Thursday morning feel good stories
We’ll start today with an update on a story a weeks ago that happened in a Subway shop in Augusta, Georgia. All we knew then was that an armed clerk shot an armed thief. Now, it turns out that the shooter was an armed Mom who didn’t like it when the thief beaned her son with a tire iron – that’s when she shot him DRT. The link above was sent to us by Bobo who noticed that a second criminal has been arrested for the robbery, and subsequently, his partner’s death.
In Mountlake Terrace, Washington an intruder was shot by a homeowner as he tried to enter the home. He was armed with a knitting needle. Police found the thief laying in the street and they had to resuscitate the fellow before taking him to the hospital.
Paul sends us a link from Graham, Washington where police responded to a call about a 36-year-old son was trying to break into his mother’s home. When police arrived, they tried to tazer him, but when he recovered he charged at them with a chainsaw. An unknown number of officers fired at him and he was DRT (dead right there).
Category: Feel Good Stories
Never use a tire iron when there may be someone there with a gun. And arming oneself with a knitting needle with the intent of robbing someone is the stuff of idiots; as is charging police with a chainsaw. Two dead, one really bad off, and a miscreant charged with his buddy’s murder. Is crime really that attractive a vocation?
You don’t use knitting needles to rob people. You use them to make afghans and sweaters and scarves. That is just dumb.
Are ya saying don’t bring a knitting needle to an iron skillet fight?
Was it a “sawed off” chainsaw?
An assault chainsaw. I am just trying to figure out where you mount the bayonet.
One of the chain’s links doubles as a bayonet lug.
It was one of those scary black assault chainsaws with a pistol grip and a thirty chain magazine. I thought they were illegal in Washington State, but apparently the NCSA (National chain Saw Association) has prevented that.
Obviously not my chainsaw if it started without 5 minutes of fiddling, profanity, imprecations, and invocations of dark deities.
Thanks for the good ol’ belly laugh, David. That was exactly what I was thinking when I read it. Good to hear my chainsaw ain’t the only one.
Did they say it was running? “But officer, the chainsaw wasn’t loaded…”
“Deputies located the wounded suspect, now identified as twenty-four-year-old Cornelius Lamar Harrison of Greensboro, North Carolina. He was taken to Augusta University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 1:19 p.m. An autopsy is scheduled in Atlanta for later this week.”
Really? An autopsy?
I would guess the cause of death was terminal stupidity secondary to high velocity heavy metal poisoning.
One – to see if drugs were in his system.
Two – (unfortunately) to determine if the shot that killed him is the one fired after he was unassing the area, which in some jurisdictions will result in homicide charges.
It appears that no charges will be filed against the lady. While this story is from a week ago, its latest update is from a few days after the story Jonn links above.
http://www.wrdw.com/content/news/One-suspect-shot-and-killed-at-attempted-robbery-at-a-Subway-390866092.html
Good shooting, Georgia Mama Griz!
Well, well, well, lookie here concerning our August robber. Isn’t this special:
http://gunmemorial.org/2016/08/21/cornelius-lamar-harrison
“Americans killed by guns
Real people, not just statistics.”
Chainsaw story is local to me. The CSO (chain saw operator) had previously attacked his parents and was under a restraining order. The father was also prepared to shoot if needed
But but, he was just turning his life around and was going to go to college in the fall. How else was he going to get money for school clothes!
On the Mountlake Terrace article: “Police found the thief laying in the street and they had to resuscitate the fellow before taking him to the hospital.” I might have just taken my time on the resuscitation efforts. But the police are trained to help, so I guess their training paid off for this jerk. May he have a long and painful recovery. This is fairly close by me (8 miles or so).
bet that genius with the saw wasn’t using a safety chain. If he was then the cops were in no trouble at all except for a case of rash.