Armed Robbery; Cowards, face me again.

IMO, the best policy is to give in and give them what they want. F pride, give them what they want and be on your way. Your life is not worth $50 or whatever you've got in your wallet.

Could not have said it better. Nothing in life is more valuable then your life. Without it everything else is useless.

angry - glad to hear you guys are ok.

You make a strong case if the guns were real.

You never know if they are. Even if you know (which I seriously doubt 99.9% of the population could in that situation), do they have a friend waiting around the corner with a real gun? Do they have knives? I'm with SGG on this one.

Sorry to hear that man. I am assuming everyone is OK.

To answer your question of "but over what". You're right, it is just a pack of cigs...for now. The NEXT time, and YES, there WILL BE a next time, they will get braver, and they could hurt someone, or even kill someone. I'd rather see two thugs like that get killed, then to see any innocent person get hurt for any reason. Our system won't correct them, but vigalante justice would.
I know that sounds harsh, but if we don't stop it, who will? Just like what I've said many times before, if someone broke into my house, I shoot first, ask questions later...you may ask "was it worth their life", I'd say absolutely.

But what if it's someone you know? My friend's brother was away at college and didn't have a key to the house and at the middle of the night he practically broke in. Granted, it wasn't the smartest thing for his brother to do instead of just calling and waking everyone up, but my friend was startled and kicked the shit out of him only to realize it was his brother.

Now if he had had a gun. Who knows what would've happened.

In reponse to all of you, yes we are both OK. My buddy spent the entire day trying to get a new drivers license. I am glad that we reacted the way that we did. Dymamite, yes we could have killed them, but I am glad that we didn't. As it turns out in that situation, they have more rights than we do. Had we injured or killed them, they could have gotten off and sued us, as long as they never fired a shot. We learned this from my buddy's father-in-law, who is a PG county cop.

In retrospect we did the right thing. The cops pulled the videotape from both the establishment we were at, and the 7-eleven that we went to. They ran the tags from the vehicle description that I gave them (which happened to be present at both locations). The culprits were caught. My friends wallet was tossed out their window and could not be found. We have no word on whether or not the weapons were real. It is in our best intrest to believe that they were.

In the end we lost nothing, and gained a headache, which is more welcomed than death. More than likely, they will recieve fair punishment.

My buddy pulled in his driveway one night and when he got out of his truck he had two guys standing in front of him with a gun. They told him to turn over all his money and he reach into his front pockets pulling the inside out and said if I had money do you think I would live in this neighborhood. The two guys got this look on them as to think he was right and just ran off. My buddy then said he had $450.00 in his wallet from some rent he had just collected.

My buddy pulled in his driveway one night and when he got out of his truck he had two guys standing in front of him with a gun. They told him to turn over all his money and he reach into his front pockets pulling the inside out and said if I had money do you think I would live in this neighborhood. The two guys got this look on them as to think he was right and just ran off. My buddy then said he had $450.00 in his wallet from some rent he had just collected.

Smart guy!

Smart guy!

Unless they say "Empty your wallet, too."