Your Easter morning feel good story
Chief Tango sends us a link to a local news story in Ohio in which a 72-year-old woman shot an intruder, Alex Melton, 26, of Youngstown, who may have been doped up, and then held him at gunpoint until police arrived to scoop him up and take him to jail;
According to police reports, the woman called police just after 8 p.m. Wednesday saying a man broke in and she had him at gunpoint.
When police arrived, they noticed a window on the front porch had been broken out.
When they went inside the home, they found Melton laying on the kitchen floor with blood on him. Police said it appeared he was under the influence of some type of narcotic, and they found a crack pipe in his pocket.
The woman was sitting on the living room couch with a revolver sitting next to her.
The woman told police she had heard her front door rattle and saw a shadow walk past the front window on the porch. She said she then heard banging on the window and glass break before seeing the suspect enter.
She went to her bedroom, got her gun and began to yell at the suspect to leave. She told police she yelled, “you broke into the wrong house” and “I will kill you.”
She said he began advancing toward her in a threatening manner, so she said she pulled the trigger and her gun misfired.
Luckily, the next round fired, and the woman lived to see the police arrive. The police determined that she didn’t hit the intruder with that single round, but that his injuries resulted from his forced entry into the lady’s house. Regardless, if she didn’t have the gun (that we’re told we don’t need) she might not have been around long enough to tell this tale.
Category: Feel Good Stories, Guns
“Shotgun” Joe Biden says she only needs to fire off both barrels of a shotgun out on her front porch in order to scare away bad guys. She coulda/shoulda done that.
No, no, Old Trooper. She should have pulled a bladerunner and fired through the door at him.
I did that twice this morning because I was so scared of the outside world knocking on my door. And let me tell you, it worked! I will never again have a Jehovah’s Witness problem at my house!
Father, forgive them for they know not what they do! Especially under the influence of crack!
Happy Easter … He is Risen!
Harbor cannon — loud, noisy, lots of smoke.
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I think she might need to get some fresh ammo and have her firing mechanism looked at. Don’t want to lose her the next time around.
Master Chief, this one is for you.
Firing the harbor cannon to inform the Harbormaster that the ship is in harbor and ready for inspection.
You may like this one, too. Firing the fog cannon.
The Coast Guard recently retired the oldest fog cannon known, purchased in 1719.
Once again demonstrating that the only reason most of us need to be armed is to defend ourselves. Few of us need to hunt down our sources of protein, but some of us will need to defend ourselves one of these days.
Even we who are isolated in our homes cannot escape an intruder intent upon doing us harm. Within a few miles of my own home (which is in a relatively safe area) there have been several home invasions in the past year in which elderly residents have been severely beaten. Some survived, some did not, but all suffered horrendous injury at the hands of irrational druggies.
There’s a good chance she pulled the trigger on an empty revolver chamber, but I agree with #6, she needs someone to help her with her firearm. Maybe we can get her together with the mom from GA who managed to put 5 out of 6 rounds into her target.
OFF TOPIC BUT OTHERWISE EASTER TOPICAL!
It was reported here some few weeks ago that US Army Chaplain Emil Kapaun (pronounced Ka?pon) is to receive, postumously, the Medal of Honor.(April 11 is the ceremony date.) Father Kapaun, a Catholic priest from Pielsen, Kansas previously received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Bronze Star Medal w/ V Device, and a Purple Heart for his Korean War service. The accounts of his valor, courage, heroism, and self sacrifice came from the men with whom he served in that war, both in combat and as prisoners of war. Father Kapaun’s faith and courage was legendary among them, and Christians and Jews regarded him as a living saint. In the Holy Roman Catholic Church he is now entitled to be called Servant of God, an early step towards sainthood. Like so many saints and American military heroes, he was an ordinary boy who grew up to become an extraordinary man. I hope that some of you will take few minutes to read about him. Google Father Kapaun. You will not be disappointed.
@1: Old Trooper, if she’d a fired a few rounds from a shotgun, the police might have shot her like they did this guy.
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/03/29/man-shot-wounded-by-officer-in-southeast-baltimore/