WINNIPEG – Four McDonald’s employees escaped a terrifying ordeal unscathed yesterday morning, after a thug armed with a samurai sword crawled into their restaurant through a drive-through window. “No one was injured or anything, so that’s fantastic,” a store manager said, adding the employees in question had all been sent home to get some rest.
“They are a little shaken up, though.”
The incident began just before 5:30 a.m., when a car pulled into the drive-through lane of the McDonald’s.
Winnipeg police Const. Shelly Glover said a man armed with a samurai-style sword and a metal pipe confronted an employee, eventually forcing his way through the drive-through window and into the restaurant, Glover said.
Once inside, the suspect held the sword to a 17-year-old manager’s throat while ordering the other staffers - two of them 17, the other 31 - onto the floor.
Still armed with the sword, the bandit led the manager to the back of the restaurant, where a second suspect was let in. The two then bound the employees with duct tape and forced the manager to turn over an undisclosed amount of cash.
Glover said all four workers escaped injury, but will likely be left with emotional scars.
“This was a very traumatic incident for these victims,” she said. “They’re going to be experiencing the emotional impacts of these events.”
The two men were wearing balaclavas, sunglasses and dark clothing, Glover added.
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