From Fright to Terror
A gunman robs the Olympic Hotel in Preston just before 3am yesterday. Not even the trained guard is allowed a gun, so the the evil crim has a lucky day.
So empowered is he that he will do it again and again because the public is unarmed.
Detroit, LA, Jo'burg? No, Melbourne
January 13, 2008
January 13, 2008
THE gunman stepped through the side door of the Olympic Hotel in Preston just before 3am yesterday, as eight stragglers hung around the poker machines and four staff cleaned up. He had a balaclava over his face and a pistol in his hand.
Later, witnesses could not describe the robber beyond the fact he was big and burly and that his handgun was big and black.
He pointed the pistol at the lone security guard, a 19-year-old who had been in the job only a few weeks.
The young man was shocked, police said later, but cool enough to take the bandit where he demanded to go — all the way through the gaming room to the strong room, where cash from the bars, bistro and the pub's 80 poker machines had been stashed away.
There, fright turned to terror as the bandit menaced the guard with the pistol in his right hand while he punched him in the head with his left.
posted by 10 men at 2:38 PM
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