‘Call his bluff’: Chilliwack cashier challenges attempted armed robber - BERITAJA

Jennifer Burnside was moving astatine Padmore’s Quick Shop successful Chilliwack, B.C., connected Monday nighttime erstwhile a man came successful wearing a mask.

“I asked him to region it,” she said.

“And he wouldn’t. I knew thing was up pinch that and I seemed to admit him arsenic good and so, aft arguing, I conscionable conceded I wanted him retired of the store… erstwhile I had my backmost turned he pulled retired a weapon, for illustration a gun, and asked maine to quiet the till.”

Burnside said she was shocked to spot the limb and she jumped back.

“But past I told him no, it wasn’t happening,” she said.

Burnside said the family that owns the business useful really difficult and she didn’t want to conscionable manus complete the money.

“So I thought I’d telephone his bluff.”

The Upper Fraser Valley RCMP said that connected May 4, conscionable earlier 9 p.m., constabulary received a study of an alleged equipped robbery connected Menzies Street successful Chilliwack.

“They responded instantly and upon arrival, the fishy was nary longer connected scene,” Cpl. Carmen Kiener, media relations serviceman for the Upper Fraser Valley RCMP, told BERITAJA.

“But we did corroborate that the victim, aliases the worker of the store, was safe and unharmed.”

Kiener said that astatine this time, location are nary suspects and nary 1 is successful custody, but they are urging anyone to travel guardant pinch immoderate information.

“We return these incidents very seriously, and we are treating it very earnestly to hopefully effort and place the personification responsible,” she added.

Callie Ward is simply a lash tech who useful adjacent and told BERITAJA that proceeding about the attempted robbery was unsettling.

“The area down present has decidedly changed successful the past twelvemonth aliases so,” she said.

“But thing for illustration that has happened.”

Burnside said she mentally prepares herself each time that location mightiness beryllium unit astatine her spot of work.

“I’m about apt expected to opportunity that you should comply, but it’s their ain prime successful the spur of the moment,” she said of really others should enactment successful her position. “I wasn’t afraid, I was shocked, astatine the feature of it.

“He didn’t moreover get the extremity jar.”