Woman reveals man who robbed her at gunpoint asked her out years later

‘I was gobsmacked’

A woman has revealed that a man who had been a part of a robbery in which she’d been held at gunpoint asked her out years later, having served his time in prison.

During a discussion about inappropriate ways to ask someone out on a date on Channel 5 show The Wright Stuff, Matthew Wright was treated to an extraordinary story from a caller.

Jo, a woman from Hertfordshire, began telling Wright over the phone about a time years ago when she’d been out clubbing.

Somebody pointed a man out in the club to her, informing Jo that he had actually been part of a robbery that she had been a victim of years previously.

“They told me and I went over to confront them and they asked me out, and the reason it was inappropriate, he’d been one of the robbers that had robbed us at gunpoint and knifepoint years previous. He’d just come out of prison,” Jo said, much to the utter shock of Wright and his audience.

“I was at the post office and we got robbed with shotguns and guns, and he come and he asks me out, and he said [he wanted] to talk over old times.”

The man proceeded to hand Jo his phone number, even going as far as to say that had he known what she looked like he would have flirted with her during the robbery.

“I’m not very often lost for words but I was gobsmacked and I just didn’t say anything,” she said.

Wright was completely thrown aback by the story, describing it as: “The call of my career.”

Some people have commented online expressing how unbelievable they find the story, with others speculating that the whole thing could have been made up by the caller.

More social media users have shared their own unusual and at-times harrowing pick-up stories.

“Once had the guy who worked in our local Chinese ask me out when I picked up a takeaway that my boyfriend had ordered,” one woman wrote.

“Driving instructor. I was 20 and he was 50!” another person commented. “I was completely grossed out.”

One woman was forced to change her contact details due to unwanted advances.

“A plumber that came to my house then bombarded me with texts and phone calls had to change my number creepy guy,” she said.