Bystander Stops Jewelry Heist By Crashing Thieves' Getaway Car Into Jewelry Store

There's much than 1 measurement to stop a robbery. Hopping successful nan moving getaway car and crashing it into nan shop that's getting robbed isn't nan first measurement I'd deliberation of, but that's what happened at Gold Rush Jewelers in Petaluma, California, reports ABC7 News.

Police opportunity six suspects stormed nan store, wielding hammers, capsicum spray, and a firearm. They allegedly started smashing nan jewelry cases and stealing their contents while holding labor astatine gunpoint. That's erstwhile an anonymous passer-by saw what was happening and decided to do thing astir it.

He said nan suspect's getaway car was idling retired front, truthful he jumped into action.
"I went complete to return nan keys retired of car and noticed it was still running. I couldn't do nothing, because it was a cardinal fob. I rammed nan car into nan building to extremity them and fundamentally did. Cause 2 of em' sewage caught," he said.

The clang smashed overmuch of nan storefront, arsenic good arsenic a tile pillar. The suspects were understandably amazed astatine this abrupt move of events. They decided it was clip to leave, piling into nan wrecked getaway car to make their flight aft pepper-spraying nan man who had intervened. 

Police captured 2 18-year-old suspects who fled nan segment connected foot, truthful nan smash-into-the-store-with-the-car strategy was astatine slightest partially successful. The remaining 4 suspects drove nan damaged car a short region earlier it stopped, starring them to fly connected ft arsenic well. So far, they look to person made disconnected pinch nan jewels, but constabulary are still looking for them. None of nan jewelry shop labor was harmed successful nan heist aliases nan clang that ended it.

As bully arsenic nan bystander's intentions were, I do mobility his methods. From ABC7 News:

"That's wild. Very brave of them. Maybe not nan champion thought — drawback a getaway car and ram into nan store," said Markus Hakkarainen.

Brave is 1 measurement to put it. Police would apt show you not to get progressive astatine all, particularly erstwhile nan robbers were intelligibly armed. Another thought might've been to simply thrust nan car away. That would person forced each nan thieves to flight connected foot, perchance expanding their chances of getting caught. It's besides worthy reiterating that driving a car into a shop puts nan employees' information astatine consequence excessively — not conscionable nan robbers. 

Petaluma constabulary person not said thing astir nan bystander's actions, truthful we don't cognize whether he'll beryllium charged aliases praised for what he did (and nan other spot harm he caused). Vigilante justice might look heroic, but we mostly urge leaving nan policing to nan police, and occasionally the snowplows.