Tuesday morning feel good stories
A thief in Detroit, Michigan thought a lone pedestrian would be an easy mark. He pulled up alongside waving a rifle and yelling about a stick up. Unfortunately for the crook, his target was an off-duty police officer who gave up ten bullets to the thief. The thief un-assed the area and showed up at the hospital later.
A truck owner in Albuquerque, New Mexico, caught a man and a woman trying to steal his F-150. He confronted the woman, Shantelle Vierra, who was in the driver’s seat. She threatened him with a machete. When the police arrived, she tried to run over the officer, but then beat her feet on the pavement and she was found nearby.
In Glendale, Arizona, Carol Miracle was accosted by Frank Taylor outside of a convenience store with a gun pointed at her head. The 23-year-old Ms. Miracle employed her own gun to shoot Mr Taylor DRT (dead right there). Then she went home and called the police to tell them what she’d done.
A burglar, caught in the act of burgling, struggled with a New York City police officer, during which the officer fired one shot “striking the man in the groin”. He got away for a minute, but he was captured by police.
Category: Feel Good Stories
The redistribution of wealth continues. Not as successfully as they would like, though.
“10 shots fired by a cop”, and the bad guy was able to take his own ass to the hospital? Range time works. If I fire 10 shots at someone, first, I would know that they are in my effective range before firing, and I would not be firing at anything but head or center mass. Proficiency pays.
Betting his caliber did not start with a 4
If your caliber starts with a ‘4’ you have a 4″ bullet… you’d need a decimal before it for handgun size.
I always wondered where “that guy” was that says 100% of the time ” I carried my POINT 45cal in a shoulder holster” “I got to fire the POINT 50cal MG as a Tank Commander on my M DASH 60 tank”. “My kid’s first gun was a POINT 22 rifle”…..
Obviously not a Slammintonio cop….
Most cops only fire their weapons during annual qualifying checks. What’s that old statistic? 99% of serving police officers never draw their sidearm during the course of their careers?
Should you be surprised you’re more proficient? 🙂
We had some officers that “never” fired their weapons…one we accused of having a spider living in the barrel LOL
With pistol & revolver, I always aim for center mass of the torso. I try for as small a group as possible.
The only time I ever try for head shots on a silhouette target is with a rifle. I try and remain proficient out to 300 meters with iron sights. A bit harder these days as I age, but I keep trying.
It’s good news week all around, people. A China-born employee of the FBI admits to being an agent for the Chinese government and funneling Top Secret material to them.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36952242
Nice to see my tax dollars at work.
Damn, two possible living Darwin Award winners within roughly a week. Good times.
Now, on to today’s armed citizen batting line analysis.
Today was a good day at the plate for armed citizens. We have a total of six perps (PAs). Of those, one was DRT (HR); two perps are in custody after treatment for lead poisoning via high-speed unsanitary and traumatic direct injection, with one perp receiving their lead injection in or near their junk; a fourth perp is in custody; and the identities of the other two perps (who regrettably appear to be still at large) are presumably known to police. Zero of the attempted crimes were successful.
In baseball terms, that’s a 4-for-4 day with an additional 2 walks (perps scared off prior to completing crime, don’t count as official at bats) – with the 4 hits consisting of a HR (DRT), a triple (groin shot), a double (wounded perp in custody), and a single (unwounded perp in custody). That’s an OBP for the day of 1.000 and a slugging percentage for the day of 2.500.
Impressive indeed – and a cycle to boot.
“Then she went home and called the police. .. . ”
That’s coolness under pressure. I like her style. And I’d hate to have her mad at ME.
“striking the man in the groin.”
That’s one way to clean out the gene pool.
BWAAAAH HAAAAH HAAAAH HAAAAAH HAAAAAH!!!
That must have stung a bit…
I bet he didn’t run far, either.
Just thought this was just too funny. From
http://www.policemag.com/cop-slang/d-r-t.aspx
1. D R T
An initialism meaning “Dead Right There”. Often used to describe the lifeless state of a recently deceased person. Synonymous with “A.R.T.” in most situations, but “D.R.T.” fits better when referring to the suddenness of a person’s death or a peculiar position in which they remained after death. Example: “I thought he was drunk, but he was D.R.T….”