Police in Bellingham, Wash., say a gas station clerk with a hammer
stapler chased away a burly would-be robber armed with pruning shears.
The
Bellingham Herald reports ( http://is.gd/GWwQF9) that police released
photos Thursday of the Aug. 20 robbery attempt. They show a 6-foot-tall,
200-pound man wearing a black ski mask walking into Starvin' Sam's.
That's
where the intruder ran into David Kassner, a retired Army staff
sergeant who served in southeast Asia and was working the graveyard
shift.
The robber demanded money but Kassner refused. When the
masked man grabbed the cash register and tried to take the whole thing,
the clerk grabbed a nearby hammer-style stapler and swung it at the
man's head. Kassner missed that target but says he must have made
contact because the man ran off empty-handed, clutching his wrist.
Police spokesman Mark Young says police dogs tried to track the man but didn't find him.
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