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Date Posted: 05/26/05 10:47:10am Thu
first off i wanna apologize for not being here to post for the last couple of days. I have my reasons...and I will share them with you now...
Life is a funny thing really. at one point you think you're on top of the world, and then everything can be torn from you in the blink of an eye...or fifteen minutes. See, I was leaving Gamestop on friday night, talking on the phone with Javi about starting a new D&D campaign, when I noticed a box chevy caprice, with black tints parked near the store. what was suspicious was that the doors were cracked open. as the manager and I stepped out of the store, the doors opened and two figures rushed us. At first i was expecting them to ask us questions about some videogame or another, cuz that happens all the time...but as they rushed us, they drew their weapons. I remained calm...my manager screamed.
They smacked the phone from my hands and shoved me through the front door of the store. Well if any of you worked in retail before, you know that the alarm is set before you leave the store and you have 60seconds to exit. well anyways...as they shoved me through the door, one of the assailants pointed his chrome magnum to the back of my head and screamed at me to move faster. the other assailant was armed with a glock 9mm. they forced us to open the door to the back room, and then they yelled at us to give them the security tape. Well, when you have a gun to the back of your head...you realize something. you're over matched. I mean, I'm a black belt in tae-kwon do/jujitsu ...but i'm not stupid. i didn't fight back like i always imagined i would. they then proceeded to lay me on the floor, face down and took my wallet. they instructed me to take off my belt, bracelet and watch and lay them on the floor. As thats happening...the other assailant, get this, a female (the ugliest looking bitch i have ever seen BTW. i could have sworn it was a black guy with dreads or something.) anywyas, she is yelling at my manager, Stanford (funny huh? two stan's closing the store in one night.) to locate the safe. Stan keeps trying to tell her that its not in the back room, but in the front between the registers. Mind you...the alarm for the store started going off.
they then lifted me from the ground and shoved me through the door again to the registers, throw me to the floor, and put the magnum to my head again. this time i hear the click of the safety lifting. strangely though...i'm calm as hell. make no mistake...im terrified, but its like i'm detached from my body or something. the female is yelling at stan to open the safe, and he's trying. the thing is..its a time delay safe that takes 10mins to open (Now...i thought we were dead at this point because they could have thought we were trying to pull some kind of shit on them. you see, i dont take them as very smart...infact stan said the bitch had alcohol on her breath.) the alarm is still going off. the bitch thought that stan had done something to set the alarm off (the stupid bitch couldn't tell the alarm had been going off for about 2 mins now.) so she ejects the clip of ther glock, checks it, slaps it back in place and removes the safety. "I'm gonna fucking kill you!" is what she says...but stan is like...look, lemme disarm the alarm. As he disarms it...he tells them that Checkpoint is going to call the store to verify everything is ok...so they have to let him answer the phone. thank god they agreed. so stan tells checkpoint that he had forgotten his keys inside and had tried to make it before the alarm finished setting but failed. they bought it.
By this time the assailants completely ignore the still locked safe and shove us back into the backroom. at this point they kneel me on the floor, tie my hands with electical cord and the other assailant...a guy thats wearing a hankerchief over his mouth, places his magnum to my head again. (the only reason i could tell it was a magnum is that he reached around me at one point and rammed the barrel of the weapon into stan's back urging him to move faster when opening the back room door.) at this point, i close my eyes and figure that im screwed. But after taking about 10-15 playstation portables valued at about 250 a piece...plus all the gameboy advance and nintendo DS systems that we have...they make stan open the backdoor and they take off in two getaway cars. I'm still tied up in the corner. about 6 mins later...the police are there and were telling them everything.
now...this whole thing changed my perspective on life. i mean...my life flashed before my eyes like 8 times. Now, since they have my wallet...they didn't take stan's, they only took his money...I'm worried bout Identity theft...since my license and social security card were in my wallet... i've done eveythign to prevent that but the paranoia is still there y'know? i quit my job yesterday since, i worked and just being there at closing time made me relive the damned experience...now if they were paying me like 10 an hour instead of about 7...i would have stayed...but im not getting paid enough for that shit.
my life perspective is different now... I'm a bit more cynical...but, do you blame me?
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