Robbed at ‘stone point’

There is a man or it could be men, who have invented a strange way of stealing from motorists.
Be it at night or during the day, he will just appear in front of a moving vehicle with a stone in hand, waving at the windscreen.
The sight of a human being in front of a moving vehicle triggers, instinctively, any motorist to reduce speed or abruptly halt to avoid hitting him.
But just about that same moment, as you try to fathom reason for his sudden presence  on the road, he is already at your window demanding money, with his stone strategically positioned at the vehicle’s windscreen.

 
His demand is clear: you either give him the money or you drive home with a smashed windscreen.
I first met him one evening as I drove through Victoria Avenue—between Victoria Hotel and Blantyre Sports Club to be exact. Traffic was slow. Then suddenly, a topless man with one hand waving this big stone at the windscreen stood in front of the vehicle.
My first thought was that he was mentally unstable. I didn’t, for the life of me, think he could stand there for money until he demanded it from the passenger I was with. We were literally being robbed.
He is a clever guy who thinks through his plan before attacking. I could see that from the way he positioned himself and the weapon as he made his demands.

 
While the passenger shuffled through her bag to find a smaller note to give to the thief, I was in a dilemma. I could quickly drive off, but it could be at the expense of the windscreen or I could end up hitting and injuring the man and the latter was too frightening for me.
But when the passenger tried to pass him a K100 note, he insolently refused to accept it, saying it was too little. Meanwhile, he was tapping the stone on the windscreen. Somehow, something happened to his feet and distracted his attention and I quickly drove off, but not before he snatched the money from the passenger.

 
A few days later, it would be a motorist in front of me who found himself in my situation on the same road. All I saw was a figure of a man waving a stone at his or her windscreen. I quickly left the scene to avoid being his next victim.
But months later, driving on Dalton Road in Limbe, in broad day light, there he was again! This time he wore a t-shirt. He was also armed with a stone which he, again, aimed at the windscreen.

 
Unlike the first time I bumped into him, yhere was a bit of a distance between the vehicle and him and
I didn’t have time to see if he was the same man I had met earlier because all I thought about was pressing my foot hard on the accelerator.
He gave way, but I know there will be a next time for him with me or another motorist as his victim. Would it be wrong for any motorist to just hit this thief?