Usually, a big bingo win guarantees smiles for those fortunate enough to get their numbers called. Unfortunately for Patricia White, however, three thieves had other ideas for her bingo winnings. White, who lives in the ironically-named Pleasanton, California, with her sister, was followed home from a charity bingo event where she had just won $2,200. Three robbers, all aged between 19 and 22, accosted White upon entering her home in the wee hours of the morning, and injured her and her sister in the process of nabbing the bingo loot.

Luckily for White and her sister, a cop was in the vicinity to respond to their emergency phone call for help. As the armed thieves were about to escape, Officer Jim Marshall spotted the headlights of their getaway car. Having stopped the robbers in the nick of time, Marshall found evidence of their assault on White and her sister in the form of a pistol and a purse full of the $2,200 in bingo booty. The bingo bandits were immediately arrested on multiple charges, and the bingo bucks were returned to their rightful owner.