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April 20, 2009

Caveman Hero

Posted at 2:02 pm

…Not just the stuff of GEICO commercials anymore.

I was recently on a business trip 2,670 miles from home when I was surprised to see my relatively small town on nation-wide news. It’s not often a small Georgia town makes national news, and even less often that it makes the news for something remotely praise-worthy. It’s not that I think that little of my place of residence, it’s just the plain and simple truth of the old saying, “if it bleeds it leads.” While there may in fact have been some bleeding in the story, 1- it wasn’t mentioned and 2- it would have been due to injuries sustained by the culprit and completely justified on the part of the customer.

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ACWORTH, Ga. — Police said a would-be robber got more than he bargained for when he tried to rob a Quik Thrift store with a knife. A quick-thinking customer, known only as “Caveman,” grabbed a step ladder and hit the suspect at least once Monday. The customer chased the suspect from the store using the ladder as protection.

Police said the suspect had threatened to cut the store clerk’s neck if money wasn’t handed over. Police said the suspect escaped with some money, but he dropped much of it when he was hit with the ladder.

Police are still searching for the suspect.

(http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1120ap_odd_ladder_thwarts_robber.html)

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I’d like to give a Stewart-Adams-Project-Salute to Mr. Don “Caveman” Smith for standing up to a no good hoodlum and for finding new and ingenious uses for the average household step ladder. Convenience store robbers will have to think twice before stealing from places that are packing step ladders.

So what was his motivation? There are several theories.

1. He had been watching too much WWF and couldn’t find a folding chair…so a step ladder had to do.

2. It’s all a part of the new GEICO viral marketing campaign to encourage people to do the right thing. “Standing up for what’s right – so easy a Caveman can do it.”

3. He had been watching too much WWF and he was fed up with GEICO’s “so easy a Caveman can do it” campaign.

As intriguing as these theories are, they are all wrong. We now know straight from Mr. Smith the reason he was compelled to act:

“There’s a lot of thieving that goes on around here and I don’t like it,” Smith said. “People work for their stuff and they ought to be able to keep it without somebody taking it away from them.”

If you would like, take a second to watch the slide show of Mr. Smith in action…it’s quite inspiring. Also, watching it while listening to the Chariots of Fire theme greatly increases the inspirational value.

http://www.wsbtv.com/slideshow/news/19176925/detail.html

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4 Responses to “Caveman Hero”

  1. Roy Turner Says:
    April 20th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    From now on more store owner will start inviting people who have nothing to live for to their places of work. No better security could be found.

  2. Max Says:
    April 20th, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    Nothing to live for? He lives for justice! He is the bearded knight who watches over Acworth! If only we all had such conviction and stepladder-pummelling skills.

  3. Stewart Says:
    April 20th, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    Step ladders are definitely dangerous…I once saw Jackie Chan break his leg jumping through one.

  4. Zachary Says:
    April 21st, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    this definitly shows the pure awesomeness of people that look like hobos

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