Sunday morning feel good stories
AW1Ed sends us our first feel good story for this Sunday morning. It comes from Missouri;
Around 9:20pm Thursday, deputies responded to a home in the 1000 block of Osage Parkway where the homeowner told police that he had shot the man, whom he knew. The victim, identified only as a 60-year-old man, was located just inside the front door of the home.
The homeowner told police that he and the victim had been in a prior argument. He claimed that the man had entered his home with a weapon and that he shot the victim in self defense. A weapon was recovered at the scene.
Chief Tango sends us a couple more stories, the first from Ohio;
The [71-year-old] North Side homeowner dialed 911 just after noon yesterday and gave his address. When asked what his emergency was, he replied, “Some … some guy broke into my house, and I shot him.”
He answered the dispatcher’s questions. Yes, it just happened. Yes, the man was lying motionless at his door at 1915 Faymeadow Ave. No, he didn’t appear to be breathing. No, he didn’t know him. The homeowner’s revolver was still in his hand.
“He kicked the door in,” he said.
After a minute, the dispatcher told him help was on the way, and he hung up.
Officers arrived to find the homeowner inside and the intruder dead on the porch. The door showed signs of being kicked in. The intruder was pronounced dead at 12:12 p.m. Sgt. Rich Weiner, a Columbus police spokesman, said it appeared to be a case of self-defense.
“Everyone has the right to protect their house,” Weiner said. At the same time, “it’s very tragic. It’s something he’ll have to live with.”
Finally, from Texas where some youngsters tried to steal some electronics from Lester Meeks;
“I just wanted to catch them,” Meeks says.
It was just as those teens were leaving when Meeks drove up the driveway with his daughter next to him. Meeks said one was standing outside drinking a bottle of Meeks’ liquor, another was on his way out a back window,
At that moment, Meeks, who has eight surveillance cameras rimming his property, decided to chase down the trio of teen thieves, with a handgun at his side.
“I grabbed my firearm and took after them and when I caught up to them I told them to get down,” he said. “I shot one round into the ground… to show them I wasn’t carrying a BB gun.”
Meeks said while holding two of the three teens at bay with his gun drawn, he dialed 911, but when he told the 911 operator he had a gun on the kids, the operator told him to put the gun down. Meeks said when he did, one of the two teens bolted off.
That teenager was later caught again.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Two down, a bagillion more to go.
ANd the world is a more peaceful place, beginning now.
Now I want to know what’s up with that Texas dispatch? Put the gun down, BEFORE the po-po arrive? What did he/she think would happen? That the perps would stay in place, like good little lambs? Not bloody likely. I’m glad that the yute was re-caught (most likely to be re-released, hence, catch and release).
Hmm. Atascocita is near Houston in Harris County. I kinda wonder about that dispatcher too.
Good thing the perps weren’t armed. If they were, the homeowner could have been shot and killed for following the dispatcher’s instructions.
Could be that the dispatcher/phone operator is a Progressive who lives in Houston, hates guns, and secretly hates the police. Or, that he/she should just be relegated to emptying the waste baskets and wiping the dust off the computer screens in dispatch.
I was thinking the same thing. That, or said Dispatcher is some rookie fresh out of school with no real experience or common sense!
you should also keep in mind the tendency of Houston cops to shoot first and claim “I was in fear for my life” later. Better advice would have been “keep them covered until the police pull up and then put your gun away IMMEDIATELY so you don’t get shot.” Otherwise you’re likely as not to have some triggerhappy HPD officer pull up, see someone with a gun and three ‘bodies’ on the ground, and decide to take out their ‘attacker.’
B Woodman…I’m with you my friend. While I understand these were teenagers, I think the “put the gun down” is a canned, decision tree response. If a dispatcher tells me to put my weapon down, my response is something like, “So, you got my six here lady? You have a weapon on him? Otherwise, pardon me if I keep MINE on him ’till an officer arrives!”
But of course, I don’t chase teenagers down the street with a weapon. I’m too old. Sooner or later, if they get away, they’ll try it again. Most intruders are older anyway and if they’re in my home, as I always say, “there’s only gonna be one story told…mine.”
From what I have seen from Houston courts they will be back on the street Monday morning…
Someone was just killed by a guy that was released the same day…
What will it take for these lib moron judges to realize their so called compassion costs lives?
“Someone was just killed by a guy that was released the same day…
What will it take for these lib moron judges to realize their so called compassion costs lives?”
Maybe when it’s one of those Libtard judges that are killed by one of the very same perps that they just released the day before. Maybe.