Wednesday Feel Good Twofer
Chief Tango sends us two feel good stories to get us through this hump day (Mike, Mike, Mike), the first from Tulsa when a man returning from a brisk Fall walk, noticed a disturbance in his home;
After a nice cool walk down South Columbia Avenue, Charles Sweeny realized something wasn’t right at home.
“My own mental alarm was going off because that drawer is always closed and it’s open,” said Sweeny.
He said he just walked back into his home and saw his mother’s old dresser had been opened.
“It didn’t come open by itself,” he said.
He picked up his gun on the way to that bedroom when he saw the burglar standing in the hallway.
“I quickly noticed someone standing in the entrance way to my bedroom. I just simply reacted, finger went on the trigger, clicked off the safety and I shot him three times,” Sweeny told FOX23’s Dontaye Carter.
Sweeny walked the news station around his home to show me how the man, police are not identifying, escaped.
“He made his escape by pushing my window unit out the window,” He said. “Taking a 12-foot high dive out my bedroom window.”
Another short story from Erie, PA;
Police say the victim was one of two or possibly three masked men suspected of breaking into a west side apartment Monday night. Police say a resident in the apartment opened fire.
A second suspect was also shot. He is undergoing treatment at UPMC-Hamot.
Police are still looking for a possible third suspect.
They say the residents of the apartment on West 21st Street were not hurt.
Category: Feel Good Stories
I can’t say that more range time is needed in either story. But I have to wonder what caliber and load was used in story #1? Three shots and the perp still lives? Maybe he’s learned his lesson and will use his remaining time on Earth more constructively.
I guess the press still hasn’t realized how retarded it sounds to award victim status to someone who gets shot while breaking into someone else’s house…only to reverse themselves in the same article and call the second “victim” a suspect.
#2 – This is the same press that refers to an AR-15 as an “assault weapon” and thinks Obama is ‘Teh greatest president evah’
Damn. Window units are expensive!
Oh one other thing. Robbers are not victims. The homeowner is a victim of the crime and the subject(s) or robbers get shot by victim because they are dumbasses.
The media can’t let it go and realize some people deserve to get shot, thus they are not victims. They become lawful recipients of bullets.
I sure hope the air conditioner will be alright.
I hope the “victim” enrolled in obamacare. Otherwise, he would be just left to expire somewhere, you know, the way people have been left sick and injured, just lying on the sidewalks all these years before obamacare.
@5 I’ve wondered about that, too. Maybe the news media insists on calling the perps “victims” because the news media engages in much the same activity — they push their way, usually unbidden and with the intent of taking something away, into other’s lives?
Sounds like he needs to put away his .22 or 9mm and get a real gun, like a .45 or something.
It’s called a “style guide.” Just about every newspaper & magazine have one, and it defines how one presents dates, counts (25 vs. twenty-five), etc. I would expect that paper tells reporters to use the word “victim” in that circumstance.