Saturday morning feel good stories
In Columbia, South Carolina, a masked and armed thief tried to rob customers in a game store. The business owner got into a gunfight with the thief who made a dash for the getaway car and got away all the way to hospital where the local constabulary introduced themselves to him. Apparently, no one else was injured during the exchange.
Devtun sends us a story from Norfolk, Virginia where an armed thief demanded money from customers at a wing joint. The owner came out of the kitchen and struck the thief with a meat cleaver leaving two deep wounds. The police caught up with thief at the local hospital.
UpNorth sends us a link to a story from Springport, Michigan a homeowner shot two 18-year-olds who tried to force their way into his house. They were DRT (dead right there). The police admit that there has been quite few break-ins recently in that neighborhood. My sense is that will decrease in the near future.
In Eagle Point, Oregon, Victorino Sanchez tried to swipe a bicycle. When the woman who owned the bicycle began screaming, a bystander leaped into action. He jumped on his horse, lassoed Sanchez and held him until the police arrived on the scene.
What?
I wouldn’t lie to you.
A homeowner in Pasco, Washington, was forced by events beyond his control to shoot a criminal who had forced his way in the house just as police arrived on the scene. The criminal was DRT (dead right there) inside the home.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Criminals are not as successful as they would like to be. In today’s run, we have one wounded by gunshot, one hacked with a meat cleaver, 3 shot dead, and one roped from horseback by a good Samaritan/citizen. Crime is getting more difficult by the day.
That is three more commemorative t-shirts to add to my wardrobe. Fo’ Shizzle.
That roper in Oregon – was he timed?
Did he hogtie the bicycle thief?
Is there a championship belt buckle for roping thieves? There oughta be one.
The story goes that he didn’t even have the bridle on his horse. Just unloaded it from the trailer and took off without the bridle. Horse, being a good roper, don’t need no stinkin’ bridle to catch a wannabe thug.
Shoulda branded him right there as a thief.
The story also claimed that once he had the perp lassoed, he dragged him across the parking lot to another area.
Bwahahahahaha
I don’t know whether the horseback lasso or the cleaver story made me smile more.
Now, for today’s “armed citizen batting line”. (The lasso incident is not included, as no firearm appears to have been involved.)
Five total perps (PAs); 3 DRT (HRs), plus 2 others wounded and in police custody (extra-base hits). That’s a 5-for-5 day with 3 HRs and 2 other extra-base hits. Well done.
And special kudos to the rodeo guy, even if he wasn’t playing “perp baseball”. (smile)
This is, quite possibly, the best Feel Good Stories yet. Cowboy Guy is epic.
I think I’ll have to agree. This is a goodun’.
(Especially like the three DRTs and the meat cleaver. If it was one like my dad used to use, the perp is lucky he’s alive.)
The 9th Circuit Court will free the lasso’d criminal after determining that the cowboy’s rope wasn’t properly registered…
Judging by distance between the perp and the horse in the above photograph, this appears to be a “high capacity” rope…
If it had been rubbed smooth and ready for roping, it could also be considered an assault rope.
OoH noes, ain’t they banned in California?
We may see more action movies featuring cleavers and ropes. Kids will practice with ropes and kitchen tools. Folk songs will hit the lists, yodeling may be involved. What a day……
Was it a black rope? They are the worst. Just like black guns.
Toss up, but I’m going with the meat cleaver guy. I hope he left a ‘lasting impression’ on the scumbag.
I used to frequent some sale-barns in Arkansas, there were plenty of cowboys working the pens and chutes, it’s an interesting business environment. Some of the guys would bring multiple horses and work them in a rotating schedule, shift work. One afternoon a load of brangus took a notion that they were going to have no part of the process and stampeded right through the fences, barbed wire and all, and were headed for I-40 in Conway, AR. In a cowboy flash, at least four, if not half a dozen, cowboys were in that parking lot and heading the bovines away from the highway.
There was some bleeding going on but there are always veterinarians on-hand at regular sale barns.
I am not even gonna ask why there was cowboy, with a horse, in a Walmart parking lot in Oregon. It just goes to show that there are regular folks just about anywhere you go… despite PETA and what media freaks try to tell you.