Gunman Lets Victim Keep Credit Card

This is a story of someone being unbelievably smart, unbelievably courageous or unbelievably foolish. Whichever it was, he was also unbelievably lucky.

A Chicago man who was standing outside a store waiting for his family, found himself with a gun pressed to his head by a man asking for his wallet. Despite the fact that his life was in danger from the gunman, the victim asked if he might remove two items from the wallet before handing it over - an ID card and one credit card. The gunman obliged him and the victim removed the cards before giving the robber his wallet. The robber fled with a wallet containing other credit cards and about $150 in cash.

I don't know why the man wanted one credit card in particular, but let's hope that it was the card with the highest available balance and that all the others were already maxed out.