THERE SEEMS TO BE A LOT OF THIS GOING AROUND, LATELY: Bartender Foils Robbery at 14th Street NW Restaurant. “He announced his intentions as soon as he got to the bar and I just clocked him in the jaw.”

Related: Metairie bar hostage standoff ends when patron overpowers gunman. “As the SWAT team members arrived, a woman ran out of the bar shouting ‘they got him!’ Deputies entered from the back of the bar, and learned that one patron had jumped on Schlumbrecht and overpowered him and took away the AK-47. Several other customers helped hold the gunman down, according to the release.”