Amish Robbed at Gunpoint: Suspect Targets Two Buggies In PA Community

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Amish Robbed at Gunpoint: Suspect Targets Two Buggies In PA Community - Amish America

Buggies on the road make seemingly easy targets for armed robbers. But often enough, they end up getting caught. That might be bad news for a suspect who has been targeting Amish buggies in northwestern Pennsylvania. From WFMJ: A 30-year-old man from Mercer told police that a small black sedan...

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A 30-year-old man from Mercer told police that a small black sedan stopped in front of his buggy. A male suspect, described as a white male wearing dark clothing and a medical mask, approached him with a firearm and demanded his wallet. The victim gave the suspect his wallet, and the suspect fled in the sedan.

While at the scene, troopers were contacted about a similar incident on Leesburg Station Road. A second victim, a 22-year-old New Wilmington man, reported that a small black sedan drove alongside his buggy and demanded his wallet. The buggy driver refused to give the suspect his wallet, and the sedan drove away.

The victim told police that the suspect was in the passenger seat, was a white male wearing dark clothing and a medical mask and was holding a firearm. Byler was unable to describe the driver of the sedan.

We saw this last year a similar story to this out of Ohio last year (as well as Tennessee and other places in the past). The robber in that case was quickly apprehended. Hopefully that’s what we’ll see here too.

They're a good target. They live largely in a cash economy. It's nothing for them to go to the bank on a Monday with tens of thousands in cash they earned over a weekend.

The Amish won't put up with that crap for long. They do have firearms and Mennonite friends that will lay you low in a heartbeat.

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The Amish people are immigrants from 17th Century Switzerland, a place which doesn't put up with this kind of shit.

It isn't the land of yodeling and chocolate, and the hills aren't alive with the sound of music among those guys.

I'd recommend that the perps turn themselves into the civil authorities, they don't want the Amish to go 17th Century on them when they are caught.