Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A Portland, Ore., car wash worker used what he calls his "quick draw" on the spray gun to foil a would-be robber who ran off after getting a hose-down. Chris B. Truax, a 25-year-old worker at The Washman car wash in Portland told The Oregonian newspaper he backed away from the business' cash register when the unidentified robber demanded cash, telling the masked man, "I'm not touching that money … it's all you." Advertisement At that point, police said, Truax reached down grabbed a high-pressure spray gun, and aiming it like a rifle, hit the man with a mixture of soap and lukewarm water as his hands were in the till, forcing him to flee. "It was like a quick draw," Truax recalled Monday of the Dec. 13 incident. "I wanted him away from me, that's all." "It had to hurt. I promise you that," chimed in Jason Marsh, Truax's assistant manager at the Washman. "It was brilliant." "It's quite unusual," Portland Detective Chris Traynor told the newspaper. "I think he saw he had an opportunity to score one for the good guys."
