# You got knocked the f\*&% out! (Pizza store robbery goes wrong) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490 "2008-07-14T20:31:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/1 "2008-07-14T20:31:11Z")
[Fox story with link to video](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381402,00.html). Would be robber goes into a pizza joint and tries to smack the teenaged clerk around. Robber gets beaten unconcious. Props to 17 year old Rudy Sandoval. He should be able to convert this incident into tail for months to come. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/2 "2008-07-14T20:38:08Z")
I love the picture that page opens with. Criminals. . . if you’re gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/3 "2008-07-14T21:02:06Z")
_Denton! Denton! Rah rah rah!_ Very nice story - fair warmed the cockles of my heart. ([Better video here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=277vR3YLgfE)) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/4 "2008-07-14T21:05:42Z")
Denton-The Home of Happiness. Unless you rob pizza places. ---
**Author:** ![trupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trupa)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/5 "2008-07-14T22:34:57Z")
Don’t mess with Texas Pizza clerks! -woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/6 "2008-07-15T00:49:54Z")
I can’t help but wonder what the guy expected when he robbed a Pizza Patron… based on the neighborhoods where I see them, I’m not surprised that they have some hard-core ass kicking employees. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/7 "2008-07-15T01:09:07Z")
[Nelson]Ha-ha![/Nelson] ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/8 "2008-07-15T04:14:15Z")
Ahh, rich, greasy justice! I dub this the Texas Pizza Massacre. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/9 "2008-07-15T05:53:32Z")
Marley… if it was a franchise store… we could call it it the Texas chain zaa massacre! FML ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/10 "2008-07-15T13:39:56Z")
Excellent! (though I’ll bet a month’s rent, the would-be robber will file a lawsuit suing the kid, and/or the pizza place, for the beating :mad:). ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/11 "2008-07-15T14:22:12Z")
Hard to parse exactly what’s going on in the video. I always wish there was audio on these things. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/12 "2008-07-15T14:47:52Z")
[QUOTE=bump] I can’t help but wonder what the guy expected when he robbed a Pizza Patron… based on the neighborhoods where I see them, I’m not surprised that they have some hard-core ass kicking employees. [/QUOTE] I actually know that place, I used to live nearby in undergrad and I used to eat there occasionally back when it was a sandwich shop. You’d be surprised, the neighborhood’s actually fairly decent, probably a mile from the University of North Texas and a quarter mile from Texas Women’s University. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/13 "2008-07-15T15:40:33Z")
More details: The other clerk? The one that opened the till? [That was her father that got dummied, and her husband was driving the getaway vehicle.](http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/wfaa080715_wz_pizzarob2.5932c78d.html) (Her mother is also charged in the robbery.) > [@](#): > > “The man came in and said, ‘Give me the money,’ and I was getting it,” said Stephanie Martinez in a telephone interview Monday. “And then [the other clerk] hit him and knocked him out and knocked off his wig and I dropped the money. I said, ‘Don’t hit him again! That’s my dad!’ Frankly, I’m stunned she isn’t facing charges, too. That must have been _some_ wig. :dubious: I love this story. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/14 "2008-07-15T15:50:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Frankly, I’m stunned she isn’t facing charges, too. My station reported that she hadn’t been involved. There could still be more to the story (of course!) but it seems that Mom & Dad picked up on daughter’s chatter about how well the shop was doing, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/15 "2008-07-15T16:12:09Z")
I know that the DA’s (is that right) decision would be based on more information than we have, but still… I don’t believe for a second that she didn’t know that her father was the bewigged robber when they both had their grubby mitts on the tray full of cash, at the same time. Look at the way she ran for that cash drawer when things got hairy. By her own statement, the robber _spoke_ to her, but she didn’t know it was her father until the wig came off - even though (according to her husband’s testimony) she knew that they were planning a robbery. She was complicit as fuck, I don’t think she should get a walk on that without being tried. Well, I hope at least she doesn’t get a _very_ effusive reference from Pizza Patron, after _Preso Patrono_ gets his thug ass deported. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/16 "2008-07-15T17:18:27Z")
[QUOTE=Mama Zappa] :mad:). [/QUOTE] So you’re half mad and half glad? 😛 And _damn_, that was fun to watch! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/17 "2008-07-15T17:24:13Z")
This is the kind of thing that if it were in a book, the readers would heap scorn saying it was too implausible… :eek: I think lil Stephy was in on it–what a nice family. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/18 "2008-07-15T17:41:42Z")
I think it’s entirely possible that she _might_ not have known it was her father even after he spoke to her simply because of the adrenalin and frenzy involved when such a thing is going on. Needless to say, I’m sure anyone’s first thought isn’t that “Hey, there’s my dad!” but more along the lines of “Of fuck! I hope I don’t get killed!!” ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/19 "2008-07-15T18:32:42Z")
**Larry Mudd** , while I’ll agree that she should be investigated, I’m not as convinced as you are that she **had** to have recognized her father. Let alone that she **had** to be involved. It wouldn’t be the first time that criminally minded people have kept their activities secret from certain family member, esp. children, even if the activities are happening around the uninvolved family member. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-knocked-the-f-out-pizza-store-robbery-goes-wrong/456490/20 "2008-07-16T08:30:55Z")
WHOAH…that dude got F\*\*\*ED UP!