Strange but True: Would-be Robber Leaves with Glass of Wine

Written by Darren Hewer

[The party was winding down when] suddenly, a hooded man slid in through an open gate and put the barrel of a handgun to the head of a 14-year-old guest. “Give me your money, or I’ll start shooting,” he demanded.

“We were just finishing dinner,” Cristina “Cha Cha” Rowan, 43, blurted out. “Why don’t you have a glass of wine with us?” … The intruder took a sip of their Chateau Malescot St-Exupéry and said, “Damn, that’s good wine.”

Then he tucked the gun into the pocket of his nylon sweatpants.
“I think I may have come to the wrong house,” he said, looking around the patio of the home in the 1300 block of Constitution Avenue NE.
“I’m sorry,” he told the group. “Can I get a hug?”

[The guests complied, then] the man walked out with a crystal wine glass in hand, filled with Chateau Malescot. No one was hurt, and nothing was stolen.

Read the full article for the whole story. What would your reaction have been in this situation? Personally, I’d like to think that I’d be levelheaded, but I’m not so sure I would be! What do you do to keep calm under pressure?

(Thanks goes to Rusty Wright of probe.org for the heads-up.)