Staff at Kitchener, Ont. business thwart attempted robbery
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“Nope this isn’t going to happen today, that’s not how it’s going to go down,” employee Mallory Robinson recalls thinking.
Mallory Robinson says it was “a little more than [she] was expecting” when she arrived at work Wednesday morning.
Robinson was in her family’s store, Connect Equipment, on Huron Road near Trussler Road in Kitchener, when she says two shoplifters tried to take off with around $5,000 worth of tools like chainsaws and quick-cuts.
It happened around 11 a.m. and the entire incident was captured on security cameras.
“They had product in their hands and they were running as fast as they could out the front door,” Robinson said. “So I started screaming for all the guys, yelling ‘You’re not going to rob us!’ And I’m running out after them and all the guys are following behind me.”
Robinson and around five other employees chased the men out the door as they jumped into a car.
She says she was determined not to let them get away.
“It’s a family owned business, I’m part of the family, my father is the manager here and it just wasn’t going to happen – that’s what was going through my head – nope this isn’t going to happen today, that’s not how it’s going to go down,” Robinson said.
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