{"id":65162,"date":"2016-04-09T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65162"},"modified":"2016-04-09T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T12:09:00","slug":"phillip-brooks-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65162","title":{"rendered":"Phillip Brooks saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, one of our feel good stories included one from a Waffle House in Fayetteville, North Carolina where a youngster tried to rob the restaurant with what was being described as an AK-47 rifle. CCO sends us a link to the latest on that story; it was 70-year-old Vietnam veteran Phillip Brooks who thwarted the robbery, according to WRAL<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Brooks said, however, that he immediately realized the AK-47 the would-be robber was brandishing wasn’t real.<\/p>\n

“This thing was wood almost all the way up to the end of the barrel. No trigger guard, no trigger,” he said. “All the working parts were missing, so I just told the girls, ‘Don’t give him anything. That’s a fake gun.'”<\/p>\n

“Well, I’m for real,” the robber said as he swung around and pointed the weapon at Brooks.<\/p>\n

“I showed him how real I was,” Brooks said Friday with a chuckle. “I hit him in the nose with my cane.”<\/p>\n

The two then engaged in a bizarre duel, using a cane and a phony firearm.<\/p>\n

“He kept batting it away with the barrel of the rifle, and I kept batting the barrel of the rifle away,” Brooks said.<\/p>\n

Other customers then jumped in and chased the robber out of the restaurant. Fayetteville police are still searching for him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr Brooks says that he was in Vietnam so he got to see a lot of AK-47s – he knows what a real one looks like. Fayetteville is right outside the Fort Bragg main gate, so it’s probably a bad idea to use a fake gun to commit a crime there anyway.<\/p>\n