Friday morning feel good stories
Aysel sends us a story about a 78-year-old homeowner in Portland, Oregon who encountered a naked burglar in his home and promptly shot him. The burglar was still naked and laying in the homeowner’s fountain when the police arrived. They took him to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. According to an update from the Oregonian, the wounded man was a former NFL player, Stanley Wilson II, who played three seasons with the Detroit Lions until he was injured in 2008. Apparently, he has no prior criminal record.
Whitney Hughes broke into a home in Rio Dell, California and got into an altercation with the elderly homeowner. By the time the police got there, the homeowner had shot poor Whitney in the leg. The police took him to be treated at the hospital and then deposited him in the local hoosegow on charges of burglary, elder abuse, intimidating a witness, preventing the victim from calling for assistance, and false imprisonment.
In Fairview Township, Pennsylvania, a pair of thugs beat a middle-aged couple in their home. The husband didn’t like it much and struggled with one of the criminals over the gun they brought. He was able to fire three shots at the pair and they ran off – police say that DNA evidence they left behind indicates that at least one of them are wounded which should make him easy to locate. But, I’ll say it again – you should bring your own gun to the scene of a crime and you shouldn’t depend on a criminal bringing one for you. The couple suffered superficial facial injuries, but didn’t require treatment.
A man violated a protective order in Warren County, Mississippi by forcing his way into a home. After the resident fired two warning shots which didn’t seem to slow down the criminal much, he received a final warning shot to his leg which seems to have resolved his problem and the police hauled him off to jail.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Is there a limit on how many Lions you can bag in one season?
That’s backward, Hack. It’s not Lions if you’re butt nekkid doing a home invasion. It’s Hyenas, and no, there is no limit on the Scavengers.
I must say I’m impressed with the police in that CA town for being so direct about blaming the bungler – er, burglar. Ditto in Oregon. Bagging a nekkid ex-NFL player committing a home invasion goes high on my list of trophy critters. I guess Mr. Wilson was doing his laundry, maybe?
Is it just me, or is there sunlight creeping slowly back into LEOland?
Would you want to “stuff” and “mount” the “horn” of that naked scavenger on your wall?
ummm…no, just no.
Interesting…Rio Dell was my first full time job as a police officer! quiet town if you don’t count the domestics and the bar fights LOL (at least back then!)
Perhaps the bad guys should find out if the homeowner has a weapon before intruding on their privacy to rob, or otherwise harm the residents. Recovering from a wound while in jail isn’t the best way to spend one’s time.
You might think that ending your career with the worst team in the history of professional football would be the low point in your life, but it seems like Stanley has found a way to dig even deeper.
Note to criminals, due to the increase in the cost of ammo, I will not waste money by firing warning shots.
With anecdotal evidence indicating that handgun ammo is not capable of stopping a bad guy on the first tap, I suspect my “warning” rounds would be the first two to center mass.
Then the one to the ocular region would be the “I was serious about that ‘NO’, bubba.”
Word.
Folks need more range time. Glad no-one seriously hurt!
You effing shoot someone and they go to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries?!?!
WTF people – range time and caliber check.
My first two shots into the sternum of the perp is a warning to the other perps, if there are any.
Center mass hits are more effective that leg hits. Just sayin’.