“Surveillance video shows a bizarre ‘break-in’ at a grocery store in Butler County. Thieves try to cash in fast by taking off with an ATM. The crooks tried using a truck as a battering ram, and brought down the front of the store.But owners say thanks to a quick thinking neighbor, those would-be burglars left empty handed. … ‘They stole a truck next door, came in here and ran it through the door. They hit it about three times, first time got it in midway. Then they got the truck completely through the building. They came to steal the ATM,’ Darnell said. The crooks plan didn’t go quite that way. That’s mostly due to a long time shopper and neighbor. ‘I heard this loud, excruciatingly loud bang across the street,’ Robert Chavez said. That’s when he sprang into action. ‘I got my gun out of my gun cabinet and told my wife to call 911. I walked outside, and fired a shot in the air just to ruffle their feathers,’ he said. It did. The would-be-burglars sped away and investigator Jim Akers says deputies found the truck abandoned on a county road. Before they left though, Chavez had a scare of his own. ‘He pulled out and faced me, the truck did. I felt at that point, I’m in imminent danger, and it scared me. I fired a slug through the windshield of his truck, and put one in the grill and passenger side door,’ Chavez said.” (07/23/08)