Intruder asks for money, gets a glass of wine instead
The next time someone bursts onto your property and demands money, politely offer them a glass of wine. That seemed to work for the guests at a dinner party in Washington DC, when a hooded man slipped into the backyard, held a 14 year old girl at gunpoint, and demanded money. The five other guests froze, and then one made the offer:
“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.”
The man hung out for a bit, nibbled on some Camembert, asked for a group hug, then left, but he didn’t leave empty handed. He took a full glass of the Chateau Malescot into the alleyway, finished the wine, left the glass, and took off.
The girls father, Michael Rabdau recalls:
“There was this degree of disbelief and terror at the same time,” Rabdau said. “Then it miraculously just changed. His whole emotional tone turned — like, we’re one big happy family now. I thought: Was it the wine? Was it the cheese?”
I ‘d say it was the wine.
