Thursday feel good story
OIF ’06-’07-’08 sends us a link to our Thursday feel good story from Kansas City. A man heard a crash in his garage late one night, so he grabbed his shotgun and ran down to his garage and encountered a man with pliers and a screwdriver who had broken in his home. The two grappled around on the floor;
At one point, the stranger pinned the homeowner on his back and tugged at the shotgun. But the homeowner wouldn’t let go.
The stranger then told the homeowner, “I need your car. The police are after me!”
The stranger grabbed keys from the kitchen counter, ran into the garage and got into a vehicle. When the stranger reached into his pocket, the homeowner feared he was pulling a gun. The homeowner fired twice, killing the man in the driver’s seat of the vehicle. The driver’s door remained open.
Apparently, the man whose life has been turned around had been a broad crime spree in the neighborhood and was fleeing the police when he broke into the garage.
Category: Feel Good Stories
We need to save all the tax payer dollars we can! Thanks to the homeowner and good job in the tussle!
Soon as the bad guy came at him he should have fired. Lot of restraint shown by the homeowner but I’m gals it didn’t end with the perp getti g the shotgun and using it on the homeowner.
…And another one down, another one down, another one bites the dust…
Shame the car got trashed. Does auto insurance cover that?
Yeah, too bad that the car was damaged, but he did what he had to do.
It sounds like the homeowner is really lucky that the shotgun wasn’t taken away from him when the perp pinned him down. This situation could have had a very unpleasant ending if there’d been a different kind of criminal involved.
It is awful what happended to car!
Too bad about the car. There are companies that specialize in cleaning up crime scenes, wonder if he is covered under his insurance for that?
What’s not reported here is that a neighbor heard the commotion and was on the way over to help with his firearm, but got there too late for the ceremonies.
Gotta love Midwesterners with their guns.
“No such thing as too many guns or too much ammo.”
That happened about 2miles from my house, you don’t screw around in the northland. I think the guy didn’t want to kill him unless he had to. The criminal had stolen a couple cars already. You don’t break into houses in my area.
Looks like everything’s up to date in Kansas City.
Going to be fun trying to file a claim with the auto insurance.
Nah, this is a crime.
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