, you just got tipped off. Less than the sum of its parts, but worth watching. Lots more good quotes

True fact. I'll tease with the opening scene here.

Posted by: dan-O at June 14, 2011 06:51 PM (bRLuD)

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