Monday morning feel good story (ADDED)
Chief Tango sends us a story about a young man who turned his life around in Essex, MD as reported in the Baltimore Sun, but this one is a little different from the rest wherein two gentlemen broke into a house, and shot the homeowner in a scuffle;
Lt. Rob McCullough, a county police spokesman, said two armed men broke into the apartment and, in the process, a man in the apartment began to scuffle with one of the suspects. The suspect shot the victim several times, but then the victim picked up some sort of blunt object and struck the suspect in the head with it, killing him instantly, McCullough said. The victim was taken to a hospital in serious but stable condition after the gunshot wounds, McCullough said.
You have to make sure the tools that you take to the job are up to the task at hand. I’m guessing the victim was probably shot with a .22 caliber handgun if he was shot “several times” and still had the wherewithal to clobber the youngster. Regardless, Essex, Maryland is marginally safer tonight.
ADDED: If that one didn’t do it for you, here’s one from Bubblehead Ray about a young man who tried to turn his life around in a Waffle House in Georgia;
Union City police say they were called to the Waffle House on Jonesboro Road just before 2 a.m. Monday.
Officers said a man went into the restaurant waving a pistol and demanding money. Someone inside the restaurant shot the man, police said.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Multiple gunshot wounds need not be from a .22cal to be survivable… See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_Incident
@1. I was just about to make a similar comment. Short of headshot, a lot of it boils down to the victim’s will to live/fight. I wouldn’t make a call about the caliber used until the police report is out.
“Hi. Welcome to Waffle World. May I take your order?”
“Yeah. See this? Give it up.”
“Robbery. Table 6!”
“Blam! Blam! Blam!”
“Carry out. Table 6!”
Rule #38A – Don’t bring a Saturday Night Special to a fight with a blunt object.
Rule #38B – Don’t drag a gun to a Waffle House or an IHOP. Or Cracker Barrel.
Ridiculous. Going to an Awful House for something other than drunk food?! Almost unheard of.
The strange part in all of this is that someone at Waffle House was sober enough to shoot straight.
I hope the Waffle House night manager comp’ed the customer who shot the perp, and then waited until that customer left before calling the po-po.
“Who was that customer? Don’t know. He paid cash & then left before I could call you.”
Add on joke: “Eats, shoots & leaves.”
Hey! I used to like Waffle House! (We don’t have any here — just IHOP.)
That does it! I’m going to Cracker Barrel and have their Sunday chicken dinner.
#9 Ex-PH2
Don’t forget to “pack”.
A link to all types of stories about those trying to get their lives turned around:
http://thugreport.com/
instead of dine and dash lets see dine and die maybe hum???? 🙂
The Noon news said there was an off duty Atlanta PoPo in the Waffle House when the gunman came in, and he pointed his weapon at the officer when he saw him. The patron beside the Copper then pulled HIS weapon and shot the YMTHLA twice. They’re “think” the shooter was an off duty security guard, but I’m betting it was just a GWL holder exercising good judgement and proper gun control.
That, and Longmire is on tonight after taking last week off. Gonna be a good Monday.
“then the victim picked up some sort of blunt object and struck the suspect in the head with it, killing him instantly”
And that’s why we shoot folks who are attempting to strike us in the head with objects, even a sidewalk. 😉