Stunt man turned salon owner shoots robber.

[Mugu]

A would-be robber, “picked the wrong business and the wrong cowboy to mess with,” when he entered a Phoenix storefront and pulled out a gun.

That’s because Rodd Wolff leads a double life. He is a movie stuntman. In training for roles in films like “Rambo III”, “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and “Miracle at Sage Creek”, Wolff had to be able to shoot a gun while riding a horse. He got a chance to put those cowboy skills to use in the unlikely setting of the business he owns, a hair salon.

Wolff, his wife and three clients were inside Hair Productions at 25 Street and Indian School Road about 3:30 Tuesday afternoon when the suspect walked in wearing a wig and dark sunglasses. Because of previous crimes at nearby businesses, Wolff had established a code word his employees would use in the event of a robbery.

He was in a back room when he heard his wife utter the code word three times. As the robber moved further into the salon, Wolff removed a gun that had been wrapped in a towel and ordered the man to drop his gun. When he did not comply, Wolff fired three shots, striking the suspect.


Read the rest of the article at:
http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/12n-0318salonrobber-CR.html

I love stories with happy endings.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Smart plan

to have a code word. Glad the crook was apprehended.

[virginia mountainman]

2. Outstanding!

[RB TexLa]

3. I'd have done it to protect my wife, but if it were just me and customers

that would have been my last day breathing. No way in hell do I shoot someone to save myself.

[tachyon]

4. You don't believe in self-defense?

:wtf:

I REALLY don't get -that-. :eyes:

[RB TexLa]

5. I know a person who did it. It's affected him his entire life, no way I'm risking going through

that.

[tachyon]

8. Well, to each his own I guess...I'd a hell of a lot rather feel guilty than dead.

:eyes:

[Mugu]

9. I don't understand your feelings either,

but it doesn't matter if I understand or not. It's only important that you have thought it through and clearly you have. I don't want to harm anybody and I try to conduct my life in such a manner as to limit the possibilities of armed conflict. But, I decided a long time ago that I will defend myself if necessary and the older I get the more ornery I get. The good thing is that unless you put a sign in front of your house the bad guys have no way to know which of us is which.

Regards, Mugu

[I work for workers]

6. Not shooting the guy to protect clients when you have the option

sounds like bad customer service to me...

[LostinVA]

12. I'm sorry you don't value your life, or your wife, enough to defend yourself

[RB TexLa]

14. I would defend my wife's life. I have something to gain in doing that

but, I'm not going to risk going through what the person I know has gone through if there is nothing to be gained for me.

[LostinVA]

15. What I meant is, your wife probably would like to keep you alive

I don't know why you wouldn't consider that a good reason to protect yourself.

I would defend my life, both for myself, and because I wouldn't want to leave my wife a widow.

[uppityperson]

17. I'd give someone all my money/belongings, not shoot them.

Most robberies don't involve murder also. I'd not shoot someone who only wanted my stuff.

[Mugu]

19. The problem is that you have no way to know what the perps intent is.

And if you're not armed you don't have any other option anyway.

Regards, Mugu

[uppityperson]

20. So you wouldn't shoot somone until they were actually trying to kill you?

Not because they were just robbing you, since you wouldn't know their intent yet?

[Mugu]

23. Your interpretation of my post is the exact opposite of my intent.

[uppityperson]

27. So do you mean that because you don't know their intent, you'll just shoot and kill them?

Since that is the opposite of what I wrote? Don't wait to see what their intent is, but kill them?

[Mugu]

31. It would be a very bad plan to come to my home or place of business

and have me get so much as a hint that the intent was mischief. I will not give up my valuables without a fight if I believe that I can prevail.

[uppityperson]

32. delete. Not worth it

[Mugu]

34. Also delete, agreed.

[uppityperson]

37. We have other things to work on, not bickering here.

It takes all kinds of people to make the world work, and, so long as you are basically a decent person, we work together. Peace.

[Mugu]

38. Very much agree.

Cheers, Mugu

[Mike Daniels]

35. Once someone pulls a gun in the commission of a crime all bets are off

Once a perp pulls a gun in the commission of the crime they have proven that their minimum intent is to intimidate through the threat of violence.

At that point, they have sacrificed any benefit of the doubt anyone owes them and if they catch a bullet that's one less waste of life society has to worry about.

[RB TexLa]

21. I'm not giving anyone my money. I don't even like giving people my money when I'm buying something

I want.

[uppityperson]

22. Didn't say I like it, but I'd rather do that than live with having killed someone.

[Pavulon]

28. Except that one in CH where they shot the girl, and that other..

etc.. Gun in possession in my home, approaching car, etc is intent.

I would not shoot a person in my driveway stealing my car. Once they cross the line into my home new rules apply.

You do not enter a persons home without intent.

[uppityperson]

33. Except for that one in (pick a place) where they just got robbed...

I've got those stories too, including close friends who were robbed at home and not shot. I would give someone all my stuff rather than kill them. But hey, that's just me.

[villager]

7. Man opens fire at Santa Maria junk yard, shoots and kills 4

You forgot some other gun headlines, today.

http://www.pe.com/ap_news/California/CA_Junk_Yard_Killings_332517C.shtml

[Mugu]

10. Didn't forget, didn't see it until you posted it.

A very sad story.

Regards, Mugu

[RadioactiveCarrot]

11. Wow.

Some of the comments to that article...

You can almost smell the high school locker room through the screen, for all the bravado and bullshit.

[SteveM]

16. Other than the smell of sweat socks, what's wrong with the store-owner's actions?

[RadioactiveCarrot]

30. Nothing is wrong with 'his' actions.

I seem to have replied to the wrong part. Meant to reply to the OP. Oops!

There's some nasty stuff in the comments to the article in the OP link.

[SteveM]

39. Don't worry, I've done the same.

[virginia mountainman]

18. Some more gun headlines today..

Intruder Shot During A Frightening Home Invasion

http://www.kutv.com/content/news/topnews/story.aspx?content_id=98dfdfdd-3368-441c-9a7f-16ec9ea106f5

[villager]

36. And from Virginia Beach: Beach police seek gunman; at least 2 shot

http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-now-beachshooting-0319,0,4584032.story

Seems many more weren't "protected" by guns, than the alternative...

[pitohui]

13. three cheers for a good plan well executed

if it was up to me, i'd give the dude a medal, he IS a hero, who knows what the armed robber would have done if not stopped

too many armed robbers kill, that way no witnesses

[guitar man]

24. good

sorry to be crass, but if you walk in somewhere to rob people with a gun and get your ass shot, so be it.

[Mugu]

25. I'm generally against the death penalty.

I make an exception when it is carried out during the commission of the crime.

Regards, Mugu

[guitar man]

26. me too

it's a horrible thing to have to pull one's weapon and shoot someone when they come after you, your loved one's and other innocents like what happened in this case. The only thing more horrible I could imagine would be finding oneself in that same situation without the means to do so.

[opihimoimoi]

29. I would be aiming for his manly parts,,,,that way he don die but will have a hard time fuckn