11-YO Girl & Her Father Scare Off Knife-Wielding Robber After Throwing Soda Cans & Bread At Him
Masked robbers storming into grocery store is a pretty common phenomenon.
More often than not, the store owners are petrified of these armed thugs that they give them whatever they want.
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But there are a few who refuse to succumb to the situation and instead fight back. Like this 11 year old girl, who along with her father, saved their grocery store from getting robbed, all thanks to her presence of mind.
According to reports, a masked robber stormed into their shop in Worthing, West Sussex on Monday, wielding a knife.
But the owner and his daughter weren't going to back down. they attacked the robber with two bottles of squash and a loaf of bread at him in an attempt to stop money from the shop's till being stolen.
¡°I cannot praise enough the bravery of the father and daughter who intervened in this knifepoint attempted robbery,¡± Sussex Police Detective Constable Noel Simmonds said via a statement.
¡°There are considerable risks anytime a knife is used or brandished and whilst it is tempting to just view the spectacle of an armed robber fleeing in panic from a young girl, if the suspect is not caught he may try again and next time someone could be seriously hurt,¡± Simmonds continued.
Thankfully the duo averted a potentially dangerous faceoff by scaring the robber away, The police are now trying to identify the masked thief and arrest him.
