Thursday morning feel good stories
In Hollywood, Florida, two fellers attempted to rob a Domino’s pizza shop. A woman was managing that night, so they thought that it would be an easy caper. Unfortunately for them, one of the drivers was there, too. When the two fellers pulled their gun, he pulled his and one of the fellers was DRT and the other one took off as fast as he could. He might be wounded but the police can’t find the little coward.
In Goshen County, Ohio, a feller was looking for a way to turn his life around and decided he’d do it at an elderly woman’s home. She watched him as he knocked on her door. When she didn’t answer, he threw one of her own rocks at the glass door. By that time, she had retreated to her bedroom and secured her firearm and brought the weapon to life when the teen appeared at her bedroom door. I’m sure he slipped in his own waste product while he was trying to get away. Police are still looking for his cowardly, soiled ass.
In Stanly County, North Carolina, a woman saw a nutty fellow, Matthew Eudy, walking down the center of the road with a hammer in his hand, so she called the police. The nutty feller then crossed the road, broke into a man’s home and beat the occupant rather severely. The police still hadn’t arrived, and the nutty feller thought he was on a roll, so he went to another house and tried to force his way in. This homeowner wasn’t in the mood for getting a beating, though. He shot Eudy center mass, who ran into the woods where police found him. But he wasn’t through being nutty yet – even though he was well-ventilated, Eudy charged the police who then cuffed and stuffed his nutty ass. Now he’s resting comfortably at taxpayer expense.
In Kodiak, Alaska, the home invaders are nine-feet tall like the one Hamilton Long encountered the other night when he heard a commotion outside his home. When he went to investigate, his trash was spread across his yard and a bear was already in full charge at him. Mr. Long emptied his .44 magnum into the feller until he fell down DRT.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Adding to the Dominos thief’s bravado is the Dominos policy of not having any employee armed. Fortunately, this employee opted to disregard it.
Ok, since I’m in a snarky mood, today; when are the cries to restrict hammers going to come? You know, background checks, waiting periods, registration, etc.
I did not know that, Bobo. Pizza Hut, I just read, has the same policy. Great. So, you’re trying to make a buck delivering pizzas, probably working two jobs. The nature of your pizza-deliver job means that on any call, you (at a minimum) are carrying some cash, have a car, and food–and your company’s policy is that you may not be armed, despite the fact that you are working one of the 10 most dangerous jobs in the country. Screw that.
Let the asshole management cowards that came up with that no weapon bullshyt drive delivery! They wouldn’t do it!!
I’m fascinated by the North Carolina story: just break into houses of strangers and beat them with a hammer. That feller obviously had too much time on his hand.
Oh, the bear story! The problem with bears is that when they go out to dinner, they don’t clean up after themselves and they don’t tip the waitress. That’s a warning to other bears who want to visit that restaurant, you know.
Best Bear Story I heard was from one of the Series Commanders in my last Company on the drill Field.
He was from Alaska and his family had a small cabin, well more like a hut they would use when Hunting.
They kept some foodstuffs there ( it had a lockable door so they felt it was somewhat bear-proof.
They went up and a Bear,,, a good sized one evidently had busted open the door and ravaged their food supply.
They restocked it and Covered the Door with a large sheet of plywood.
They nailed it to the door frame and had several Nails pointing outward to thwart the Bear.
On there next trip up the Cabin had the inside ripped to shreds, the was blood and bear shit all over and they couldnt find a piece of the plywood or the door bigger than 6 square inches.
There was a film doled out by PBS some time back about a guy who spent most of his life in Alaska’s back country in a cabin he’d built. He built storage for his food supply, but to keep it bear-proof, he built it as a tower. I think it worked, although the narrator didn’t say much about it.
At Yellowstone National Park, they provide towers for storing food.
I’m reminded of the punch line to a story: The bear looked at him and said “you don’t come up here for the hunting, do ya?”
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Remember, bears are not real good at hosting house parties either (Goldilocks) and only serve porridge to their guests
But when they invite you over for dinner….
2 guys went bear hunting and were at a cabin, one went to find a bear, the other stayed to get situated in the cabin, pretty soon he heard a bunch of yelling and hollering, the doors were open in the cabin and his friend was being chased by a bear, right into the cabin…he yelled “here you take this one, I’ll get me another”! lol
“FELLER”?
I thought I was reading a story about lumberjacks.
By the way, I hate it when a video starts automatically, and I have to try and locate it in a hurry so I can just read the text.
On my own personal web site, “OUR ETERNAL STRUGGLE”, I won’t allow embedded videos to run automatically.
If someone wants to watch it, they have to choose to start it.
I second the motion, no more embeded videos they suck big time.
I like the embedded videos.
I just don’t like them starting automatically.
You’ll get over it.
I had Domino’s delivered yesterday, and was telling the driver how fortunate he was to be delivering pizza in Vernal, Utah, because anywhere else, delivering pizza was a dangerous job.
Also, Vernal is a White community (naturally!) and Black people are notorious for not tipping.
Re: the bear story – there are a lot of brown bears on Kodiak – the article estimates 3,500 on the archipelago. This one appears to be “habituated” to people. Think of a neighborhood bully that weighs 1,000 pounds with an IQ of 40 . One of the comments said that the city used to use steel dumpsters with heavy lids. The Kodiak City Council decided to replace them with new plastic rolling trash bins. The bears had a hard time with the dumpsters, it was too hard to eat trash in town so they stayed out in the bush. But the rolling bins have those “easy open tops” – they just knock them over and chow down. So now they have more bears in town and more bears are going to get shot. The guy was lucky. In most cases a 44 mag is not enough gun for a brown bear.
If a .44 magnum is not an ideal calibre for bear, then what is?
I’ve never encountered a bear when I was out prowling around, and maybe it was because I wasn’t looking for one.
I have run into moose and deer, VERY close to them, and VERY wary of the moose, with my weapon (a CAR-15 .223 calibre) at the ready, moving slowly, with my eyes on him all the way.
But, the moose knew he wasn’t on the menu, for it was deer season, and not moose season, and all he did was watch me as I was watching him.
My holstered service revolver is a .357 magnum, and besides my CAR-15, I have a Savage 110 bolt action 30.06 calibre rifle with a Deerfield 3X9 scope.
So, how safe am I in bear country?
Around here, we have grizzly bears and mountain lions.
I’m on a very limited pension, so I don’t have the option of purchasing more firearms.
Anyway, with all these hospital appointments, I don’t know when I’m going to get back up on the mountain again.
The name of the mountain is “Grizzly Ridge”.
We’re located where Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado meet.
This area is known as the “Outlaw Trail” country, because Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid had safe haven here, in return for agreeing not to rob any of the local folks.
Also, it was difficult for posses to get here, because there was no railroad, and outlaws could evade pursuit by merely crossing state lines into another jurisdiction.
Elmer Keith (inventor of the .44 Magnum) had a story about hunting brownies- he and another fella were on opposite sides of a draw. One shot a bear, which rolled it but the bear got up and charged. The other guy shit it, which caused the bear to swap ends and charge him.. first guy shot again, etc. He said they emptied almost full BOX of .375H&H (for anyone who doesn’t know, that is one of the most respected African game cartidges and is routinely used to kill elephant) into the bear before it expired.
Never been to Alaska but my understanding is that a .44 Magnum is considered a minimum bear cartridge. Might want to upgrade that .30-06, too… to say a hotloaded .45-70.
Only one tax payer relief shot.
44 Mag. About the minimum I think I’d want to use against a Kodiak brown bear.
Let’s see. What would be the next step up: 454 Casull, 480 Ruger, 50 Desert Eagle, Adidas running sneakers. . ..
Remember the Sacred Law of Bears: “It mattereth not whether thou canst out run the bear, only that thou canst outrun your buddy with thee.”
If I could find a .44 Magnum in an EASILY concealable, semi auto, I would carry it sometimes. Stopping bears on a full speed, hard charge means more than any gelatin block test to me.
I just bought a pancake holster from the AMAZON web site, and it’s very handy for easily and quickly putting on and taking off.
Because my weapon is a Ruger “Security Six” .357 magnum revolver, with a 4″ barrel, I think it’s too bulky to be concealed in that pancake holster (it’s an Israeli design), but when I wore it yesterday, it was not that conspicuous, or at least, nobody said anything about it.
I just pulled my T-shirt down over it.
For concealment (we’re talking about a full sized, large calibre service revolver), I use a left hand draw, soft, nylon, inside-the-pants clip-on holster (from Uncle Mike), minus the retention strap, worn in the small of the back.
In that position, the left hand draw holster has the butt of the revolver more readily accessible for a right hand draw.
When covered by a blazer or loosely buttoned BDU shirt, that rather large weapon is very effectively concealed.
When prowling around in the bush, I prefer wearing my Ruger “Security Six” .357 magnum 4″ revolver in a shoulder holster.
There are literally encyclopedias on the subject, but here, here’s a starter kit for you:
http://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2012/12/best-grizzly-guns-9-great-guns-brown-bear-hunting-and-defense
When I lived in and around the Kodiak Archipelago I had the opportunity to go deer hunting often. I used a borrowed Ruger M77 in .270 and a borrowed 30/40 Krag. The dang barrel on the .270 was long and seemed to get caught on every branch I tried to go under. Then I read Alaska Bear Tales where a hunter reported .300 WinMag lead bouncing off the bear’s skull and being embedded in his (the hunter’s) arm. When it was time to buy, I bought a Stainless Ruger Ranch Rifle and I had 2x 30 rd mags taped together. My thinking was: Short barrel, easy on the brush. Small caliber, small deer, minimal meat loss. In the case of a bear, lots of shots, and then lots of more shots while simultaneously reevaluating my non-belief in a deity. Luckily, I never encountered a bear while I was hunting or dragging meat. The only bear I ever surprised (and he surprised me too) was when I was completely unarmed. He beat feet in one direction and I did the same in the other. Bear hunting never interested me.
Bear story…I bet DRT is pretty close to what came out of that fella’s backside. I know it would have been out of mine if a charging bear fell dead at my feet.
Domino’s Pizza Delivery Driver Placed On Leave After Shooting Armed Robbers
http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/25/dominos-pizza-delivery-driver-placed-on-leave-after-shooting-armed-robbers/
He’ll be lucky if all they do is fire him.
While tenting in Glacier National park My brother asked pop,What do I do if a bear tries to come in my tent?” Pop says, “Reach down into the sleeping bag and grab a handful of poop and throw it in the bear’s face.” Ray asked what to do if he didn’t have any poop. “Don’t worry son, if a bear comes in you will have plenty of poop!” All this was said with a straight face.