Less than two hours after picking out a man in a police lineup who held up his drugstore, pharmacist Mike Donohue was being robbed.
Again.
The new robber's face was hidden under the hood of a bulky black sweatshirt. He rocked back and forth anxiously, with his right hand planted in his pocket.
Like the other five robbers who had held up Donohue's store before, the man demanded OxyContin, a popular painkiller known for its high abuse potential.
"My technician came back and showed me the note that said, 'Give me your OxyContin. I have a gun,' " Donohue said.
nstead of handing over the drugs, Donohue unholstered the Glock 19 handgun he wore beneath his white lab coat and sprinted to the front of the small pharmacy.
The pharmacist pointed the firearm loaded with 15 hollow-point rounds at the head of the hooded man.
"Down!" Donohue yelled.
The would-be robber dashed out the door, with the pistol-packing pharmacist giving chase. Surveillance video cameras captured the entire incident.
<snip>... When he started his career two decades ago, Donohue said, he never imagined having to wear a gun or put bullet-resistant glass on his store windows to keep any shots he fires at robbers from breaking through and hitting someone walking by.
The pharmacist's methods may be unorthodox but he says they are working: Since Donohue pulled a gun, the robbers have not come back.
That's from CNN.com. Sometimes just the possibility that the pharmacist might be packing heat is enough to keep the pharmacy from bein robbed.