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I couldn’t write this if I sat down for 30 years and tried.

The Washington Post via Yahoo:

It started about midnight on June 16 when a group of friends was finishing a dinner of marinated steaks and jumbo shrimp on the back patio of a District of Columbia home. That’s when a hooded man slid through an open gate and pointed a handgun at the head of a 14-year-old girl.

“Give me your money, or I’ll start shooting,” he said, according to D.C. police and witnesses.

Everyone froze, including the girl’s parents. Then one guest spoke.

“We were just finishing dinner,” Cristina “Cha Cha” Rowan, 43, told the man. “Why don’t you have a glass of wine with us?”

The intruder had a sip of their Chateau Malescot St-Exupery and said, “Damn, that’s good wine.”

The girl’s father, Michael Rabdau, 51, told the intruder to take the whole glass, and Rowan offered him the whole bottle.

The robber, with his hood down, took another sip and a bite of Camembert cheese. He put the gun in his sweatpants.

The story then turns even more bizarre.

“I think I may have come to the wrong house,” he said before apologizing. “Can I get a hug?”

Rowan, who works at her children’s school and lives in Falls Church, Va., stood up and wrapped her arms around the armed man. The four other guests followed.

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First thought: now there’s a robber with very little personal conviction.

Robber: “Gimme your fucking money or I start shooting!”

Dinner Guest: “Wine?”

Robber: “Sure, don’t mind if I do.” <sip>

…

Robber: “You guys are aces. Hug?”

If he were testing for his Robber License, he failed.

Second thought: that’s the coolest, most shrewd gaggle of dinner guests ever. I’m betting we’ll read about how they actually took the robber’s wallet sometime over the next few days. And how the robber is totally cool with it.