US Sikh store-owner fights off armed robber with slipper
Saturday, 19/12/2015
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NEW YORK: A slipper can be mightier than a gun in the hands of a valiant Sikh store-owner!
In a feat caught on surveillance cameras, 59-year-old Amrik Singh fought off a shotgun-wielding masked robber using only his slipper in the store at his petrol station in Staatsburg, 150 km from New York City.
“I’m not really a hero,” Amrik said on Friday about Tuesday’s slipper-shotgun face-off. “And I would not want to be a hero. I am just a working man.” Singh, who immigrated to the US from Moga 35 years ago and has owned the Citgo petrol station and store for 19 years, said he did not have a strategy or a conscious plan to confront the gunman.
“But God told my body to grab the man as he reached for the tray in the cash register,” he said. “When the gunman jumped back, I threw the slipper and hit him on the nose,” Singh said. “I ran and caught him and we were like wrestling.” Laughing, the turbanwearing Singh said: “He did not expect an old man to fight him. He ran outside and I chased him. He fired a shot at my feet, but it missed and hit the ground and he drove away.”
