Thursday feel good stories
Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories once again today. The first is from North Dakota;
Fargo Police say 32-year-old Eugene Fredrick Quinnett went in store and was digging around behind the counter.
A manager questioned him and Quinnett put his hands in his jacket and indicated he had a gun.
The manager then pulled out his own gun and Quinnett ran.
Thanks to a good description of Quinnett — police were able to locate him at a local motel.
The next comes from Arkansas;
Saturday night, Fort Smith police said 25-year-old Marcus D. Gould and 20-year-old Leon Roberson are in custody in connection with an attempted armed robbery at C & S Pawn Shop on South Thompson Street.
Officers said the two men came into the shop together with semi-automatic guns and started shooting. That’s when the employees at the shop fired back. One of the suspects was wounded in the exchange of fire at the shop, police said.
No employees were injured, officers told 40/29 News.
The next story comes from California;
At a home near Granada Avenue and Second Street, around 11:15 p.m. Sunday, officers were dispatched for an “unknown trouble” call. When they arrived, they discovered that a resident had armed himself against an intruder.
According to preliminary investigations, the resident reported that he had accidentally fired the weapon, but didn’t hit the suspect. The suspect then fled unharmed and climbed a tree to hide, but suffered an injury falling from the tree and was transported to a local hospital before being booked.
Finally, the last story is from Indiana where an armed homeowner held a getaway driver at gunpoint and helped police solve four other burglaries;
Police said they arrived at a house in the 800 block of Edgewood Avenue on the city’s North Hill around 5:30 a.m. Sunday to find the resident holding a gun on Holmes, the alleged burglar’s driver, whom he had lying on the ground.
Police arrested Holmes, charging him in connection with four separate offenses.
The Edgewood Avenue resident told officers someone had broken into his garage late last month and stolen guns and a hunting knife.
After that, he said, he installed an alarm system. He said the alarm went off Sunday and he could see someone in his garage with a flashlight.
The man said he went out to the garage and fired one shot into the air. He said a male ran from the garage onto Virginia Avenue. The resident said a blue Chevrolet Cavalier approached and stopped in front of his garage. He said he held the driver at gunpoint until the police arrived.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Gee whiz, I do wish reporters could learn to write a little better.
In the case of the Fargo thief, I’m sure the manager actually said ‘What the hell do you think you’re doing?’ after retrieving his weapon.
In the CA story, the use of ‘discovered’ implies that the polease persons were playing some kind of hide-and-go-seek game along with the ‘resident’, who probably had counted to 10 before he hollered ‘all-ee-all-ee outs in free’.
And the pawnshop thieves are hopeless idiots, aren’t they? Not only have they not learned the proper technique for robbing pawnshops, they probably used their own car, too. It’s steal a car first, then drive through the pawn shop’s front door and grab whatever you can. Then run or drive away like the hounds of hell are on your trail. Otherwise, the employees will probably shoot you.
Kudos to the IN guy, though.
The California case reminds me of the classic
“Well, did you hit him?”
“Sort of”
“What do you mean, sort of”
“Well, I hit the sign, and the sign hit him”
“Ah, fer…”
“He was limping when he ran off!”
“He was limping when he GOT here!”
From California where if they own guns they apparently shake a lot when they hold it:
According to preliminary investigations, the resident reported that he had accidentally fired the weapon, but didn’t hit the suspect. The suspect then fled unharmed and climbed a tree to hide, but suffered an injury falling from the tree and was transported to a local hospital before being booked.
NEVER have an accidental discharge! If your bugger hook is on the bang switch, be sure it’s aimed at what you want to kill or destroy.
Now the intruder will perhaps sue for falling out of the tree, which, shouldn’t have been there, should have been trimmed to avoid anyone climbing including neighborhood rugrats, etc. etc.