Thursday morning feel good story
Chief Tango sends us our feel good story this morning from Pierce County, Washington, where a rambunctious youngster well-known to the police, and not a good way, was observed trying to liberate some homeowner’s property;
A neighbor caught the boy trying to burglarize a home about 6 p.m. in the 17700 block of 84th Avenue East, and tried to ram the neighbor’s car while getting away, Troyer said.
The neighbor fired rounds at the boy, who was hit, and called police to say he was wounded in a drive-by shooting, Troyer said.
When asked how the homeowner would be involved in the investigation, Troyer said deputies were still interviewing witnesses Tuesday night.
Troyer said the boy is known to deputies as a burglar and drug user, but could not say if he has prior convictions for those crimes, because he is a minor.
Category: Feel Good Stories
I blame his parents for this, if they even exist.
Lived in that part of Pierce County. Nothing surprises me that it happened, either.
streetsweeper I live on the east side of the state. I NEVER go over to the west side unless I am carrying with my CCP card in pocket. That whole area on the I-5 corridor from Everett to Tacoma and further south into Portland is a shit hole of criminals. From hardened to wannabees, thugs, gang bangers, drug addicts and phony homeless, plus all the liberals in the state to help them be sure they are treated fairly of course. I HATE the liberal left side of this state. They control the voting through population and the conservative east side has basically no voice in elections.
Hold up darlin,
I live on the Westside and do my best to avoid the Eastside because of the reasons you cited.
I will agree that the neighborhood the crime took place in is a rotten place.
Maddie…no offense meant my dear. Just my experiences and preferences. There are many like thinkers on the west side. To imply it is all liberal is an overstatement on my part.
I agree. The west side of WA state sucks bad and I avoid it like the plague. I never feel safe in the I-5 corridor on the other side of those mountains.
Ditto what Sparks said. Us eastsiders get completely screwed every election. Which is why the east side of the state needs to secede and merge with eastern oregon northern idaho and some parts of western montana and make the state of Columbia. That way the god fearing, gun loving conservatives over here can finally have a voice.
Nigel…I will vote for that!
Nigel, as long as I’ve lived here that idea of a separate state has been floating around. I can wish but I don’t think it will ever make it through all the government bureaucracy it would take.
The withholding a criminal’s identity beceause he/she is a minor should be abolished. I can understand that maybe 100 years ago, there were some jurisdictions that were Law & Order/Hang. ‘Em High attitudes, and would send a kid off to the chain gang for breaking a window, but these days we are witnessing these incorrigible utes committing assaults, armed robberies, rapes and murders, and they whiny liberals want them to be rehabilitated. Meanwhile, the public is at risk when these thugs are released to their parent custody on “home detention”, where they return to terrorizing the citizens. And if they do eventually meet up with a homeowner that doesn’t vote Democrat, their Momma ends up on the evening news crying how much of an angel he was, turning his life around, and was going to work on getting that GED, so that he could attend Harvard Medical School.
Agreed. Public naming and shaming should be trendy again. And get the parents’ names out there as well.
I could see protecting their identity in a misdemeanor case. In a felony, you wanna do big boy crimes, you play by big boy rules.
IMO that should depend on the misdemeanor, NHSparky.
A 13 year old breaking a window? Yeah. A 17 y/o guy beating the hell out of his pregnant 15 y/o girlfriend (often misdemeanor domestic violence)? Um, not so much.
For misdemeanor cases involving violence or drugs/alcohol, IMO maybe no ID protection for juveniles is warranted.
Hondo +100 For greater offenses such as violence and felonies, they should lose the right to “minor” anonymity.
And this story does not have a happy ending because I do not see any mention of the word deceased….
Indeed, lets name the parents. Some of the best advice my old man gave me at age ??, was:
Keep it in your pants
Do not embarass the family name.
BOILING MAD CPO The problem is that unlike when we grew up there was a thing called, “shame”. For the offender, their family and within the community. One of the greatest virtues our nation has lost is the sense that anyone should be ashamed of anything they do. For generations kids have been told to NOT be ashamed of anything because they are good people “inside”. When I was in school it was a routine thing to hear a teacher say to someone, even me, “you should be ashamed of yourself for thus and so”, behavior or lack of effort, proper conduct or decorum. Those days are long since gone, NEVER to return. Even in prison, part of the “rehabilitation” process is to tell inmates to relieve themselves of the shame for what they did so they can move froward in life in a positive way. BULLSHIT to the Nth degree!!!