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Jamieson: Staring Down A Gun Barrel

Posted by DFO

Feb. 19, 2009 1:08 p.m. • 11 comments

All it takes is a masked man walking into a store with a gun. In that instant, your life really does flash before you. It happened at Queen Anne’s Bartell drugstore at First Avenue North, early last Thursday around 2:45 a.m., as Seattle slept. About a half-dozen patrons were inside. At the checkout aisle, I chatted with the manager for a few minutes and turned for the exit. That’s when a short man — a blur in dark clothing — cycloned inside. He wore a gray hoodie, gloves and had a black mask across his face. He said nothing at first — and didn’t have to. The object in his right hand, raised slightly in my direction, said it all. “Gun!” I yelled. Patrons stampeded for the door/Robert L. Jamieson Jr., Seattle PI. More here.

Question: Have you ever been robbed at gunpoint?

11 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Stickman on February 19 at 3:57 p.m.
Yes, three times back in the day when I was young and raising my family. I worked in a liquor store, and each time gave him everything in the till and went on with things. The owner had a camera, but never any film in it.
Cabbage Boy on February 19 at 4:04 p.m.
No, just by the gov’t.
danofthecommunity on February 19 at 4:44 p.m.
Yea…one had a gun and one had a knife as I recall…I may remember a few more of the details at blogfest…if it’s still going late enough in the afternoon that I can get there.
fortboise on February 19 at 7:00 p.m.
Your “more” link points to the author’s picture, rather than his story.
DFO on February 19 at 7:34 p.m.
Fort Boise; thanx, the link is fixed.
Bent on February 20 at 6:22 p.m.
Never robbed at gun point, but I have stared down a couple of barrels during my life as a repoman in college…

On those occassions I would back down and let the man know that I wasn’t interested in losing my life over a car.

But as soon as I got to my car I called the police and pressed for assult with a dealy weapon charges. Then I offered to drop the charges if the gun owner released the car…

Worked ever time.

Now the Carlin Bay guy who came after me with a screwdriver is whole different story… And there was the guy who burried (or flattened) his brand new Z-28 camero in the heart of Freeman country in eastern Montana…Oh the list goes on.

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.