Friday morning feel good stories
AW1Ed sends us our first story this morning from Walnut Park, California where a pair of armed and masked men tried to rob a medical marijuana store. The owner pulled his own gun and fired about ten shots at them. A witness reports seeing both thugs being wheeled out of the store feet first, but there’s no word on their condition.
Poor Joshua Lamb of Brevard County, Florida is paralyzed from the neck down and we should feel sorry for him. Well, except that he was shot by a homeowner during the commission of a violent home invasion in which a woman was disfigured by Lamb’s own gunfire. So the judge sentenced his parents to caring for Lamb – six years probation and he can’t leave the home without the court’s permission. “Judge Charles Crawford…said he doesn’t want the victim’s taxes to support Lamb’s care in prison. “The state shouldn’t have to bear the burden; the family should. You threw your life away.”
In St Louis, Missouri, 20-year-old Tyrell Patrick tried to hijack a pickup truck. When him and the driver swapped places, the intended victim pulled out his gun and shot at Patrick at least five times, striking him once causing him to crash the truck. Patrick’s accomplices attempted to shoot the victim while they recovered Patrick. They were stopped by police and arrested, but Patrick was DRT (dead right there) by that time. The victim was treated for a gunshot to his leg.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Just Shoot em. When someone takes up the vocation of taking from others, whether it is their life, their livelihood, their friends and family, or their goods, they know that they are in a risky business. Just shoot em.
Yes.
One DRT is better than none, but aren’t the taxpayers stuck with having to pay for that goblin’s medical care and wheelchair? Pity he wasn’t a DRT.
Yes, and anyone who has taken care of someone who’s paralyzed knows that the judge sentenced the family to hard labor. Bad call.
Joshua is now known as ‘Mutton’.
SWEET! A ray of sanity returns to the judicial system. The judge sentencing the PARENTS of the paralyzed perp to care for him, not be put on state (taxpayer) aid.
But for the cost of one or two more boolits, the paralyzed perp could have been concerted to a “D” (DRT/DOT). Cheap at twice the price.
Good shootin’ all around.
Unfortunately, it’s really bullshit. The defense atty asked for him to be released to the custody of his mommy. The prosecutor said the guy should serve time in prison. If anyone thinks that the taxpayers are somehow off the hook for this guy’s medical care, well, that’s the way the judge wanted to make it sound, but it’s bullshit.
I agree with AC. The perp is responsible for his own actions.
One other thing. The judge cannot bind mommy to care for her bastard son. Thus, anytime she wants,she’s out.
Somehow I just can’t muster any real pity for this scumbag. Does that make me a bad person? Agree with B Woodman – it’s a shame he didn’t make the DRT/DOT Honor Roll. Now he gets to lay in his own sh*t forever.
That is one stud judge. Hat’s off to him
RE the Brevard County case, Lamb was sentenced as a youthful offender rather than an adult. That is what allowed him to be sentenced to the 6 years probation as opposed to the mandatory 20 years in adult prison.
Prosecutors wanted more as the injuries to the woman he shot ended up disfiguring her and caused her to miscarry as she was pregnant at the time.
Reactions to the sentence in the county are mixed. No one seems to want the state to pay for this guy’s medical care but no one seems to think he should not be in prison.
Paralysis brings it’s own problems and it’s even money that the state will end up caring for him in the future, anyway.