Law Enforcement - Alabama Style

From today's Huntsville Times:

A 30-year old man was charged with robbery Tuesday night when a shoplifting incident escalated into robbery, police said. The man left the T.J. Maxx store on Old Monrovia Road without paying for cologne. Three store employees chased the man, who pulled a box cutter on the employees when they tried to stop him from getting into a car. The employees took the box cutter away from the man and held him in the store office until police arrived.

Lots of details were left out of this story, giving me hope that there was some serious ass-whooping involved.