Dramatic moment two teens armed with MACHETES tried to rob a store... But were quickly scared off when the clerk pulled out an even bigger sword
- Store owner was closing Perry Market in Pittsburgh at 9.30pm on Friday
- Two teenagers ran in brandishing foot-long machetes demanding money
- Clerk, who is not named, jumped up from cash register with 2ft-long sword
- He hit one of the machetes with his sword then chased them out the shop
- The teens, who have not been caught, dropped everything and ran away
Two machete-wielding robbers were sent running when the cashier they tried to ambush pulled out a two-foot-long sword.
The clerk was shutting up Perry Market in Pittsburgh at 9.30pm on Friday when two masked teenagers ran inside and demanded money.
One held their foot-long blade to a customer's face, while the other went to the cash register threatening the store owner.
But the clerk, who has not been named, jumped up from behind the counter - brandishing a weapon double the size.
Ambush: Two masked sword-wielding teenagers ran into Perry Market in Pittsburgh at 9.30pm on Friday
Attempted robbery: One held his foot-long machete to a customer who cowered with fear
Fighting back: As the other thief approached the store clerk (seen here in a white t-shirt), he came at them with a bigger sword
Defense: The store owner lifted up his two-foot-long blade and clashed it with one of the measly machetes
In a remarkable scene captured on surveillance video, the clerk runs at full speed towards the would-be robbers with his sword ahead of him and hits one machete with his blade.
Panicked, the two teens flee and the clerk chases them down the street.
According to police, everything they had picked up, including a set of t-shirts, was found strewn across the street after they fled.
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The clerk's brother M.C. Hydare, who was in the store at the time, told WPXI: 'When he hit the sword that the dude had in his hand - my brother hit the sword - he ran away.
'I just want to give a message to them: don’t try this. You can have money in a better way. Not this.
Courageous: The shop-worker is filmed lifting the blade again, defiantly challenging the men to fight him
Armed: Surveillance footage shows the clerk swinging the sword confidently as he approaches the would-be robbers
Getaway: The theives then flee, dropping everything they had tried to steal, and the clerk chases them out the store
Fearless: The shop worker appears confident throughout the attack and watches the cowardly criminals running down the street in terror
Fleeing: Here the duo can be seen running for their lives from the grocery store in central Pittsburgh
Warning: The clerk's brother, M. C. Hydare, showed the blade he used to defend himself and warned other robbers to stay away
'Please stay away. Go and find work somewhere.'
Pittsburgh police are investigating the incident - which comes four years after the city reported an issue with 'sword-wielding ninjas'.
Eleven cars were smashed and a man was stabbed in the hand by a group of so-called ninjas in South Union Township, Pittsburgh, in 2011.
Police did not track down the assailants.
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