Neighbors say it was hard to believe the men would try to rob Pooh’s Corner.  The bar is well-known in the area as a hangout for police officers.

“It’s a place you want to go drinking,” Rick Reed said, “because when all the cops are sitting there with guns, you feel pretty safe, or I do anyway.”

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Eight people shot, two dead and a sacred cow torn to shreds.

Conventional wisdom kept telling us “Who could be so idiot as to rob a cop bar?”  We have at least three! Remember the one good principle of Idiot-Proofing something: Somebody will come along and prove you wrong and in a spectacular way.

The perps were stupid, but that did not make them less dangerous.  They walked in the bar, announced it was a robbery and proceeded to shoot a 63-year-old woman in the head.

Shootings are chaotic and messy: one patron responded taking one of the criminals out, but was shot in the leg and two other customers were also slightly wounded.

Nothing like the movies.