Video: Fearless Gas Station Clerk Grabs Shotgun From Robber

I think someone needs to add that this is a really really bad idea. If someone threatens your life over money, just hand it over! You can earn it back eventually. A shotgun blast to the neck and it's game over, with no quarters left!

One more thing, the story says "it is unclear why he risked his life to protect the gas station"

I find it silly why some people would think that this man disarmed these two crooks to protect the gas station. The mere fact of having a gun stuck in your face should be a clear indication that your life is ALREADY at risk. If someone sticks a gun in my face, not only will I take it away if I can, I am most probably already armed with my own pistol as I have a CCW permit, and I WILL shoot them. Armed robbery first and foremost is a threat to life and limb, property is secondary. This thought process of compliance with robbers equals safety is ludacrous and is based on an erroneous assumption that criminals are "only" interested in stealing the property at hand and the threat of violence is merely a means of obtaining the victims compliance. This line of thinking fails to recongnize the reality that many of these criminals are also engaged in violent crime outside of simple stick ups and most likely already have commited murder, and may enjoy the thrill of taking life. There exists a good probability the assailent is a sociopath or psychopath who derives pleasure from the control they exert over defenseless people and the act of killing them. Further on this point many of them may simple kill the attendant on duty to eliminate the witness as criminals tend to spend a lot of time in jail, and don't want to be caught and put back where they belong.

Too bad he didn't shoot the crooks after taking it away. I for one would not want to be on the wrong side of a Turk. Their ancestors were fierce & fearless warriors. This nonsense doesn't happen out here in pudunk Missouri, too many gas station attendants are armed. New York would have a lot less crime if they stopped infringing on citizens right to keep and BARE arms.

I'd give him a job - If I had a job to give him - sterling work old chap!

Don't mess with the fucking Turks

AWESOME!!!

Didn't we see this same move back in Beverly Hills Cop?

He should've taken a shot at them from a distance. Put a few buckshot in their ass for kicks and giggles.

I believe there is a word for this...

"pwned"

I think if they had a HUMAN EDUCATION they wouldn't be robbing gas stations. I blame Ed Koch for this....

Wonder why he didn't shoot at them while they scurried off.

They'll surely be back for their gun, and some cash. Animals.

Yankee fans will go to any length to pay for playoff tickets...

please... they robbed a bank to buy the tickets, the convenience store was just for their beer money.

Banks are closed at night and they needed to get obscured view bleacher seats for $300 a seat...

I'm surprised his balls can even fit behind that tiny counter. Wow, good for him.

hahaha!

It looks to me like he reflexively batted the gun away, & got lucky. Good for him. Newsflash! GUNS CAN BE FIRED FROM FAR AWAY. In fact, you could kind of say that it their whole point. Don't use them like a sword!

I think the real lesson here (besides don't be an idiot who tries to rob people at gunpoint) is not to point the barrel of long firearm that close to someone's chest. If the moron had been standing three feet back he wouldn't have lost his gun.

Glad to see the clerk is OK, he's a brave one.

Exactly. He wasn't pointing the gun at the clerk, because he was too close to do so. The gun presented no threat at that moment, and the clerk had the presence of mind to recognize that. The gloves probably didn't help the bad guy either; they look like just loose cotton work gloves which might be fine to keep your fingerprints off something but don't help your grip.

they broke rule #1: never attempt to rob an owner/operator establishment. that was some astonishing Turkish jujitsu there, those dumbasses had no idea what to do.

let's be clear here class, you do not fuck with the Mustapha.

I love it! Fight like hell! How many times do cashiers just give it up only to get shot afterward?

Too many times employees at convenience stores, restaraunts, and stores have done the "safe" thing and complied with robbers just to be marched in the back and shot. If every attendant was armed, if every attendant fought back, armed robbery would be just a bad memory. It is well known that robbers seek and hit easy targets incapable of mounting resistance much like lions will go after the sick, old and very young wildebeest, but they rarely bother Hippos, Rhinos and Elephants, because even the young ones can cause them damage.

"Gun control is the illogical beleif that the woman who was raped and strangled with her own pantyhose is somehow morally superior to the one that is explaining to the police how she delivered the fatal shot to her attacker."

Turkish immigrants fight back and we love them for it. Go to YouTube and see the video of Hafize Sahin fighting off an armed robber with an axe on Long Island. Not to be missed.

A raise? No way. You want to encourage employees risking their lives? Imagine what that would do to your insurance premiums.

This guy got lucky. Future copycats probably won't.

Listened to this video a few times trying to pick out what he's saying. "Instantanzely" grabbed the gun?

When did the Post start doing video news stories? I first saw one yesterday; this is the second I've seen. Both with voiceovers by people who obviously aren't pros. Which I guess is why they're working for a newspaper and not a TV station, but still it seems like they could find better talent.

...after grabbing the gun Yakupoglu was arrested for possession of an unlicensed firearm...

i dont like to say this, but every crime on gothamist seems to be commited by a black guy. why-o-why?

ProcedureTurn:

another of your racist "insights". Your attempt to conclusions is juvenile, and 100% shallow.

Again and again, your simplistic intellectual displays makes you an imbecile.

Keep exercising your bigotry, you will go nowhere dumb ass You make a perfect example of idiocy for all to see.

There were two criminals in that video. One of them was clearly white -- his hands are visible in the video. The other criminal was black, judging also from his hands.

Use your eyes.

use my eyes? I did use my eyes. they were BOTH black. look closer. Im guessing youre black so you got defensive. no need to worry. just dont mimic what these brothers do. stay away from guns and go to school and get an education. You'll be much happier in life.

Wow, "ProcedureTurn"... you're a Class A asshole. Be for certain, not all crimes reported on Gothamist are committed by black people as "fuboy" pointed out. As for your comments about guns, education, and happiness, those "lessons" aren't exclusive to black people. Move back to Boston.

Did you notice that your original comment is still up? It, and your reply, make you look like an ass.

Those are gloves.

That doesn't help cover ProcedureTurn's blindness.

I guess he missed the coverage of Madoff, the hipster grifter, the loony opera singer, Monserrate, Gotti, Astor, and the punks who beat Jack Price - to name a few.

Those 2 robbers must be the biggest fuck-ups ever.

Tomorrow's will be the best breakfast he has ever tasted.

A shotgun is not a rifle. The gun in the video is a shotgun.

You mean is was a rifle, not a shotgun. It was clearly a rifle.

At a Turk!

LOL