Supermarket robbery with kitchen knife and a chair involved

Supermarket robbery with a kitchen knife and a chair

A woman with her face covered and a kitchen knife walked into a supermarket intent on robbing it, according to the account accompanying the video. She threatened the clerk. The video is circulating on social media, but the scene is already three years old: the frame itself shows the date 2023/06/07. This is no movie-style heist: it's Spain at its most absurd, the kind that turns a corner shop into a Torrente film set without needing a script.

The footage that has gone viral these days —a tweet with the clip— has sparked all kinds of reactions. The first, the most repeated: "That's at least 4 years old," as if the video's age lessened the seriousness of the matter. The second, the inevitable comparison with Santiago Segura's films. "Looks like a scene from Torrente," one comment sums up. And there's some truth to it: the protagonist, with her face covered and a kitchen knife, faces off against a clerk who, according to the account, doesn't back down.

What exactly peine in the robbery

The events, as described in the material: a woman with her face covered and a kitchen knife threatens the clerk of a supermarket, according to the account. There are no further details about the store, the city, or the outcome. The video, from 2023, has been recycled as if it were recent. The date visible in the clip itself —2023/06/07— disproves any claim of novelty.

The discussion soon turned to the domestic detail: the stool. "You grab the stool backwards, Domestics 101," one message quips. The scene, more than a robbery, looks like a badly rehearsed circus act. Some claim the woman had watched too many tough-girl empowerment series. Others, however, focus on the clerk's luck: "the lady got lucky the shop assistant was pretty peaceful, anyone else would have pulled out a bigger machete and cut her arm off without a word."

The stool, the spray, and the clerk's response

The object that generated the most comments wasn't the knife, but the chair. "Chair + self-defense spray --> Knife game over," one message sums up. The combination of a badly held stool and a defensive spray would have been enough to neutralize the threat. It's the homemade version of self-defense, the kind you learn on survival forums and in self-protection courses.

The clerk, according to the account, didn't resort to any of that. He stood his ground. Seen today, the scene has something of the grotesque about it: a robber with a kitchen knife, a stool held the wrong way, and a worker who doesn't flinch. That absurd side of Spain, the one that turns the tragic into the comic, appears here in its most literal form.

The video's date: 2023, not 2025

The detail that settles the debate about the clip's recency is in the frame itself: 2023/06/07. Three years and change. This is not a robbery from yesterday. Anyone sharing it as if it were new ignores —or wants to ignore— that the video has already been around the block.

That doesn't stop the story from still being talked about. The comparison with Torrente, the badly held stool, the kitchen knife as a robbery weapon. It all fits into an imagery that Spaniards recognize instantly. The question now is whether the video will circulate again in another three years as if it had just peine.

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The predictable outcome is that the clip will keep being recycled every so often. The date is there, visible, but that has never stopped anyone. Absurd Spain doesn't need novelty: a kitchen knife and a badly held chair are enough.