Store manager tells robber Jesus wouldn't approve
AP
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -A cell phone store manager in South Florida dissuaded an armed man from robbing the store by telling him Jesus wouldn't approve.
Instead of panicking when the suspect pulled a weapon, Nayara Goncalves started talking with him. He was jobless, and the 20-year-old Christian offered to connect him with friends who could help him find work.
She said she believed the man when he said he attended church and wasn't a bad person. She told him the answer to his financial problems wasn't in the cash register.
Then, the clerk nudged him with a little sin of her own. She said the store would hold her responsible for any cash he stole.
Goncalves said, "I just wanted to remind him that he knew better."
Boy, this lady sure was playing Robbery Russian Roulette. She took a chance in thinking she'd found one of the few Christian robbers who could be shamed into not going through with a crime. Conveiniently for her this guy didn't have a little devil on his shoulder telling him that he was already going to be arrested for pulling a weapon on a store owner so he might as well go the extra mile. Besides all he has to do is ask Jesus for forgiveness after robbing the place and he's absolved. Obviously this guy doesn't understand things as well as Delmar from 'O Brother Where Art Thou.
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