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69-year-old man saves bank and jobless would-be robber with kind words and a hug
The bank is one where Armus knows all the tellers, but instead of greeting him with the usual smiles, this time, he was met with looks of concern. Armus then noticed a man in the bank who had his face covered with his shirt. “I seen that the way he was talking, he was getting irritated. He said, ‘I don’t want to hurt anybody,’” Armus said.
But Armus said he also saw something else in Plasencia that made him approach. “He seemed to be depressed the way he was talking, so… I said, ‘What’s wrong? You don’t have a job?’ He said, ‘There’s nothing in this town for me. I just want to go to prison,’” Armus said.
Armus says he tried to comfort Plasencia and asked if they could step outside. “So, I took him outside, and I give the man a hug right here at the doors. He started crying,” Armus said. “Then, I stepped away from him, and swoop, here come all the cops – no sirens, just lights everywhere, rifles out, ‘Get on the ground!’”
“The ladies were all worried. The one teller was saying, ‘No, no, not the one in the black shirt,’” Armus said. Police arrested Plasencia for attempted robbery. They say he was not armed like he had claimed.
Armus says he’s thinking of visiting Plasencia in jail, adding that he recognized the man as a friend of his daughter from decades ago. “Love overcomes all things. People don’t realize that. Try to be kind to somebody. It makes a difference,” he said.
