Saturday morning feel good stories
In Santa Ana, California, Erickson Dumaual was sleeping in his own bed at about 4 AM when a couple of fellows turning their lives around intruded on his sleep demanding his valubles with a gun to his head. When the gunman, 19-year-old Bryan Bravo, took his eyes off of Dumaul, he made his move and wrested the gun from Bravo. Bravo came at Erickson despite his pleas not to do that, so Dumaual busted a cap in Bravo’s leg, then he pushed Bravo into his pool where police fished him out and took him to the hospital. Sometime during the struggle, Bravo’s partner un-assed the AO and police are still looking for him.
In Detroit, Michigan, a man took an evening stroll to the local ATM and encountered two other fellows who thought they needed his money more than the 50-year-old. The elder fellow, instead, pulled out his legal firearm and a gun fight ensued in which all three were wounded, but none had life-threatening wounds.
In Jacksonville, Florida, Navy veteran Byron Cooper found himself between an armed robber and a Walgreen clerk. he says that he gave the clerk a look; “I just kind of looked at her like, ‘I’m about to do something stupid, so run,'” and Cooper then wrestled the thief to the floor and then stabbed him with his pen knife until he stopped struggling. It turns out that the thief was a liar, too, he didn’t have a gun.
Category: Feel Good Stories
I like the Jax citizen who chose to do the right thing. He could have been the type that would back away, wetting himself as he moved.
And the dope who bluffed like he was in a poker game deserved to have his body sliced n diced, for later identification.
A good lesson learned from these “non-life threatening woundings, is that merely shooting “at” a body is not sufficient to stop the threat. I always try to do head shots in game, and do my target shooting, only accepting head shot sized shot groups. A friend of mine was shot 4 times and took the guys gun and beat his ass with it.
Normandy Blvd. Enough said.
I grew up on Normandy Blvd (Lawnview St…Lee High School). I fondled my first young lass in the Normandy Drive in Theater. Great place. Not sure what the movie was.
Kudos Cooper !
Awesome display of courage.
“Bravo came at Erickson despite his pleas not to do that, so Dumaual busted a cap in Bravo’s leg,”
I guess I understand Mr. Dumaual’s desire to be merciful. However I am a bit more jaded in my old age about these things. After someone’s put their gun to MY head and me getting it away from them and THEN they have the brass to advance on me yet again…uh no. I would have fired a round but it would have been in HIS melon. It is not that I do not have a strong sense of compassion and mercy, for those deserving it. But for someone putting me in that situation and be willing to take my life…no my mercy meter would be pegged at zero. However since I keep 2 legally owned firearms in my nightstand and no one would enter my residence without my knowing, I should never find myself in Mr. Dumaual’s situation.
Big thumbs up to the Navy guy, Cooper. Welcome in my neighborhood any time.
Ditto, the guy in Detroit City.
But the California resident, Mr. Dumuaul? He has my admiration. I just hope he wasn’t sleeping in the raw. I know it’s hot out there in his area, that’s all. He should, however, remember to lock his doors and windows unless he has no air conditioning.
Remember this, Grasshopper. Never bring a LIE to a knife fight.
I know that area of Santa Ana fairly well. It’s not what Mexican gangbangers would refer to as a “Varrio”, i.e. the are is not riddled with Mexican gangs.
Just a duo of half bit thugs who thought they could go into a nice neighborhood to intimidate and assault the locals. Glad they got their asses kicked and I hope Bravo is humiliated by the fellows in his “varrio” on account of getting the shit kicked out of him by a man well over twice his age. Punk.
There’s another bedspread. The phrase I love most “turning their life’s around”. It’s great that someone else helps them do it, however, not able to thank the MENTOR ?