Wild moment angry Brisbane shopkeeper confronted teens with a massive knife before they allegedly rammed her Friendly Grocer store at Newport to free a mate [Video]

03:01 EDT 24 Jul 2024, updated 03:10 EDT 24 Jul 2024

A retailer in Queensland fed up with teenagers shoplifting from her store armed herself with a large knife before locking one of them inside.

Lin Ge, the shopkeeper at Friendly Grocer in Newport north of Brisbane, claims she has been hit by thieves on several occasions and took matters into her own hands when the three boys aged 14 to 15 were in her store on Tuesday.

‘I’m not going to lie, we were looking for a reaction from her. We were like pretending to steal, but we didn’t steal,’ one of the boys told 7 News.

Two of the boys ran out of the store ‘pretending’ to hold stolen goods.

CCTV footage then shows the shopkeeper shutting the glass door, locking the third boy inside, and then grabbing the roughly 30cm long blade and demanding he pay.

One of the boy’s claimed when he tried to open …