[FirearmFan]

When I was in college, 10 years ago, I worked part time at a store called Computer City. We use to get people with forged checks all the time and got pretty good at spotting them. Well one time a guy comes in, loads a cart with roughly 4 grand worth of stuff and tries to buy. The clerk spots the bad check and stalls while he gets the manager and calls the state police. We stalled the guy until an officer shows up who promptly tries to escort him out.

Now for those of you who haven't worked in retail when the automatic doors are turned off they can be a pain in th @$$ to open. To make it hard for him to run we had turned the doors off. Well as the officer is escorting the guy out he tries to make a break for it. The officer catches him at the door and tells him to stop or he will mace him. Well the guy doesn't listen and puts up a fight. Out comes the mace and the officer ends up getting both the crook and himself in the face in the small entry area.

The guys takes off running into the parking lot while the officer is incompacitated. Myself and another young guy take off after him. I catch him about 30 yards away, push him into the car and put him into a head lock with half a chicken wing on one arm. The guy is still fighting when my co-worker grabs the other arm which is stuck under him. It now occurs to me how stupid I was because the crook could have had a gun and shot me any time up to this point. I decide that if I'm going to get shot he is going with me and proceed to smack his head into the truck of the car I have him pinned against. The offer shows up with his gun drawn, hands my bud the cuffs and says, "Break his friggin arm if you have to!" We get the cuffs on him and wait while the officer washes the OC out his eyes with water.

It wasn't until 20 minutes later that he could effectively see again. I could only imagine what pain he went through since the officer didn't even offer to give him water.