Friday morning feel good story
Chief Tango sends us the feel good story for the day from Florida. A woman awoke in her bedroom to find a burglar trying to turn his life around with her stuff;
When Jane Rainboth was awaken from her sleep by a masked man peering into her bedroom, she reached for the black, semi-automatic pistol on her nightstand.
“I got a gun! I got a gun!” she hollered. But it was a trick — Rainboth’s gun was a plastic toy.
The would-be burglar turned heels and ran out the patio door, with Rainboth in hot pursuit down the hallway of her Deerfield Beach apartment.
“I guess if somebody tells you they’ve got a gun, you don’t want to stick around to find out if it’s real or not,” Rainboth said of the episode, which unfolded around 10 Monday night at an apartment complex in the 500 block of Trace Circle.
Category: Feel Good Stories, Guns
Now she better get a real gun. Since the story is out people know where she lives and that she only has a toy.
Any way to turn the autoplay video off?
Never, Ever pull or point a firearm as a bluff… she got lucky if that intruder had been armed or high or both she would most definetly be deceased… This is a stupid pet trick she got lucky and that’s what should be told. Like my Dad taught me never point a gun at anything you are willing to destroy.
@3 Amen! Never bluff with firearms! Never cover the trigger until you are ready to shoot, never aim at anything you don’t intend to destroy or kill and never, ever hesitate with warning shots and BS such as that. If you have to fire, make it count.
‘course, on the other side of the coin, the would-be burglar gets to explain to his buddies how he got punked by a middle-aged woman and a toy gun…. yeah, that’s a pretty picture. Wonder if he screamed like a girl as he ran, too?
@5 That’s the point. The next time he goes in to someone’s house, he’ll be armed. Thank you, idiot child with a toy, for making the next person’s experience a stroll through hell.
PintoNag – who knows, this may also have been the magic moment when the perp realized that “damn, that coulda been real and I could have been shot – I need a new line of work.”
Does happen…
That woman is category A stupid. If she had to use her toy gun, and of course she could not do so, that burglar would no doubt have taken it away from her and shoved it up her ass before beating her to death for pissing him off. What a dumbass.
Since he had a previous no show for court, my money says he will be a no show for this one. Mom or someone who knows as the good boy trying to make his life better will put up the bail. Should be $7500 or 10% of the $75K. Some else said it well. Now that he got punked, the next time he will be armed. I hope he is in an ass pounding cell with Bubba until he makes bail.
My gun is like a Gherka knife, if it is pulled from its sheath it must have blood on it. I have a rule. If I need to pull it, I need to shoot it. Nuff said. The lady’s mistake was telling someone her gun was fake. Now every punk in the country knows that she is unarmed.
She did what she had to do to defend herself. But yeah I’d either move or invest in a real weapon.
Yep, she better invest in a real gun now. Me, They’ll know I’m armed when I jack a round in my Remington 870, but that’s the only warning they will get.
I keep one in the pipe of all my home defense firearms. Lately the meth heads in my area are kicking in doors and beating the older people up. The Yutes are taking their money and meds. So better safe than hurt or dead. Joe