Knife beats Gun: SF doughnut shop owner fights off robber

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(04-08) 13:44 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A man who runs a doughnut shop with his wife in San Francisco's Sunnydale neighborhood fought off an armed robber in a scuffle that left him and the attacker injured early Monday, police said.

The couple who run Happy Donut on Bayshore Boulevard at Sunnydale Avenue opened their doors at 3 a.m. as usual, and a man entered the shop soon after, said police spokesman Officer Gordon Shyy. "They thought it was a customer," he said.

Instead, the man brandished a handgun and told one of the owners, a 59-year-old woman, to hand over money.

Her husband, 61, heard the commotion from the back of the shop, "comes out front and sees the suspect with a firearm in hand to his wife's head," Shyy said.

The husband grabbed a knife, fought with the robber and was shot in the arm, Shyy said. The assailant was stabbed and ran west on Sunnydale, police said. He remains at large.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/SF-doughnut-shop-owner-fights-off-robber-4418597.php

[onehandle]

1. NRA bullshit and gun culture makes criminals think they are Dirty Harry too.

Not just 'good guys.'

A gun does not make you Superman.

You can be taken down.

[rmax]

2. I'll take a knife over a gun any day. Most people with guns don't want to fire them.

With a knife you can inflict non-lethal, but painful, wounds to disable an assailant. You don't have to kill them. With a gun it's 50/50 if you'll kill them. I'll take the knife.

[meow2u3]

3. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun...

...is a good guy with a donut knife.

Take that, Wacko Wayne!