life
Share icon

Share

Video: Armed raider has a gun, shopkeeper has a machete. Shopkeeper wins.

Published 10:33 9 Oct 2013 BST

Updated 14:41 12 Nov 2014 GMT

JOE
Video: Armed raider has a gun, shopkeeper has a machete. Shopkeeper wins.

Homelife

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqKd64lKWtU

This would-be robber didn’t bank on the sales assistant meeting fire with fire when he went to raid this New York store.

The incident happened last month – a glitch in the camera settings wrong indicates it is 2011 – and the New York deli worker reacted quickly when an armed man entered the store and fired a shot at the wall and demanded money. Rather than bow to the demands, the 24 year-old worker decided to use the machete which the store owner had bought just a month previously for security purposes. You live by the sword, you don't get robbed by the sword.

Explore more on these topics:

Video: Armed raider has a gun, shopkeeper has a machete. Shopkeeper wins.