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I tend to take the side of security guards who get in trouble with their bosses for trying to stop a robbery…if you want to risk your life for golf balls and chicken (seriously, golf balls and chicken), more power to you. But there’s something a little self-aggrandizing about this Wal-Mart security guard who got fired for trying to stop a robber with a knife.

Josh Rutner said he was just doing his job as a Wal-Mart “asset protection officer” earlier this month when he chased a knife-wielding theft suspect across the store parking lot.

“I couldn’t let him get away,” Rutner said. “That’s wrong.”

According to Ocala police reports and Rutner’s account, the trouble happened at the Wal-Mart on Southwest 19th Avenue Road near the Paddock Mall. Ash picked up a pack of golf balls, valued at $42.98, and put them in his pants.

Ash then took the golf balls to another section, left them, and ate deli chicken without paying, Rutner said.

He wasn’t expecting Ash to pull a knife, slash at his face and take off running, Rutner said.

“I felt now that he was a danger to the public and the city,” he said. “If he’d pull a knife on two security guards, he’d pull a knife on anyone.”

[Ocala]

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