Tuesday morning feel good stories
RGR 4-78 sends us a link to a different kind of home defense story from Sunapee, New Hampshire;
[80-year-old former Marine] Elsie Dabrowski went out to her chicken coop Sunday night as she does every night around dusk, closed up the coop and bent down to cut weeds with a sickle, said her son, Gene Dabrowski.
The [bobcat] lunged at Elsie, bit her left cheek, scratched her throat and bit her back.
“I kept thinking why? Why is it attacking me? It attacked me for no reason. I thought, ‘Why, why,’” said Elsie, a former Marine, on Monday evening.
Elsie beat the cat off her with the sickle, and Gene’s five dogs chased it under a nearby porch. He lives only 300 feet away in a separate house, heard the commotion, rushed to the scene and killed the animal with two blasts of a shotgun.
On Monday afternoon, state health officials informed the Dabrowskis that the bobcat was rabid, Gene said.
A good Samaritan story from Indianapolis, Indiana;
Officers were called to a residence in the 3400 block of East 26th Street, near North Olney Street, just before 11:30 a.m. It was initially believed that two people had been shot.
The female suspect, identified as Camille Wilson, 32, came to the house and met with the victim, who is also a woman. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) Sgt. Frank Wooten said a fight broke out at the home, and at least two shots were fired. One of the shots hit the victim inside the home.
A man who was there at the time tackled the suspect in the front yard and held her until police arrived. The suspect may have been pistol-whipped during the takedown. Both were taken to Eskenazi Health. The victim was in critical but stable condition.
From Jefferson County, Alabama;
Three people were shot at about 10 a.m. at the Black Diamond Paving on Old Jasper Highway. According to the report, an employee at Black Diamond Paving began investigating a car that was parked nearby. A man inside the car opened fire, striking the employee, who managed to return fire.
One of the three who were shot during the incident is believed to be a suspect in what might have been a robbery gone wrong. He had been struck in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene. A second was shot in the side and fled on foot but was captured shortly.
The third who was shot was found walking close to the business and was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Poor Elsie now has to go through rabies treatment. That will be hard for her at her age. I was always told not to shoot a suspected rabid animal because “they” were not able to check for rabies on a dead one. Sounds like bullshit to me, but I am not well educated in animal science.
. I took a knife away from a girl that was in a cat fight. That was scary enough.
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“A diagnosis of rabies can be made after detection of rabies virus from any part of the affected brain, but in order to rule out rabies, the test must include tissue from at least two locations in the brain, preferably the brain stem and cerebellum. The test requires that the animal be euthanized.”
Knew a guy in Germany that had to get the shots at Sembach. He cried each time he had to go there.
You don’t ant to shoot them in the head, because the brain tissue is needed, but they definitely don’t need to be alive..
Nothing like the old in the stomach shots,
“Today’s rabies vaccine requires fewer injections, are given in the arm and have few serious side effects.”
I kind of figured there was some kind of work around method.
“The bobcat population has been steadily increasing in New Hampshire since 1989, when the state put an end to bobcat hunting. Fish and Game last year tried to introduce a limited hunting and trapping season with 50 permits to be issued via a lottery, but the proposal was withdrawn amid public outcry.”
Shocked, “public outcry” (read: tree hugging, non-native New Hampshirites). If you live with predators you’re on the menu folks!
Wishing a speedy recovery to Mrs. Dabrowski.
That comment is appropriate for urban dwellers also. I’ll take my chances with a rabid bobcat over an inner city youth who believes that he is due to reparations because his ancestors may have once been slaves.
Nothing better than watching a little chickadee walk down the street in a pair of black capris with an ass that looks like two bobcats in a gunny sack.
Good Morning, All. Happy Birthday, America.
Presuming the intent is to cause grievous bodily harm my curative would be the same, lead with a copper jacket traveling in excess of 800 feet per second.
To the ‘logic’ of reparations, I have a good amount of English blood and no, you can’t have any! So most English where serfs, which arguably is like being a slave without value. Does anyone of a sane mind want to try to get compensation from the last vestige of English feudalism by suing the Queen?
I’m also Irish, and we all know how the Irish feel/felt about the Brits…
Those statements are based on white privilege and racism tho…
Reparations vs Forced Protection Monies by Violent Socialists-Sociopaths
We’ve got cougars and bobcats increasing around here. If one has been spotted there are at least five that no one knows about. Coyotes are out of control. I’ve been told by guys fishing for bass at a local lake that wolves have been reported in traps.
My deepest sympathies to Elsie. Never had to have them but rabies shots are no fun at all.
“The suspect may have been pistol-whipped during the takedown.”
Not nearly enough I’m sure.
While the law says that we can not eat them, it does not preclude us from tenderizing them a bit while we await the trash collectors.
I had the same thought.