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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nChief Tango sends us a link to the story of Curtis Jackson<\/a>, a sanitation worker and former Marine who thwarted a convenience store robbery;<\/p>\n “I noticed a gentleman with his hand, at first; I didn’t know what it was. I saw him just like this pointing what appeared to be a weapon at the cashier. I thought it was a weapon, I thought it was a gun,” Jackson said.<\/p>\n Without so much as a second to think, the 44-year-old quickly and quietly weaved through the 7-Eleven’s aisles and snuck up behind the would be thief.<\/p>\n “I just crept down, came this way, and I walked and I saw him and I ran up on him and I just grabbed what I thought was the weapon and shook it away,” Jackson said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Luckily, the thief, Nicholas Mecina, wasn’t armed, he had a tube of lip balm or a magic marker that he held as if it was a gun, but, neither Jackson nor the clerk knew it at the time. Mecina is homeless and has a long history of encounters with the justice system.<\/p>\n “I just wanted to stop what was going on. I didn’t want to get shot. I didn’t want my partner to get shot. I didn’t want the cashier to get shot. I just wanted everyone to go home safe,” Jackson said. “I don’t feel like a hero, I just feel like I did something that should have been done.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n