Today at 4 pm a robbery was committed at in a convenience store parking lot but the tables were turned on the robber thanks to the action of the victim, Michele Schipper.
Schipper had just pulled into a parking space on the side of a convenience store on Bonneville Drive and had turned around to reach into her car to get her purse when a man leaped out from behind a dumpster and demanded her purse. Schipper faked compliance and when the man approached turned around kicked the mugger in the groin as well as, in her own words, “gave him a roundhouse to the nose”. As Schipper heard crunching and saw blood spurting, a likely sign that she had broken his nose, she quickly reentered her car and drove a motel down the street to call the police.
“I was very, really indignant” Schipper said while recalling her reactions. “Why, you know, just because he wanted my purse, why should he have it?” Schipper stated that there was only $10 in her purse and that she probably wouldn’t do the same thing if she was put in the situation again. Schipper also claimed that her parents would be “very angry she fought back.” She accounted her strength to working with her father who is involved with weight lifting, boxing and other physical activities.
Schipper described the man as being six feet tall and not being armed form what she could tell. She says that the clerks did not see the robbery and that no one else were parked around her and the robbery only lasted a second. When speaking to the police, Schipper said the last time she saw the robber he was “On the ground”. The police have yet to find the robber.
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I chose this story as well. I like how you ended that the police haven't found the robber yet. I don't think that she knew the man jumped out from behind the dumpster though. She just assumed it when asked.
ReplyDeleteI also chose this story. Overall, I think you did a good job of including all of the facts. The only thing I did different was to call it a "would-be" robbery - as she was the victim of an attempted robbery because in the end he didn't get her purse. I think you need to be careful about calling him a robber or a mugger until he is proven guilty in a court of law. According to the facts, we only have one side of the story.
ReplyDeleteGood summary of the details. I would perhaps have taken out a few of the unnecessary words in the quotes such as the "why, you know," part- it seems a bit awkward, but that's personal preference.
ReplyDeleteI like your choice of quotes, especially “I was very, really indignant” Schipper said while recalling her reactions. “Why, you know, just because he wanted my purse, why should he have it?” because it sums up quite nicely what many people who have been mugged go through - the rush of adrenaline that allows them to do something no one would expect them to do. Then you also added that the mugger was 6' tall. That part made me appreciate the spunk of the interviewee.
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