Thursday Feel Good Twofer
Chief Tango sends us two feel good stories for this Thursday morning, the first is from North Carolina where a store owner was closing up and Joshua Chamberlain (no not that one from Maine, another one) decided to turn his life around;
“My first instinct was just to draw my weapon and fire on him,” said the store owner, who goes by Rocky. “Go home with my family tonight.”
Investigators say in the process of defending the store, the owner accidentally also shot his friend in the stomach.
“I wanted to secure his weapon. At the time I didn’t know my buddy, B, had been shot,” said Rocky. “So I just wanted to make sure this guy was secured and didn’t pose a threat to us.”
Joshua ran out of the store and to a neighboring house and told the folks there he’d been in a car accident, but when the police arrived they immediately noticed that a gun shot wound differs somewhat from a car accident injury. Rocky’s friend is expected to recover.
The other story is from Salem, Oregon where a younger man tried to turn his life around with an elderly couple’s stuff;
On Wednesday morning, John Rose, 82, and his wife Mamie, 83, told detectives they were inside their house on Ward Court Northeast when they heard someone trying to break in.
That’s when John Rose grabbed his gun and shot Garcia-Bonilla, deputies said.
The suspect is expected to recover.
Deputies told FOX 12 that Garcia-Bonilla may have had drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of the alleged crime.
Unfortunately, for Garcia, Mr. Rose is a former cop and teaches a school for private investigators.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Heard the NC story on the radio yesterday. First thought was, “Wonder if the store clerk’s ‘friend’ is still his friend”.
What is with this over use of “alleged”?? Sloppy, lazy “journalism” at best. Libtard bias at worst. Did the crime happen? Yes or no. Then it’s not alleged.
Did the perp commit the crime? Yes or no? Then it’s not “alleged”, it’s “accused”, until found either innocent or guilty.
Journalists – bottom feeding, scum sucking boils on humanity’s ass.
@2. Yeah, the qualifiers “alleged” and “allegedly” are overused and misused. It has long been a beef of mine. (Hey, that’s beef and asparagus for us today!) I understand why. It stems from fear of being sued for casting someone in a false light. But there are many, many ways to avoid using those terms while still protecting oneself. Moreover, there is much confusion, it seems, between what a reporter (or we) can personally conclude from avaialble evidence and what is admissible in court or what a judge or jury may decide. So, bottom line, I’m with you. Now, please pass the asparagus.
With a name like Joshua Chamberlain he must have been very popular growing up in NC
Hey B. Woodman. I just happened upon a perfect illustration of how a legal conclusion and old-fashioned horse sense are not ever to be confused. It seems a fellow named Miller, of Ohio, was declared legally dead in 1994 by a state court judge named Davis. Miller, however, was alive and appeared in the same judge’s court on Monday to seek reversal of the death ruling. Miller had been unseen and unheard from for eight years when Davis ruled him dead. Problem? I’d say so. Under Ohio law, there is a three-year limitation for such a challenge and it had lapsed. Thus, Davis was constrained from reversing his earlier ruling and Miller remains legally dead. I suppose the local newspaper would call Miller “allegedly alive.”
It did actually happen last spring that a reporter from a local news station was reporting on a sinkhole forming in a neighborhood.
It was, in fact, enlarging and swallowing cars while she spoke live, on camera, but she repeatedly referred to the sinkhole as ‘the alleged sinkhole’. It was fascinating to watch. The ‘alleged’ sinkhole’s edge crept closer and closer to her as the ground underneath it crumbled, and I wondered if it would swallow her.
Reporters should be barred from using words like ‘alleged’, and other words that they can’t spell and don’t understand.
I wonder what was the biggest contributing factor – the drugs or alcohol? HeHe!
Don’t bring an airsoft gun to a real gun fight.
Isn’t an airsoft gun an ‘alleged’ gun?
OFF TOPIC
A story out of Dee-troit today. Former mayor gets 28 years to contemplate his corruption while in office. He addressed the court at sentencing saying, in part, “I am incredibly remorseful.” Read that again. Can he possibly be that stupid? I wonder why the judge didn’t reply, “Yes, I agree. Your claim of remorse is indeed incredible.” You just can’t make this stuff up.