Thursday feel good story

Here’s something a little less “feel good:” A guy named Nigel Sykes attempted to rob a pizza joint in Newport, Delaware. He was tackled by employees after firing off a shot that narrowly misses an employee and went through a garbage can. He was subdued by the employees until the police arrived. Sykes is now claiming that the employees and the police assaulted him and is suing them for $20,000 a piece. He claims the employees punched and kicked him and threw hot soup on him. When the police arrived, he said he was unconsciousness but the police handcuffed him and tazered him (which is why they are being sued.) A judge is letting part of the suit go forward. So the victims of this guy’s criminal actions are now going to have to hire lawyers, a trial will be held at taxpayer expense, and the guy (who admitted to the robbery) gets to stay in jail with three nice meals a day paid for by the people he is suing. Sykes also attempted to retract his guilty plea in a motion that was denied by a Superior Court: “In his motion, Sykes also wrote that he should be allowed to take back his plea because, “I’m not good at making good choices.” But here is the strange thing. In the article posted on Delaware Online: (http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2014/07/21/man-sues-pizzeria-thwarting-robbery-attempt/12967647/) there is a embedded link in this sentence: “The first time Nigel Sykes tried to get money from the Seasons Pizza in Newport, he did it with a gun, forcing his way into the business through the back door.” The embedded link is contained in the words “he did it with a gun.” Wanting to know more, I clicked on the link thinking it would take me to the original story on the robbery. It didn’t. The link takes you a story on Baretta moving its factory from Maryland. Now I know that sometimes these things are auto generated, but Deleware Online should not try to make the case or link to the idea that Baretta moving or legally selling guns is in… Read more »