Fed-Up Restaurant Owner Foils Armed Robbery in One of the Best Ways: ‘I Couldn’t Just Stand Here and Watch Him Take My Money’ (+video)

They say “don’t bring a knife to a gun fight” — so this restaurant owner didn’t. Instead, he armed himself with a pot of scalding hot oil.

On Monday afternoon, the owner of a local corner deli foiled a robbery by hurling a pot of burning oil at an armed robber as the thief attempted to open the cash register, according to NJ.com.

The owner, who reportedly asked not to be identified, said he had often thought of weaponizing cooking oil in such a situation.

“Frankly speaking, I did think, ‘If anything happens, I’ll throw hot oil on somebody,’” he reportedly said, with a laugh. “But I never thought it would really happen.”

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