DETROIT, Mi. — A cup of coffee came in handy for a man during an attempted robbery. Tim Blair says he bought his usual cup of coffee before work on Tuesday morning.
“If I didn’t have that coffee things probably would have went differently,” Blair said.
Two men on bikes approached Blair after he left 7-Eleven.
“He stopped directly in front of me and he asked me for my money,” he said. “Now, I wasn’t sure if that’s what he said at first. I thought maybe he was asking me for directions.”
The would be robbers wanted cash when they confronted Blair at 3 a.m.
“He started pulling a gun out,” he said. “When I saw the gun I just reacted fast on instinct.”
His quick thinking helped deter the robbers and gave them a wake up call they won’t soon forget.
“The coffee that I had when I left out of 7-Eleven…I threw it at him, like in his face around his upper part of his body to kind of blind him,” He said.
The coffee slowed them down for a while, but not for long.
“I started running and they started shooting at me, so I checked by back side to see if I was shot,” he said.
The suspects didn’t get anything from Blair, but they did get away.
Blair says 7-Eleven replaced his coffee free of charge. No one was hurt.