Man refuses to give up LV bag at gunpoint
I worked very hard for this and this bag, Ive had forever, and it means a lot to me, recounted Kluting.
HOLLAND (Web Desk) – Jerad Kluting, 31 years old Michigander, refused to give up his $1,700 Louis Vitton bag on his way back from work when a robber held him at gunpoint in Holland.
“It happened very fast,” Kluting told WOODTV.com. “In one motion, he took the gun out of his waist belt and with the other hand put up a bandana over his mouth and pointed. [He] was like, ‘Give me your bag.’” But it’s Kluting’s response to this terrifying situation that has gotten tons of online attention.
“I was like, ‘You’re not getting my Louis Vuitton,’” Kluting recounted. “I worked very hard for this and this bag, I’ve had forever, and it means a lot to me.”
The robber fired off two warning shots into the air and Kluting ran away. “I didn’t have time to think—I just reacted,” he told BuzzFeed News. “He pursued me that time and he fired two more shots. On the fourth one, his gun jammed and he had to reload it.”
Fortunately, Kluting managed to get away, and the police have since arrested the 21-year-old suspect.
While the police (and, probably, most people) wouldn’t advise risking your life over a designer bag, Kluting said, “I love Louis Vuitton and I saw this bag long before I could buy it and I saved up my money to buy it. It means a lot to me. It represents me. I wasn’t about to relinquish my personal property.”
If Kluting has one message for the armed robber, it’s this: “‘I got my bag.’ He can pry it out of my cold dead hands.”
Kluting’s story has gone viral since it began circulating a few days ago, and while everyone can agree that this wasn’t the smartest of moves, many people have reached out to Kluting calling him a “hero.” Not all heroes wear capes, but, apparently, at least one of them does own a Luis Vuitton bag.
And while Kluting does believe that he would probably give up the bag if something like that were to (heaven forbid) happen again, he’s also proud he stood by his principles.
“As my grandmother would say, ‘If you’re born to hang, you’ll never drown,’” he said.
