tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664970872027561554.post4276970782038273907..comments2023-10-08T08:53:45.599-04:00Comments on Crazy Shenanigans: The Good GuysCrazy Shenanigans-JMOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494603714481735184noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664970872027561554.post-17810852157516723992015-06-28T04:52:06.197-04:002015-06-28T04:52:06.197-04:00wow, I don't know. I was working in an Eckard ...wow, I don't know. I was working in an Eckard Drug store in 1979 when I was 19 at the cosmetics counter and 2 gunmen with ski masks came in 2 minutes until closing. We had those movable gates that were made out of metal, they jumped over them.. one came str8 to me and stuck a 38. revolver to my head while the other ran back to the pharmacist making demands for pain medication. The gunman with me told me as long as I didn't move and did as he said I wouldn't be hurt.. so that's what I did. The other gunman got the medications he asked for and they left the store without further incident. I was calm up until the moment they flew out the door then I kinda fell apart for a moment or two. It was really scary and the guys were caught weeks later right after they had robbed another pharmacy. They had a phone book page in there car with all of the Eckard Drug stores circled that they had already robbed. They made me go to the police department and identify him thru a line up. I remembered the words he said to me and what his hands looked like and I picked him out of 7 men. In my case, the manager and pharmacist followed orders to the T and no one was injured, but it could have been very different if the pharmacist had decided not to follow orders. we could have been shot and killed. I think the Sacramento police Department were in part responsible for these peoples deaths by not following orders. It's a shame, I watched the In an Instant special about it and I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.. I can relate to what these people went through because of course I've been there. I was also almost robbed in a parking lot going into a night club one night a few years later. I ran from the guy when he asked for my purse and ordered me to get into the car. I had lee way though and had the option that night because he was sitting in his car from a distance and facing the other direction from me in his car and I had the chance to run into the club and get away. I WAS LUCKY THESE PEOPLE IN THIS STORE UNFORTUNATELY WERE NOT. It's sad. It's bad enough they couldn't trust the bad guys, that's a given but in these people's cases they couldn't trust the good guys either. to them money was more important I guess than these people's lives. They should have got them the money, or negotiated better and did their damnedest with what they could come up with, these guys as young as they were would have, slipped up and got caught down the line and how many helicopters can fly all the way to Vietnam without gassing up somewhere along the way?? . it's a travesty what happened here...life is a crap shoot, never know do ya?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00625183569120750758noreply@blogger.com