Dave & Chuck the Freak watch what happens when an unusually fit jewelry store owner -- and his less-so employee -- chase down a necklace robber.
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00:00Massachusetts jewelry store owner wasn't going to let a guy run out of his store with a $16,000
00:14necklace. So he decided to go after the dude. What happened? Let's get the story now. Take a
00:21listen. When a customer allegedly tried to grab and go at a jewelry store, the owner wasn't having
00:28it. Very friendly, very nice. Wanted to see a couple of chains and he kept on wanting to see bigger and bigger ones. And then when he got the one he liked, he took off running. Joe Furnari of Furnari Jewelers was helping the seemingly curious man at the Holyoke Mall in Massachusetts. But when the customer turned and ran, Furnari says he wasn't going to just stand there. I was like, I just got to get this back. I didn't want him to get away with something. It wasn't right what he did. And you know, I didn't want time to pay.
00:58And you know, I worked hard for that chain. I didn't want him to have it for nothing. Furnari says he chased the man through the mall and was hot on his trail. I was getting closer and closer with each step. I started yelling. I go, I'm going to catch you. I'm going to catch you. And then when I got pretty close to him, he knew I was going to catch him. So he threw the chain down. Another shopper picked up the chain and returned it. It was worth $16,000. Furnari says no one was hurt and he hopes this serves as a lesson to potential
01:28thieves that some businesses are not just going to take the loss. It's okay to fight back. When someone's doing you wrong. Don't take, do not be a victim. It's a chubby man to opt for the running. Yeah. I couldn't believe he did. I couldn't believe he did. It's like, no wonder the jeweler who's like a marathon runner. Yeah. He looks like he's in great shape.
01:49He's like, I'm obviously going to catch you. I mean, his worker, she, she would have been the target, right?
01:55No, no, no. There's no chance.
01:56No. She never would have gotten him. In fact, he took the time to run around the entire cabinet. Yeah.
02:03And still ended up catching the guy. Yeah. He was gaining on him, obviously.
02:07The guy's like, me, me, me, me, me. He's like, getting on the escalator.
02:15You know, just letting it take him down.
02:17You got to size up the athletic ability of the jewel restore owner.
02:23You do. Sure you do.
02:24Before you go in.
02:25Is it that you're hoping that, so we'll just pretend that I was like a fit guy or whatever,
02:29but you just pretend or hope that you get the guy like me where I'm like, it's not really my chain.
02:35That he won't come after you?
02:37See you later.
02:37You don't expect the owner to be there.
02:38You know, yeah. Like that guy was like, man, no, I'm not letting it happen.
02:43Like if that girl behind the counter was there, she would have.
02:46There's no way she would have just let him by herself.
02:49Yeah. Like, well, I believe she just put on a nice show for the camera.
02:52Well, because the manager took off.
02:54She figured she better.
02:55And she was like, oh, let me run.
02:56Yeah, she can't. She's not doing anything.
03:00She is not doing anything.
03:01Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh.
03:04If I wanted to.
03:05Stop.
03:06Get, get.
03:07I mean, this right.
03:10It may get.
03:11If that, picture that.
03:14That's the person to talk to.
03:15Running.
03:16Picture that running.
03:17Get out of the air in.
03:20And like, where was she going?
03:21Like, I would say there's no way out.
03:23To the end of the counter.
03:24Right.
03:25No.
03:25Trying to act like she's helping.
03:27That's it. That's it.
03:27Go get him.
03:29Get him, boss.
03:30Cheer him on.
03:31Yeah, get him, get him.
03:32Like, that's it.
03:33You got to wait for the real in shape guy to not be there.
03:37You could have walked out of the store with her there.
03:40I could be like, I'm taking this.
03:43Bye.
03:44See you later.
03:45I'm out of here.
03:48I'm going to take this right now.
03:49I'm on my way out.
03:51But she would die.
03:54Okay, bye.
03:56Yeah.
03:57We're in action.
03:59Like, I almost feel like I could.
04:01Like, drop a newspaper on the ground.
04:04And that would, like, stop her.
04:05Wait.
04:06Pause it.
04:07Pause it.
04:08Yeah.
04:08That's fine.
04:10Yeah, it's not.
04:15No, it's not good.
04:17I feel like, I feel like, you know, that plant.
04:20You see that plant that was right there?
04:21I could have knocked that over.
04:22And she would have been like, I couldn't chase him after that.
04:25The path was blocked.
04:26Yeah.
04:27It was blocked.
04:27He blocked my path.
04:28I would have had to jump it.
04:31She's not the one you want.
04:32No.
04:33In charge of your security.
04:34Anyway.
04:35Not going to do much good for you.
04:37But, yeah, that guy was a little too ballsy, though.
04:40You got to protect your stuff.
04:41You got to, I mean, that's how people get shot.
04:43And it's against everything the police say.
04:47Yes.
04:47Yeah.
04:47I get it.
04:48It was his place.
04:49You're more invested to kind of go after it.
04:50I think you're right.
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