Friday morning feel good stories
Amy sends us our first feel good story this morning from Harris County, Texas where a fellow outside of his apartment complex was approached by a fellow brandishing a weapon, so the intended victim pulled out his own gun and perforated the fellow who is getting his new holes spackled at the hospital while police officers make more permanent arrangements for his room and board.
In Lincoln County, West Virginia, Wielding a pipe, 26-year-old Zachary Vance entered his neighbor’s home in a dispute over Vance’s dog. The neighbor, for some reason, shot his wall with a shotgun and injured Vance’s wife who was on the other side of that wall. The State Police separated Vance from his dog for an extended period of time and Vance’s wife’s injuries were declared not serious.
In El Cerrito, California, two burglars broke down the door of an 85-year-old man who immediately surrendered a bullet ringing the bell of one of the intruders. The two un-assed the AO at a high rate of speed, but, the police caught up to the wounded suspect, Shawn Mulberry, you know, what with his head injury and all. Police took him for treatment and they’re still looking for his partner. A few hours later, a relative showed up at the door of the 85-year-old, Harry, to intimidate him, apparently.
I keep telling you people that us old guys can’t struggle with you, we’ll just shoot you.
Someone sent us a link to the story of an 11-year-old who used a handgun to defend himself and his 3-year-old sister in St Louis, Missouri when a 16-year-old forced his way into their home. The police declared it an attempted home invasion even though there was no sign of a forced entry. Either way, the 16-year-old was DRT.
Jeff sends us a link about a story in Detroit, Michigan, where Joe Lanier was accosted by a teenager who tried to rob him while he was sitting in his car. Unfortunately for that teen, Joe has a concealed carry permit and exercises that right. He fired at the teen 7 times through the car window. The teen is in the hospital, but Joe is not. Joe works as an exterminator, if that’s not ironic.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Bet ole Joe can’t hear shit after letting off 7 rounds from inside a car.
I’ll say. Nothing rings your ears like rounds fired in a small space. I always wondered when I saw the movie “Pulp Fiction”, how Travolta’s and Jackson’s characters were just talking along normally after Travolta’s gun went off when they hit the pot hole or whatever it was and blew the kid’s face off. I’ve heard several weapons fired from a vehicle, even with open windows and my lasting thought was always, “HEY! You wanna wait until I stop and you get out to do that!” Such was the life of a teenage farm boy and friends out in the back forty shooting gophers and whatnot.
I was in the passenger seat of a Willy’s jeep (before they were called SUV), when the driver shot a deer through the open back doors with a 243. I think that was the beginning of the deterioration of my hearing.
One night, long ago, my partner and I were driving past an establishment that specialized in serving pimps and hos. One of the pimps came flying out the front door as we passed the establishment, pointing a gun at the Poh-lice(us). My partner, who was quicker than I, unleashed 4 rounds at him, through the windshield, which probably screwed up his shots. The bad guy wasn’t hit, he did, however, shit his pants.
I couldn’t hear for 4 days after that.
Harry’s neighbors are taking up a collection to buy a stronger gun for him, because the one he has ‘obviously didn’t do the job’.
I like Harry’s neighbors, and Harry is one hot tamale!
Hey, I thought you couldn’t have GUNZZ in La-La-Land? What did I miss?
Meanwhile … across town….
Arizona Man Shoots Himself in the Head While Trying to Demonstrate Gun Safety Feature
Moments after bragging about the double-safety feature on his handgun, and then attempting to demonstrate how it works, 23-year-old Phoenix resident Christen Reece shot himself in the head.
“You know, there’s not really a lot to the story other than don’t drink and shoot guns,” explains Jim Molesa, chief deputy of the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office, which is conducting the official investigation. Molesa says this very matter-of-factly and then immediately launches into a detailed account of what happened:
For Reece and six of his friends, Tuesday, September 2, probably started like any old regular night of bar hopping:
“They were partying in the Valley, and then when the bars closed around 2 or 3, someone said, ‘Let’s go to the high country and shoot guns,’” Molesa says.
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-man-shoots-himself-in-the-head-while-trying-to-demonstrate-gun-safety-feature-7624980
Mother Nature has a way of solving the worst problems, if we let her….
Virtual Insanity…Roger That! Mother nature does seem to clean her gene pool of the big floaters when needed. Just not often enough for my liking. Then again, she never asked for my advice.
“You know, there’s not really a lot to the story other than don’t drink and shoot guns,”
There’s some good advice right there
I’m still a little confused in the WV story. Why did the homeowner shoot the wall instead of the home invading perp Vance? And what kind of home has (presumably outside?) walls so thin that a shotgun shot injures someone on the other side? And what was Vance’s wife doing outside the homeowner’s home?
This whole story is totally FUBAR.
It’s West Virginia. Does that help?
I’m guessing instead of birdshot th guy might have had some buckshot rounds… 00 buck will blow through sheet rock like it’s not even there.
Re the kid in St. Louis – there are conflicting versions of it – in one version, the kid invited the 16 year old onto his porch and then shot him. Don’t think we’ve heard the last of that one.
I hadn’t heard that before commenting below. There’s no version of this story that isn’t gross negligence.
I think with a little common sense you can assume it was an apartment and the wall was an adjoining wall to the other apartment duh
The Californication story. . . when the perp’s relative showed up to (attempt to) intimidate Harry, Harry should have shot them, too. I presume that when said relative came to Harry’s house, he/she/it was NOT invited, and was therefore trespassing.
“People” (and I use the term loosely and maybe over broadly) like that should be exterminated like invading cockroaches with extreme prejudice.
B Woodman…got to agree. Losers and their loser friends do the intimidation crap to victims or witnesses’. As a victim, if one came to my doorstep, he would be DRT, as soon as he finished his threat.
St Louis. . . presumably the 16 y.o. invading perp didn’t have time to procreate and pass on his stoopid genes, so the gene pool is a little cleaner now, thanks to a “chlorine” pellet infusion.
(Unlike the 19 y.o. father of two who shot himself while taking a selfie)
Look at the bright side, at least he won’t be producing any more offspring!
That St.Louis story sounds awful strange to me. One person with the “dat cop shot dat boy in the BACK” story could be discarded but every neighbor within range?
Re St. Louis: Regardless of the outcome (and I’ll wait for the replay), in what universe is leaving an 11 year old and his kid sister unattended and with (apparently) easy access to a firearm something to feel good about!?
Yay negligence!