Feel Good Stories
Chief Tango sends us three, count ’em, three, feel good stories today, the first from Redford, Michigan where a pizza delivery guy turned around the life of a thief. It’s a sad state of affairs when our pizza delivery guys have to carry a gun;
When James Wethers heard three gunshots around 11:00 p.m. Monday night, he looked outside and saw a frantic pizza delivery driver and a man face down on the driveway across the street from his home on Gaylord in Redford Township.
Redford Police say the pizza delivery driver opened fire as he was being robbed by 20-year-old Tajuan Boyd.
Yeah, Tajuan didn’t get up.
The next story comes from Wichita where a woman was awoken by someone ringing her doorbell. It’s very polite that criminals are doing that now – I should get one of those doorbell things;
A 28-year-old woman said she woke to someone ringing the doorbell twice. When that stopped, she heard someone at the backdoor. Her 8-year-old and 2-year-old daughters were still asleep, so she grabbed her handgun and went to investigate.
She then found a man standing in her living room who said, “How are you?” She told him to get out of her house, and he started walking towards the back door. She said that as the man was leaving, he reached for something in his pocket and that’s when she fired a shot.
The third story is from Florida, where a man went to investigate an intruder in his backyard;
After grabbing a flashlight and his .357-caliber Magnum pistol, the 68-year-old Abele crept quietly outside and shouted to the would-be intruder that he had a gun. But the creature crawling on his deck in the moonlight was the last thing he expected to see.
The same could probably be said of the 200-pound, 6-foot alligator that suddenly sprang toward Abele from the shadows.
The next few moments happened in a heart-pounding flash, Abele recalled Wednesday.
“I was crouched down and looking around when he hit me hard enough to knock me into a planter,” he said. “The next thing I knew he coming at me with his jaws open, so I pulled the trigger with the gun barrel about 3 inches from the side of his head.”
Another happy ending brought to you by your local firearm distributor. I wonder if he’ll have a holster made for his new best friend from the ‘gator hide?
Category: Feel Good Stories
Thanks for the Threefer. All good ones, too.
Gator hide? Just a holster? What, no boots, too? I’d have a set made. And a new purse. And roast some of the meat.
The poor pizza guy. Was the pizza OK? What kind of pizza was it?
I would like to know one thing, because these breakers-in seem to come in through the door. Don’t these people have deadbolts on their doors? If not, why not? And if they do, why aren’t they using them? Hmmm….
I wonder if he’ll have a holster made for his new best friend from the ‘gator hide?
Hehe….that would be perfect! I like PH2’s idea too, why stop at a holster, how about a belt and wallet?
A follow up to the pizza delivery guy story, police arrested 3 suspects. Probably Tajuan’s getaway driver and his home boys, who were helping him turn his life around.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/10/24/police-make-3-arrests-in-shooting-incident-with-pizza-guy/
From the article at the link above, “Last year, a Jets Pizza franchise in Dearborn announced it would no longer deliver to Detroit after dark following the shooting of a 19-year-old delivery driver.” So, Detroit is so bad that even the Muslims won’t deliver in the city.
Florida guy is pretty lucky – think I read or heard somewhere that the brain on a gator or croc is very small and hard to hit. (I’ll let everyone else provide the obvious punch lines)
Hopefully there are no repercussions for the pizza guy. The last deliver guy to make national news for defending himself was fired for violating company policy. It was Pizza Hut I think.
Having grown up in Detroit, I can attest that Redford Township shares a border with Detroit. So I can understand why he’s going armed. My high school, in fact, had originally been the Redford Township High School until DEtroit annexed part of the township.
And don’t even get me started on Dearborn . . .
Kinda like the old joke in which a fella is convincing another guy about how safe his reputedly tough city is, and when the second guy asks the fella what he does for a living he replies “oh, I’m the tail gunner on a bread trick.”
@3 What, no boots???
My reaction to the Pizza Guy story: Egads. There’s a reason I don’t do that anymore (I used to deliver pizzas myself).
Dead perps don’t call lawyers and they don’t come back for revenge.
Second Story: was he armed? Why was he going for his pockets?
When in doubt empty the mag.
Third Story: Aaaaaaagh! Gators! Criminals are stupid. Gators are NOT. He’s incredibly lucky to be alive.
As for what I would do with it: Forget the gatorskin holster… I’d stuff and mount it.