Who says this still isn’t the wild, wild West? When a man allegedly attempted to rob a Purcell liquor store recently, what did the owner do?
He threw back the F-bomb “¦ and then some.
Butch’s Cork & Bottle owner Butch Kluth was minding his business on a late afternoon in the small town last week when a man walked in and demanded he turn over all the earnings in the register, The Norman Transcript reported.
Apparently, there was no Robert Redford to back up this Butch.
“F— you,” Kluth said he shot back, according to the story.
That must’ve caused some bewilderment.
“What do you mean, ‘F— you?’ Give me all your money,” the would-be robber fired back, the story reported.
Apparently before the store owner could offer any education on that matter, Kluth said the intruder reached into his pants as if he had a gun. So he whipped out his own Smith-Wesson 357, pointed it at the man and told him to get out, according to the Transcript.
So “¦ actions really do speak louder than words. After botching a grab for the weapon, the man ran out, Kluth said.
The 63-year-old entrepreneur followed the man to a Mustang (of the non-animal variety), firing a shot to hit the tire, according to the report. He missed, nailing the front fender, instead. (Maybe, Kid, he never shot a car before?)
No matter ” police caught up with the driver and arrested him on a complaint of first-degree robbery. No word on if he had been en route to Bolivia. As for Kluth? He claimed to be unshaken.
“I was a little feared for my life, but “¦ I didn’t think about it,” he said, the Transcript reported. “Things like that happen.”
Yeah, but don’t you usually want to ride a bike afterward and sing “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”?
This article appears in May 9-15, 2007.