YPSILANTI (WWJ) - A hot dog vender who wasn't too happy that people were stealing power tools took things into her own hands and launched herself onto their getaway vehicle.
The incident unfolded Monday afternoon at the Lowe's store on Carpenter Road in Ypsilanti, along US-23 just north of I-94.
Marcel Hillier was in the parking lot, waiting for a co-worker to use the bathroom, when he heard security alarms and saw several people running out of the store.
"I got out of the van and there was a lady trying to get these people to get out of their car and she's yelling at them and trying to get other people to surround the vehicle, trying to stop these people, and that's when I started recording," Hillier told WWJ's Dan Jenkins.
Video shows the vendor throwing herself on the hood of a silver sedan that was trying to flee the scene.
"They took off with her on the hood, halfway through the parking lot," Hillier said.
Other vehicles tried to help stop the suspects, but the woman ultimately got off of the car and they fled the scene. The woman received minor injuries in the incident and was checked out at a hospital, Hillier said, but is otherwise OK.
As for why she sprung into action, Hillier said the woman -- who works at the hot dog stand at the store's exit -- was fed up watching people get away with stealing.
"This time, she was tired of it and thought it was unfair that these people had been stealing from that Lowe's -- it's been a handful of times it's happened," he said. "She just got tired of them stealing and thought she could make a difference."
Police are still looking for the suspects, described only as three men.
