This is fiction but I vaguely remember reading in the paper maybe 20 years ago that something like this happened during a bar hold up. Let me know if you remember anything about a real event like this happening.
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There once was a bar called the Purple Turtle and I happened to be there during a robbery. However, the robbers only emptied the cash register and got out as quickly as possible. Most people did not even know that a robbery was in progress, and there certainly was no sexual coercion.
Oh, and remember everyone—THIS IS A FANTASY. I certainly do not condone violence against women or against anyone for that matter. What might be titillating as a fantasy would be horrifying in reality! Eliza
Bonnie could tell that, as far as her nephew Nick was concerned, she had brought him to just the right place to celebrate his twenty-first birthday. Nick's dad Matt seemed less thrilled with her choice of a venue for their celebration, and his Mom, Bonnie's sister Paulette, looked almost apoplectic.
"I thought we were going somewhere nice," Paulette said. "I should have known when you drove us down to this neighborhood, that we'd be coming to some dump ..."
"Are you kidding? This used to be one of the nicest neighborhoods in town ..." Bonnie said. "And ..."
"Yeah, about a hundred years ago," Matt said.
"And, as I was about to say, this neighborhood is gonna be the next hot part of town."
In truth, the Purple Turtle was in a neighborhood that had seen better days, and the bar did seem a bit seedy. Some of the customers seemed a little seedy too, but Bonnie had been coming here once or twice a week for several years and had always had a good time and felt perfectly safe. The beer was cold and cheap, the music was good, there were plenty of pool tables, and the burgers were the best in town.
"I like it," said Nick, looking around. "I like it a lot. There are some hot looking girls here."
"Forget about them," said Paulette curtly, "you're here with your family."
They sat at the bar. The bartender came over. Paulette ordered a margarita and the rest of them ordered beer. The bartender asked for Nick's I.D. and he proudly whipped out his wallet and showed the bartender his driver license. "A birthday boy," she said, smiling. "First one's on the house, then."
Bonnie had always adored her nephew Nick. She'd never had kids of her own. Nick was her "son" in a way. But he was also a very good looking young man. She glared at the bartender. She projected the thought, "Stay away from him." Then she felt silly. Nick was her nephew, not her lover. He should have a good time on his 21st birthday.
They sat and chatted for awhile. After a couple of beers, Matt seemed to relax. The band was playing 60's music, which made him happy. Nick was happily flirting with the bartender. Paulette was the only one who still seemed uncomfortable. But then, Bonnie thought, Paulette never seems comfortable.
"Slow down," Paulette told her son. "You're drinking too fast."
"Mom," he whispered, "you're embarrassing me. You know, just because this is my first legal beer doesn't mean it's my first beer."
Paulette gave him a dirty look.
To make matters even worse for Paulette, the guy sitting at the bar next to her kept trying to chat her up. There were always a few scary people hanging out at the Purple Turtle, but Bonnie found that they were harmless, and some of them were very nice guys. The one next to Paulette, though, was extra scary looking. Even though it was a warm evening, he was wearing a leather jacket. He had a pasty white complexion and some ugly tattoos. He kept trying to talk to Paulette. "Pretty Lady,: he said to Paulette. "Maybe you dance of me?" She stared at him as if he were cat vomit on her oriental carpet.
"I don't think so," she said, waving her hand in front of her face as if swatting away flies.
He smiled, a rather evil smile, and said, "That's OK ... maybe later on the evening you'll feel more for dancing." Bonnie heard a Mitteleuropa accent in his voice. He might have been Croatian, or Bulgarian, or Lithuanian or something like that.
Paulette rolled her eyes. "I don't think so, we're just hear to celebrate my son's birthday."
"Oh is very nice, whole family gathered up, your husband, your son, your daughter, to celebration the birthday boy," the man said.
"She's NOT my daughter, she's my sister," Paulette snapped at him. "She's only four years younger than me."
Bonnie knew that she looked ten years younger than her big sister, who had really let herself go after marrying Matt, but there was no way the man could really have thought Bonnie was really Paulette's daughter. He's just needling her cause she wouldn't dance with him, she thought.
"Am sorry to offending you," said the man. "Has been so nice talking, but now must do an important something."
"I think Mom's got a boyfriend," Nick whispered to Bonnie. Bonnie laughed. She glanced over at the guy next to Paulette again. He was looking, she noticed, at a couple of other guys with pasty complexions sitting across the bar from him who were also wearing leather. They might have been his brothers or cousins. Then she noticed another one of these east European types at the door. As she watched, the guy next to Paulette nodded to the others, smiled his nasty smile, and unzipped his jacket.
What happened next was very alarming. He pulled out a gun. It had a handle like a pistol but was as long as a shotgun. It looked particularly lethal. She looked around. The other three men in leather were also brandishing weapons. The one next to Paulette fired a shot into the air. It sounded like a rocket being launched. Paulette, who had deliberately turned on her barstool so as to avoid looking at him, was unaware that her neighbor at the bar had drawn a gun. She was so startled by the thunderous report that she nearly fell off her barstool.
There was a shower of plaster dust onto the bar, into their drinks, and all over their clothes and hair.
"Everyone, listen out, and listen out good," said the man by the door. He also had an eastern European accent. "There's a robbery going up here. EVERYONE lies down to their bellies NOW, you don't mind."
Bonnie slid off he bar stool and laid face down on the dirty floor of the Purple Turtle. She was sorry she'd worn a white top.
She saw the man who had been standing near the front door lock the door behind him. Another pasty-faced. leather-jacketed man herded the kitchen help out into the main part of the restaurant and had them lie down, then he went into the restrooms. He pushed out an older man who had a wet stain on the front of his pants. He must have been in mid-pee when the shot went off.
The man who had been sitting next to Paulette went behind the bar and emptied the cash register into a bag. Another man went into the office and forced the manager to empty the safe. Bonnie thought, "They've got what they want. Now they'll get out of here as fast as they can ...."