My Encounter With A DACOIT

Hi I am Manju… I am doing my masters and in the mean time I work part-time in a store called CVS Pharmacy, I am a cashier.

My encounter with that thief was on January 1, 2009. It was around 4:30 in the evening, it was very beautiful weather outside. All the people were tired after celebrating their new year’s party, and there were not much people in the store. I was the only one who was cashiering in the store and two other managers who were busy doing some work inside the office. We cashiers are usually told to call second cashier if there are more than 3 people in the line waiting. I saw four customers waiting in the line and called my manager to help me out.

The dacoit was the second one in the line. He was a tall white guy about 6ft 3in, 45-50 yrs, wearing a dark brown leather jacket, khaki pants and with a red hat on and holding an envelope in his hand. The customer who was in front of the dacoit came to me and I started ringing him up and my manager called that guy (the dacoit). On his way the dacoit grabbed a Tide detergent and came to my manager. While my manager started to ring him up,

The Dacoit said, “Hi, how are you doing today?”

Manager replied, “Am good what about you…”

The dacoit leaned over the table and said, “I have the F*****G GUN in my jacket and I need all the F*****G MONEY you have in your register, and don’t even think of shouting” and then he took out the gun and my manager was in his gun point.

My manager gave him the money from his register without talking a word and stuffed all the money in the dacoit’s envelope. My eyes accidentally caught the scene, that time the gun man pointed towards me and asked the manager to give him more money from my register. Then my manager gave him all the money from my register too.

Then the dacoit said, “And now don’t call the f*****g cops until I am gone…” and he left the scene.

As soon as he left my manager tucked out his shirt and with is face red kept saying only one word f**k and he ran to call the police. I didn’t know what to do and I followed the dacoit up to the door and I saw him backing up his elevated Chevy pick up truck. And I typed down his license plate number in my cell phone. My manager was on the phone talking to 911. The cops arrived in less than 5 minutes. They had all the electronic gadgets and with their laptops. They were asking us for the description of the man and in the mean time I gave them his license plate number which I had typed it down. The cops entered his number and with in a flash they gathered all his information, address… That guy was involved in crime many times and has served in jail for 3 times. That guy had also robbed many other stores in last 3 days and they were looking for him without much information about him. In this case the license plate number helped a lot and the cops and my managers were very thankful to me..!! Everyone in the store started appreciating my job and moreover I am a very shy person in nature. Guess what my condition would be in that time..?!!

Finally, the cops said they caught him. The under cover cops were waiting for him near his house before that Dacoit had even reached to his own house! They had caught him in 1 hour. Everyone was happy and exited to hear this news and this was very thrilling experience I ever had in my life.

I hope you guys who read this have felt the heat of an encounter with a DACOIT…

-Matka