Wow... Just... Wow...

[WillyT]

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WASHINGTON -- Police on Capitol Hill are baffled by an attempted robbery that began with a handgun put to the head of a 14-year-old girl and ended in a group hug.

It started about midnight June 16 when friends were finishing dinner outside a D.C. home, authorities and witnesses said. That's when a hooded man pointed a handgun at the girl's head.

''Give me your money, or I'll start shooting,'' he said, according to the witnesses.

One guest replied, "Why don't you have a glass of wine with us?'' said Cristina Rowan.

The intruder had a sip of Chateau Malescot St-Exupery and said, ''Damn, that's good wine.''

The would-be robber took another sip and put the gun in his sweat pants.

Then the man apologized.

''I think I may have come to the wrong house,'' he said. ''Can I get a hug?''

Rowan wrapped her arms around the man, and the four other guests followed.

The man walked away a few moments later. The group called 911.

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Link: http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.suntimes.com%2Fnews%2Fnation%2F468708%2CCST-NWS-hug15.article

I don't know if I'm appalled, impressed, or just plain flabbergasted!!!

:wow::wow::wow:

[Katherine Brengle]

1. I heard this on the news this morning...

I guess it's good no one got hurt - and maybe the kindness of strangers set this guy straight.

The whole thing sounded like something out a movie though.

[aquart]

2. Do we have to choose one? I'm going with all three.

But what a wine commercial!

[SoCalDem]

5. New commercial: "Buy ...... wine, it's good enough to melt a burglars heart"..

:rofl:

[tridim]

8. It's actually a better Mentos commercial

dooby doo doo do-wahhhhh!

[Captain Hilts]

It sounds like a robbery in London or Toronto, not DC. nt

[proud patriot]

3. perhaps if we all could be more inviting

there would be less hungry or thirsty robbers in the first place ..

:shrug:

[MindPilot]

4. great script for a wine commercial

you can't make up stuff that good.

And awesome display of cool and courage to defuse a deadly situation.

[thereismore]

6. KO had this on Countdown. nt

[C_U_L8R]

7. Gonna have to try that wine !!!

[Swamp Rat]

9. I think there is a powerful lesson to be learned here, about our society in general,

how we treat the disadvantaged and more marginalised members of society.

:shrug:

[WillyT]

11. I Agree Swampy, I Totally Agree !!!

Ya can't just legislate a great society, although I agree with those aims, ya have ta BE a great society.

If everybody decided to start running red lights, there wouldn't be a whole lot the police could do about stopping it. It takes the cooperation of the populace, and the looking out for the interests of others as well as ourselves, not just the enforcement of laws.

:shrug:

:hi:

[devilgrrl]

10. Gee whiz, that sounds like a sketch I saw on 'In Living Color'

:wow:

[LeftishBrit]

12. Sounds like an updated version of the Gilbert and Sullivan song..

When the enterprising burglar's not a burgling,
When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime,
He likes to hear the little brook a-gurgling,
And listen to the merry village chime!

When the coster's finished jumping on his mother,
He likes to lie a-basking in the sun.
Oh, take one consideration with another,
A policeman's lot is not a happy one!