'No speak inglés.'

Posted July 9, 2009 at 3:10 PM

http://exurbanleague.com/2009/07/09/no-speak-inglés.aspx?ref=rss

Sometimes an immigrant's inability to speak English works out pretty well for American society:

An armed man gave up trying to rob a Hispanic clerk at the Asia Market on Tuesday night when she didn't understand his demands for money, Mobile police said.

The clerk, Angelina Geronimo, speaks almost no English.

Geronimo, whose husband owns the Asian food store on Azalea Road, was alone when a man, masked by two T-shirts around his head and armed with a handgun, entered about 8:30 p.m., according to police.

"There was one person, a customer, in the store and as soon as he left, the robber came in," said Moses Orozco, Geronimo's son-in-law. "He kept pointing the gun at her, but she didn't understand what he was saying."

Surveillance video taken at the west Mobile store shows the man holding Geronimo at gunpoint as she places her hands over her mouth and shakes her head.

¿Cómo se dice, _"awesome"?_