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Pizza shop owner fights off robber with a giant metal SPATULA
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:42 PM on 3rd December 2010
A pizza shop owner fought and disarmed a robber Monday night - with a giant metal spatula. The Brooklyn Park, Maryland altercation was caught by a surveillance camera. Store owner Choudhry Younis described how 31-year-old Mark Ensinger came in around 11:30 pm and demanded money.
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Wearing a black hoodie, Mark Ensinger tried to rob the Maryland pizza shop with a gun, but owner Choudhry Younis instead came at him from the kitchen wielding a giant metal spatula
Younis knocked the gun from the thief's hand and kept hitting as his son watched on with pride
'He showed me a gun. He said, "I'm not playing, give me everything",' Younis told WBAL-TV. Instead of cash the brave shopkeeper gave him a bruising. 'I had a spatula and thought, "Let me do something." This was the second time in the past couple of weeks we've been robbed, so I just took my chances,' Younis said. The first blow knocked the gun from the robber's hand and Younis followed up with a few more hits, eventually tackling Ensinger to the ground and holding him until police arrived. 'Small businesses are already struggling with this recession, so I thought, "I'm not going to give him money like that",' he said.
Ensinger and Heather Horton were both arrested. She allegedly fled the scene while Ensinger was smacked down by a pizza spatula
Younis's son, who works along side of his father, was impressed with his dad's actions. 'I'm way proud of my father. I can't be more proud of him. It's been a few years since I've seen him in action like that. It surprised me,' Imran Younis said.
Ensinger and Heather Horton, who allegedly fled the scene, were arrested and charged with armed robbery, assault, handgun violations and child neglect. Ensinger's 9-month old son was found at a nearby motel with no supervision after the robbery. Marijuana and drug paraphernalia was also found.<object classid="clsid<img src=" images="" smilies="" biggrin.gif="" alt="" title="Big Grin" smilieid="3" class="inlineimg" border="0">
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