This is funny. It is the New York Post so credibility perhaps. Who knows? Enjoy the video.

A St. Louis man who’s obviously seen a few things was caught on camera looking completely unphased as an armed thief held up the bar he was drinking in.

At one point, the man can be seen lighting up a cigarette — keeping his cool the entire time and refusing to get up from his chair — while the suspect points his heavily modified pistol at him. He even refuses to give up his cellphone when ordered by the crook.

“He just was very adamant about it like, ‘I’m not playing your game,'” said bartender Dustin Krueger, who spoke to KMOV4 and other local outlets on Thursday.

Everyone else in the bar during the Wednesday night incident can be seen hitting the deck and looking scared for their lives as the robbery suspect waves his gun at them and takes their belongings. But not the bespectacled “badass,” as some people were describing him on social media.

“This is incredible,” wrote one person on Twitter. “Dude has no f–ks left.”

Another user said, “That dude has balls of steel or has nothing left to lose. Either way, ice flows in his veins.”

According to reports, the suspect managed to get away with everyone else’s possessions and some cash from the bar, but nothing belonging to the cigarette man. Many wondered if the guy was just too drunk to realize what was going down.

“We’re hardcore (or numb or really like our drink) here in Mound City,” tweeted one resident.

Some were comparing the man to Samuel L. Jackson’s character in “Pulp Fiction,” who also sits calmly through a stick-up.

“My hero,” said one Twitter user.

LINK: https://nypost.com/2019/08/29/...uring-armed-robbery/

It's a great story and we all want to think we'd act that way in the face of danger. Lighting up a smoke would be something Eastwood (in his younger days) or JCVD might do in a movie, just before breaking out the whole can o' whoopass. But, has anyone considered that the guy might have acted that way because he was petrified? There is such a thing as jus freezing up, and for a smoker, ligting a cigarrette is an automatic action. Notice that he continues to lighthis cigarette after it's lit. You can see the glowing end of the cigarette, but he hits it again with the lighter. That seems like something a really nervous person might do, and who can blame hime for that? None of us know what was going through his head, so we project upon him that which we hope for.

Ah, the "heavily modified pistol", AKA the Hi Point carbine.

I agree good point. Wish there was an interview with the guy or some more background.

If he were shitting his pants- and again, who could blame him if he were- and they interviewed him, now that everyone is calling him a hero, it would take an exceptionally honest person to say "Yeah, man, I was soilin' my Underoos. I didn't raise my hands or get on the floor or whatever 'cause I just plain froze."

You have to admit, it does not appear to be a rational reaction to having a thug stick a rifle in your face. You don't know them or how much of a psychopath they are. Some other thug might have shot that guy right off of his stool.

So, I don't know that an interview would provide much insight.

Doesn't look like he was in on it, but who knows.

Either way, isn't the safest bet to just give him your stuff. It's only stuff.

If he's going to shoot, he's going to shoot. If you can't or won't get to your CCW, it doesn't matter anyway.

And getting in a gun fight in a room full of people where you can't know where every one of your boolets is going would be not cool. Especially if you're carrying and you've been at the bottle. Not cool at all.

H&K-Guy

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Originally posted by H&K-Guy:
Doesn't look like he was in on it, but who knows.

That is a highly plausible explanation, even more so than freezing up. However, you'd think that if he was in it, he would play along by complying so as not to appear conspicuous.

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So, I don't know that an interview would provide much insight.

Yeah, definitely not from a typical news reporter. I was thinking along the lines of some background information. It could fill out the story. You know somebody like Jimmy Breslin or Mike Royko. Those kinds of guys. They spent lots of time in bars and talking to low life people.

He aggressively denied the perp his cell phone

Perhaps another possibility is that he was kinda buzzed, having a good time and was annoyed that someone would come in and wreck that good time.

I don’t carry when I’m drinking. I’d assume most people don’t or shouldn’t. So probably not an option for many bar patrons. I’d have given him my stuff. Not worth the risk otherwise.

It is also possible the guy was “trashed” drunk and didn’t really understand what was going on.

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Originally posted by frayedends:
I don’t carry when I’m drinking. I’d assume most people don’t or shouldn’t. So probably not an option for many bar patrons. I’d have given him my stuff. Not worth the risk otherwise.

This is my sentiment.

I watched it twice.


In my mind I see this going through his head:





Link to original video: https://youtu.be/kxDhhIwULF4

"Fuck you, I'm Millwall!"

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
It is also possible the guy was “trashed” drunk and didn’t really understand what was going on.

That would explain lighting an already lit cigarette.

The guy might also have learned he has rapidly metasticizing stage four lung cancer and a life insurance policy that pays triple if he's murdered.

Or to paraphrase Sgt. Dan Mills, Princess of Wales Royal Regiment, about Major Ken Tait, one of the Territorial Army guys out with Y Company, PWRR, at the tip of the spear in Al Anbar, Iraq in 2005.

The Sniper Platoon is preparing to fight their way out of a well executed ambush when Tait says in his steely Glaswegian growl "Ah, Danny, wait a sec, mate..." and proceeds to light a Benson & Hedges cigarette. Mills decided it wasn't bravado, Tait simply needed a smoke.

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The guy might also have learned he has rapidly metasticizing stage four lung cancer and a life insurance policy that pays triple if he's murdered.

Ok whose the doll who is getting the money? You write film noir plots??

I’ll take blackout drunk for $100.

Would have been classic if a reporter asked what he's doing next... I'm going to Disney World, Dorian or not.

Or the guy is a psychopathic serial murder.....

DAM-----was so hoping to see him draw a 1911 and just headshot the thug! Guy is totally unaware of the others would have been easy.