As reported earlier today by the consumerist.com, check out Chester - a 24 year old former Home Depot employee from Tennessee who was fired after restraining a crowbar-wielding thief after chasing him out of the store into the parking lot!

“When he ran, I ran after him,” he said. Chester caught the thief and restrained him in the parking lot until police arrived.

“He had a crowbar, and what if he had come inside and gone after customers or the employees working at the registers?” Chester asked. “I’d rather have him coming at me than going after any of the customers.”

Chester could restrain me any time he wanted …

Read the story in its entirety at consumerist.com.