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[jeremx]

..try and steal shit from the am/pm on 32nd st and oak.

so i'm standing by the pump about to start filling my truck with gas when two people come sprinting past me towards the car on the other side of the pump. a woman drops an 18pk of bud light and opens the passenger side door as some guy is jumping in the driver's side. from behind me another two guys rush the car. one tries to open the driver's side door that the the driver has locked by now. the other dude takes a metal bar the size of a baseball bat and SMASHES THE FUCKING WINDHIELD IN! no bullshit. he then proceeds to smash in the passenger-side windows.. then the hood. by now the driver has started the car and starts to back out. so i'm thinking he's gonna drive the fuck outta there. nope. he gasses it and charges the dude with the metal bar. that dude is standing in front of the gas pump which is directly in front of me. i'm thinking he's about to run this dude over and slam into the gas pump and douse me with gas so i book it about 10ft and look back. luckily the guy hits the brakes in time, backs up, and speeds away onto 32nd street.

i realized that the guy must have been being held inside because they had had time to move a pickup truck in front of his car so it can't drive forward. and the woman who dropped the beer was also an employee. i don't know if she wrestled the beer away from the guy before he got to the car or what. but man.. that giant mexican dude with his braided ponytail sure had a blast fucking up that guys car. for a minute i'm thinking it's some sort of fight. like a domestic dispute or something because, in my head i'm thinking, "there's no way you can just smash the shit out of someone's car for stealing gas." at that time i figured he'd just tried to make off with some free gas.

anyway.. as the guy with the metal bar walks past me i looked at him and said, "man, you guys don't play around." and he looks at me and says, "not today." raddest morning commute ever. lol

[donald]

HOLY FUCK!


Best line: "not today"

[Jacki O.]

AMAZING


so the ampm guys/gals smashed the windshield of a theif!?!? holy shit

[jeremx]

AMAZING
so the ampm guys/gals smashed the windshield of a theif!?!? holy shit

yep. this metal bar he had looked like a bat. i figured it'd just bounce off. nope. smashed that shit right in. and this was a big dude. he went straight barry bonds on that car.

[donald]

this is better than what any cop could do to scare people from ever stealing again

[mothrock]

I'm thinking the whole time that this happened at night.

When you said it happened in the morning, that made it such a better story.

[Mary]

Diamond Shamrock at 40th St/McDowell a few weeks back: Dude and lady (who seem to be there together) walking through parking area, hollering like mad, he has her purse, some shoving starts up, she starts to slap and punch, I dial 911 from my front seat and then see the motorcycle cop already driving up to them and hang up.

I watch closely (when the phone rings, I say, "Thanks. They're already here") as an SUV full of cops separate the now-cuffed guy from the lady, who is joined by a friend. There are at least five officers out there, but the two nearest the chicks, who are nearest me, are watching them out of the corner of the eye, at best, so I sit in the locked car while they decompress and take nothing scarier than hairbrushes out of their pockets and purses.

I start up to drive away but have to roll down my window and politely ask them to move so I can drive, which they do.

Not nearly as fun a story, but kind of typical Phoenixy where things can go very south and then mellow out almost right away. I completely understand why my neighbors don't want a QT built at the intersection all the kids have to cross 44th at to go to school.

[jeremx]

i was at the chevron on thomas and 32nd (i think) the other day getting gas when this pregnant woman walks up to me and asks if i have any change for her. i didn't and let her know. she said thanks anyway and moved on to an older african-american gentleman a the next pump. i can't hear their conversation but he takes out his wallet and starts looking through it's contents. as he's doing this, to young hispanic guys start yelling from the bus stop for him not to give her any money. they keep yelling things like "hey, don't give her any money" and "she's gonna buy drugs and kill that baby!" he gave her some cash anyway and she moved on to another guy at the next pump. from what i could tell, he didn't give her any money. i almost went over to ask the guys that were yelling what they knew that i didn't. was she really some tweaker? because if not, and she's just down on her luck, then shut the fuck up. i'm not big on panhandling.. i mean, there's almost always some way to find some sort of help out there. but if it's all you got at the moment, hell, ask someone for change. all they can do is say "no." well i guess they could tell you to fuck off or something but that's likely the extent of it.

[negicore]

Through college I worked at a Xtra Mart in the heroin capital of the northeast, I got some stories....

[MikeyWretch]

The Circle K On Hardy amd University has a no chase policy. So um yeah next time you are low on cash but still need booze.....

[jeremx]

i wanna stop by there after work and ask for a copy of the surveillance tape.

[bisbee slim]

The Circle K On Hardy amd University has a no chase policy. So um yeah next time you are low on cash but still need booze.....

the only beer run i ever did was from this circle k

[VikingGuitar]

this is better than what any cop could do to scare people from ever stealing again

Yes, yes, YES! The law prevents me from going apeshit on a guy's windshield because he stole beer. However, this is a great story!

[JJames]

make this into a made for tv movie