About midnight on June 16, a group of friends was finishing dinner on the patio of a Washington D.C. home when a hooded man slid through an open gate and pointed a handgun at a 14-year-old girl's head. "Give me your money, or I'll start shooting," he said.Everyone froze, but then one guest spoke up. "We were just finishing dinner," Cristina Rowan, 43, told the man. "Why don't you have a glass of wine with us?" The intruder had a sip of their Chateau Malescot St-Exupery and said, "Damn, that's good wine." The girl's father, Michael Rabdau, 51, told him to take the whole glass, and Rowan offered him the bottle. The would-be robber, with his hood down, took another sip and a bite of Camembert cheese and put the gun in his sweatpants. Then the man with the gun apologized, "I think I may have come to the wrong house. Can I get a hug?" Rowan stood up and wrapped her arms around the man and the four other guests followed.
The man walked away a few moments later with the crystal wine glass in hand. No one was hurt, but once he was gone, the group went inside, locked the door and called 911.
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