Smart move! A video of a Los Angeles man playing smart by tossing his expensive watch over a fence to avoid being stolen by armed robbers has got people praising him for his smart thinking. If not he wasn’t smart, his watch would have been with the robbers by now.
The Daily Mail got more;
A man in Los Angeles may have just stumbled upon an innovative new way to avoid being burglarized. Instead of fighting off a would-be robbery attempt with a gun, pepper spray, or hand-to-hand combat, he simply made a run for it, using a parked car as a decoy, before taking off his jewelry and throwing it over the fence of a residential home.
Surveillance footage recently captured the entire occurrence in a suburban neighborhood in Los Angeles. The victim, a bearded man wearing sunglasses and a handbag, was approached by a grey Sedan, before two perpetrators leaped out of the vehicle and ran toward him, in an effort to commit a mugging.
The victim, wearing a duffle bag over a black Givenchy t-shirt and dark sunglasses, takes off his lavish watch while running away from the two robbers in flip flops – before deciding to throw it over the fence of a home from the sidewalk.
However, the victim’s uncanny response caused confusion on the part of the robbers as one of them motioned towards the fence for a brief moment, to ascertain whether or not he should climb over it, in order to recover the victim’s jewelry, before rushing back to the getaway car with his associate. Shortly thereafter, the robbers did manage to steal the victim’s handbag, for their troubles. Since then, no arrests have been made related to the incident.
The two unidentified suspects stop chasing the man after realizing he no longer has the watch on him. One of them then puts his hands on the gate, seemingly wanting to climb it to collect the expensive accessory, before running back to the car along with the other robber.
Security footage then shows the victim approaching the getaway car and exchanging words with the perpetrators and gesturing at them.
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