In the movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, one of the most famous scenes that doesn’t involve topless Phoebe Cates is the scene in which Brad Hamilton, played by Judge Reinhold, stops a robber by throwing a pot of hot coffee in his face.  You’d think that’s the kind of thing that can only happen in a movie, but you’d be wrong.  When Chris Hegnes was reporting to work as manager of Englund Marine and Industrial Supply, he was confronted by a hammer-wielding robber.  He threw his coffee in the robber’s face and took off.

Hegnes says the man had been trying to get into the company’s safe using tools found laying around the company’s Crescent City, California, office.  The crook succeeded in damaging the tools, but didn’t get into the safe.  Police are investigating.

I’ll never take my morning cup of coffee for granted ever again.

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