Attempted robbery ends in group hug – Boston.com — This is the craziest story I’ve ever read. It shows you the power of a good Bordeaux. I’d like to know the vintage.
“Give me your money, or I’ll start shooting,” he said, according to D.C. police and witnesses.Everyone froze, including the girl’s parents. Then one guest spoke.
“We were just finishing dinner,” Cristina “Cha Cha” Rowan, 43, told the man. “Why don’t you have a glass of wine with us?”
The intruder had a sip of their Chateau Malescot St-Exupery and said, “Damn, that’s good wine.”
The girl’s father, Michael Rabdau, 51, told the intruder to take the whole glass, and Rowan offered him the whole bottle. The robber, with his hood down, took another sip and a bite of Camembert cheese. He put the gun in his sweatpants. The story then turns even more bizarre.
“I think I may have come to the wrong house,” he said before apologizing. “Can I get a hug?”
The right wing talk shows (esp. Rush Limbaugh) have been ridiculing this story as an example of crazy liberalism. Meanwhile nobody got robbed or killed and the robber is now converted into connoisseurship. And that’s bad?
When I saw this I knew Dvorak had to have posted it!
I;d guess he was a cunning connesuir
Limbaugh and his ilk see any peaceful solution to a problem as being frenchie, pansy, and/or librul. One wonders how these people handle little things like school board meetings, or their wives yeast infections.
Time to break out the ‘ol flame-thrower!
Sounds kinda feel-good to me.
And anything Chickenhawk Draft Dodger Rush “Anal Cyst” Limbaugh ridicules has GOT to be a good thing.
#4, They just get high and forget about it?
#6 – Are you insinuating that getting high is a bad thing?
“Chickenhawk Draft Dodger Rush “Anal Cyst” Limbaugh”
C’mon, MM. Don’t sugarcoat it, tell us what you really think of him…
Oh, and you left out ‘oxycontin-popping.’
>>Oh, and you left out ‘oxycontin-popping.
If I started in on all of Anal Cyst’s character defects, I’d crash the blog. Thanks for pointing out that Rush “Drug Abusers Should Go To Jail” Limbaugh is himself an addict.
It saddens and amazes me that people actually listen to that corpulent creep.
The other day the question was before being executed would you want a good wine or sex? We know how this guy would have voted?
And the father cracks me up. Gun to his daughters head, and he says take a glass. Cha Cha had the brains on this one. Guess we know how the father would have voted too?
I could have made the same suggestion, but only after having a few sips myself. Not clever enough when sober.
One more reason why I love my city.
When I heard this, I was barely surprized. If theres any place when an armed robbery could be stopped by some one crazy enough to go “wait…before you shoot that kid in the head….have some of this wine!”, it would be Washington D.C.
Just to pile on another example. According to the Limbaugh newsletter this is used as an example as to how liberals deal with terrorism. Cripes.
This would have never happened in Utah.
You know, why in god’s name are people taking this story and putting a lame-ass political spin on it? This is the way bad people should be dealt with, because they’re misunderstood people.
I believe we should be courteous all the time. It would make the world a slightly better place to live in (not withstanding the fact that by saying this I would prove to be a hypocritical punkass who never practices what I preach sometime in the future).