Shop owner refuses robber by saying she's busy 'drinking tea'

Being confronted with a robber is terrifying, but one English shop owner was not fazed. In fact, she did him to wait.

Karamjit Sangha, of Kingston upon Hull in England, works at the cashier at a newsstand. One day, robber Stuart Gleeson entered her shop and held her at knife point, demanding money.

Sangha, however, was not intimidated. "I was just sitting there having my cup of tea," she told local newspaper Hull Daily Mail, "when he came in holding this seven-inch kitchen knife."

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Gleeson asked for all the money in the register. Sangha merely put down her cup of tea and waved a craft knife she was using to open boxes. Gleeson then scurried away.

The robber was caught on CCTV surveillance, and was sentences to four-and-a-half years in prison for attempted robbery and knife possession. Sangha was satisfied with the sentence, and said that the incident has not made her afraid to go to work.

"It haven't [sic] put me off my job and it hasn't had any lasting effect on me," she said. "You just have to get on with it."