You Call That A Knife?
A Florida convenience store heist attempt features dueling machetes
NOVEMBER 15--In a Crocodile Dundee-like moment, a Florida convenience store clerk repelled a machete-wielding robber by pulling out her own machete from behind the store's counter, a faceoff captured by a store surveillance camera.
On Tuesday, a man wearing a blue sweatshirt and baggy jeans approached the counter of the Lil' Saints store in Stuart and pulled the weapon from his pants. After he moved away from the counter for a moment, clerk Guillermina Sanchez, 46, grabbed her machete from under the cash register.
After a 20-second standoff (during which time the man frantically pressed keys on the register in a bid to open it), the robber left the business.
Detectives believe the suspect in the November 13 incident was also behind a mid-October robbery at the store which netted him about $500.
