Sunday morning feel good stories
MrBill sends us a story from Amarillo, Texas where a loss prevention officer at Home Depot confronted a shoplifter, 35-year-old Ricky Solis. The two had a physical altercation and a second thief tried to help Solis escape. A concerned citizen with a licensed handgun intervened when the second suspect kicked the officer in the face and went to get a tire iron out of his car. The second suspect consequently fled the scene, while the citizen held Solis at gun point until the officer handcuffed him.
OldManchu sends a link about shots were fired in Victoria, Texas during a home invasion, according to police. There’s no word on whether anyone was injured or arrested. In an update to the story, it turns out that homeowner was an off-duty cop, and the thief, Wade Austin Kloesel, entered the home through a window, but that he was DRT (dead right there) and left the home feet first.
In Houston, Texas, a homeowner saw a burglar trying to steal his trailer and his John Deere tractor that was on the trailer, so he shot the fellow twice, at least once in the arm. Police say that there was a felony auto theft warrant out for the thief’s arrest. He will probably survive to face trial and a jail sentence.
In Birmingham, Alabama, a homeowner found a 16-year-old burglar in the house when he returned from a night out. He shot the youngster and hit him at least once. Junior is being treated at the local medical facility for his non-life threatening injuries.
Robert Jerome Howard, 44 followed an off-duty Baltimore, Maryland detective into a local liquor store and tried to rob him with a replica handgun. The detective didn’t know it wasn’t a real gun and shot Howard. The thief was pronounced DOT (dead over there) at the hospital. Most newsworthy about the story is that Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis commended the off-duty officer.
Category: Feel Good Stories
He might have left the home ghost first.
Don’t go into the light!
Its a muzzle flash.
He may not have a choice if Hell is his destination.
I think I will dip my barrel an inch deep in orange paint. When the perp hesitates or laughs at my “toy gun”, I will get the drop on him……….
I wonder if that is unlawful.
Helluva great idea!!!!
Most newsworthy about the story is that Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis commended the off-duty officer.
As a resident of the Glorious People’s Republic of Maryland (Our motto: If you can dream it, we can tax it.), I have a feeling that Commissioner Davis only praised him because he was a cop. If it had been a regular citizen, he would have been admonished for “taking the law into his own hands.”
Perhaps I’m just too cynical.
I think to be fair, Davis has been put in a tough situation because of former Police Commissioner Blatt.
Blatt was the Commissioner when the Freddie Gray mess went down when the police were caught between the inept Mayor and Council members and the police union who takes the position of “no cop ever does anything wrong. Ever.”
Blatt has been caught having falsified documents and reports on use of police force against citizens.
Davis has to build trust within the ranks and with the citizens. That is going to be difficult to say the least.
His best option is to be forceful and truthful. When a cop does something right, stand up for him / her. When they screw up and do something wrong or illegal, work to discipline them or get them off the force.
There will always be citizens who won’t recognize and accept the truth just as there are cops who won’t recognize and accept the truth.
Most citizens and most cops will want to get rid of the bad elements in their midst and being truthful from the beginning is a good start.
Good people with guns, protecting life and property. When will the bad guys learn that we will not easily give up what is ours, whether life, limb or property?
Obligatory analysis: today’s armed citizen “day at the plate”.
Today was another good one for the armed citizen. Today, we had 6 total perps. Armed citizens rendered two DRT; another two were perforated badly enough to require urgent medical intervention and are thus hospitalized while awaiting incarceration. The fifth was held for police, and the last was prevented from completing his crime (assault with a deadly weapon) but got away – presumably with soiled underwear.
That’s a day at the plate with 6 PAs; the official batting line is 5-for-5 with 2 HR, 2 additional extra-base hits, and a single – plus a walk in the 6th PA. Damned impressive.
“And the world is a more peaceful place, beginning now.”
Dear bad guys, “off-duty” – it doesn’t mean what you think it means….
BHWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
I Love The Second Story ^^^^^
FEET FIRST
Let me guess, the families of all the perps…. errrr…. next of kin stated that each and every one of them were “good, churchgoing people” that “were pillars of the community”, right?
And how else were they supposed to get money for school and clothes, and food, and stuff….
They were such GOOD boys, just lookin’ to turn their lives around, getting ready for college.
Dey dindu nuffin, jes ast dey’s mommas.
You wouldn’t believe the story in the Victoria Advocate yesterday if you didn’t see it yourself.
Literally, it is titled:
“Mother: Son was trying to turn life around.”
Sigh…
https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2016/apr/17/mother-son-trying-to-turn-life-around/