Customer Takes Out Robber

IT'S A NEAR COMIC-BOOK TALE OF THE CAPELESS CRUSADER HUSBAND TAKING DOWN SENISTER THE ALLEGED BANK ROBBER...AND THAT'S THE SUSPECT'S REAL NAME. BY LEAPS A BOUNDS THIS MAN IS A HUSBAND AND A HERO. HE FEARED FOR HIS WIFE'S LIFE WHILE SHE WAS BANKING TUESDAY AND LEAPT ONTO THE WOULD-BE ROBBER'S BACK BEFORE HE COULD HURT ANYONE.

"So, obviously this older gentleman caught him by surprise."

AND THAT HE DID.

YOU CAN SEE THE INCONSPICUOUS MAN GETTING A SNACK AT THE LOBBY POPCORN MACHINE, AS HIS WIFE WAITED IN LINE AT GUARDIAN CREDIT UNION.

BUT WHEN THE SUSPECT, 21-YEAR-OLD SENISTER SMITH, CAME IN THE MAN KNEW SOMETHING WAS UP.

HE GOES TO THE LEFT BUT QUICKLY DEVISES A SNEAK-ATTACK--

TACKLING THE UNSUSPECTING BANK ROBBER TO THE GROUND.

"It's nice to know somebody would do that. To put himself in harm's way to at least protect everybody's interests here (especially his wife?) especially his
wife."

BUT, SHE WAS NO ORDINARY DAMSEL IN DISTRESS.

AT FIRST, THE FRANTIC WIFE PACES IN FRONT OF THE COUNTER FOR HELP, BUT MOMENTS LATER SHE RUNS TO HER HUSBAND'S AID.

...AND PERHAPS IN THE MIDST OF A STRUGGLE...SHE APPEARS TO KICK THE SUSPECT TO HELP KEEP HIM DOWN UNTIL POLICE ARRIVED. SOME BANK EMPLOYEES ALSO HELPED SUBDUE THE SUSPECT. BUT WITHOUT THE HUSBAND'S INITIAL EFFORTS, THERE'S NO TELLING HOW THIS WOULD HAVE ENDED.

DEFINITELY A HERO FOR SOMEBODY TO DO THAT. TODAY'S DAY IN AGE, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. 

AND THE SUSPECT LIKELY THOUGHT IT WAS HAPPENING HIS WAY AT FIRST. HE PACED BACK AND FOURTH AS THE TELLERS ANSWERED THE DEMANDS IN HIS NOTES, GEARING HE HAD A GUN...POLICE SAY THEY EMPTIED ABOUT 8-THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM THEIR DRAWERS BEFORE THE HERO HUSBAND CAME TO THE RESCUE.

TELLER ANTHONY KOREK COULDN'T SPEAK ON CAMERA BUT TOLD US TODAY HE'D LIKE TO THANK THE MAN. OTHER CUSTOMERS APPRECIATE HIM TOO.

"It takes a hero to do that and it takes a lot of guts."