Monday feel good story
Hondo sends us a link about a home invasion on Easter morning in Philadelphia which ended in the best way possible;
Police say 63-year-old Lee Heng told officers he had no choice but to open fire on two men who broke into his second story bathroom window around 1 a.m. Easter morning.
Heng was sleeping inside with his two children when the suspects broke in.
After a struggle with the two men, police say Heng got his gun and fired several shots, killing one of the suspects.
Surveillance video obtained by FOX 29 News shows the second suspect running away from the scene.
You can watch the lucky, if somewhat dimwitted, fellow scurrying away in this video;
Philadelphia News, Weather and Sports from WTXF FOX 29
Category: Guns
This is just so heartwarming on so many fronts.
1. Waste of skin no longer amongst us.
2. Neighbor down the street now considering getting a gun.
3. Person in neighborhood understanding about why he did it.
4. Store owner not facing charges.
5. Gun didn’t need to be registered.
I fail to see why there is so much glorying in these stories of criminals successfully repelled. Maybe they would have killed the old man, maybe they were just wretches looking to steal and run. One is dead. I’m as happy as anyone that the citizen comes out okay in this on all fronts, but a society where this goes on routinely isn’t much to celebrate. The average criminal doesn’t get the death penalty for a b&e in our civilized society, and incidents like these don’t scan like a leap forward to me.
@2 – “The average criminal doesn’t get the death penalty for a b &e in our civilized society”…..Really? When a criminal breaks into a law abiding citizen’s home while said citizen is in their home, the only reasonable assumption is that the criminal intends to do bodily harm. Therefore, deadly force is the only recourse left. Let some asshole break into my house and see what happens. I figure if I lock my doors, 99 out of 100 people will see that as enough deterrent to not enter uninvited. Out of that 1 %, 99 out of 100 of them will not stick around after my home security system kicks in. Out of that 1%, 99 out of 100 will go no further when they hear my 6 dogs raising hell. At this point if said miscreant is still in my home, he (or she) deserves everything that happens next. That is literally a “One in a million” (100 x 100 x 100) person in my home who I can only assume is there to harm me and mine. If a locked door, a burglar alarm, and 6 dogs isn’t enough incentive to leave, a couple of Remington 3″ Nitro Express #4 Turkey rounds out of my 870 will provide the final say on what happens next.
#2: would you post your address so as to test your theory?
Maybe they would have killed the old man, maybe they were just wretches looking to steal and run.
So the gentleman WHOSE HOUSE WAS BEING BROKEN INTO should have just waited to see what they were going to do? Sure, they might have contented themselves with roughing him up a little and that would be fine in your eyes?
The average criminal doesn’t get the death penalty for a b&e in our civilized society
If they had been arrested and it went to trial, no. But in our civilized society, you don’t break into people’s homes. And if you do, then the people in those homes have the right to protect themselves, their families and their properties.
And another thing, we are celebrating that a law abiding citizen was able to protect his family from someone who was out to do harm. Breaking into a second story window requires a bit more effort than coming in through a basement or main floor window. I feel no pity for someone stupid enough to break into another person’s house. As far as our society being “more civilized” I strongly disagree. Even during the Wild West (more of a fictional creation than anything) it was understood that certain types of behavior would not be tolerated and would be punished severely (hanging a horse thief or cattle rustler, execution of rapists, etc). Anyone who says that severe sentencing (and following up on it) is not a deterrent is smoking crack. You did not see this kind of stupidity back then because it was understood that if you broke into a person’s home, you would get shot. If you survived, you went away for a long time and had to make “little rocks out of big rocks” while you were in the big house. Contrast that with today, where likely as not, the homeowner has to deal with idiot legislators and law enforcement who attempt to prosecute the law abiding citizen. In addition, the criminal is made out to be a “victim of society” and, if ever prosecuted, is let off with a slap on the wrist to continue spreading mayhem. Well, to that I say, I am “society” and I refuse to accept responsibility for the criminal and stupid acts of others. As someone said on this website previously, “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!”
Isn’t it obvious? Early Easter morning. They were just getting a jump on the rest of the lovable imps for the Easter Egg Hunt. Better check the deceased for Arizona Iced Tea and Skittles.
I lurves me a story with a happy (hoppy?) ending.
“I fail to see why there is so much glorying in these stories of criminals successfully repelled.”
I am tired of being attacked. The punishment is insufficient to deter the original crime. If caught, the new punishment does not make me whole or deter the criminal from doing it again. I want a solution that prevents the original crime. Failing that, I want the criminal to be unable to repeat their crime.
Why is it glorious? Because after years of abuse, Mr. Heng’s solution does what I want for all law-abiding people – the criminal will not repeat the crime and the individual who got away MAY be deterred.
Good shooting by the homeowner.
How can you say it ended “in the best way possible” if one of them got away?
@2 – I do not have a gun, but I do have other means of repelling invaders, including a cast iron skillet sitting on the stovetop. I can assure you that I would willingly fracture the skull of any intruder. Should that be insufficient, I would subsequently, and also willingly, get the meat tenderizer hammer off my countertop and pound him into my hardwood flooring, and if that did not teach him a lesson, I would set fire to his ass.
If you have moral objections to someone defending him or herself, keep them to yourself. If we actually lived in a civilized world, which we do not, none of this would prove necessary, so I suggest you climb down off your utopian cloud and recognize that crime rates like break-ins are rising, not dropping, and any homeowner or apartment dweller should be willing and able to defend his/her self and property.
any homeowner or apartment dweller should be willing and able to defend his/her self and property.
And children.
If somebody breaks into my house my Rottweiler would not be happy. By the time I make it downstairs the criminal would be begging me to shoot him.
Disclaimer; my dog is not a vicious atack dog, he is just protective of my kids.
@11: Well, the homeowner is alive and we’re not footing the bill for one intruder. Also, there is a chance that the other person might see the error of his ways and repent.
Score another one for the good guys!
B&E at 1am in the morning + armed owner at home = ventilated punk.
Shame they don’t stay in school long enough to learn basic addition–and subtraction.