How many of you stop at convenience stores on the way home,...after all they are convenience stores intended for us to quickly stop and get something we may have forgotten at the grocery store the other day,...or to get a lottery ticket,....
How many of you actually scan the parking lot and look into the store to see what is going on before you exit your vehicle and enter the store? If not, then start doing so now.
A vehicle running near the store, especially not parked "front in"; absence of store clerks or presence of people hanging around the cash register counter without merchandise in their hands; "customers" looking nervous and scanning around; customers wearing hoods and or hands in pockets;.....all could be indicators of a robbery in progress.
Don't walk into a store if you can't see the clerk(s) and if the clerks do not appear to be normal. Abnormal is a clerk staring at a "customer" and seemingly frozen, or quickly opening the till and handing money to the robbers.
If you see something like this, your roll is to be nothing more than a good witness; get back into or stay in your car; make note (if you can) of the vehicle make, model and license plate and any description of the robbers. Staying in your vehicle and exiting the area is the best choice.
Don't try and follow the robbers, just note their general direction. The below video was a store robbery caught on CCTV, so you can see what goes on in that store and the potential for someone getting hurt. Do not place yourself in this situation.
I agree! When I go to the 7-11 if you will and park I stay for a couple of seconds in the vehicle to scan my environment (military 101).
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