Friday morning feel good stories
From Omaha, Nebraska;
Officer O’Neil says, “According to the homeowner he encountered a burglar inside and fired a shot. The shooting victim was transported to CHI Bergan Mercy in serious condition. At this time the investigation is ongoing.”
The homeowner is identified as 60 year old Renard Lebron and the suspect is 25 year old John McDonald.
David Gilliam is a friend of Lebron and says last Tuesday two people broke into Lebron’s home. Gilliam says Lebron was repeatedly hit with baseball bats and had large bruises and bumps on his left arm from blocking the blows. He says Lebron was able to grab a long screwdriver and fended off one attacker with the weapon and both men took off running.
From St Louis, Missouri;
An armed burglar is in serious but stable condition after being shot by the man he was stealing from.
“The alarm company called me about 10:20 p.m. saying my alarm was going off,” said Willie Thornton.
Thornton said he was out when he received word something triggered the alarm at his Wells-Goodfellow home Tuesday night, August 29th.
So, he hopped in his car and rushed back to see for himself.
“I jumped out the car, walked up to the front door, and I hear somebody jumping out of the window,” said Thornton.
An armed burglar was caught in the act.
Thornton said he saw the man’s gun and grabbed his own, shooting the suspect as another thief ran away.
“I was just trying to make sure he didn’t shoot me first,” said Thornton.
From Pinellas Park, Florida;
Pinellas Park (Florida) Police said McMaster’s girlfriend, Christina Robles, opened the door for a stranger when he knocked on her condo door. The complete stranger asked her for directions to a nearby park. When Robles tried to close the door, the stranger pried the door open and started choking her.
She yelled to McMaster, who was asleep upstairs, for help. “I held over him and I told him follow my commands and if he didn’t then I’d go after him.”
McMaster first started punching the 17-year-old, then, he reached for the first thing in sight: A full size axe.
“It just so happened to be there. I had him by his thoat and he was down. He looked away for a minute I went and grabbed it and then he really got scared because he was afraid I was gonna hit him,” McMaster explained.
Instead, he held the teen with the axe for more than 5 minutes until Pinellas Park Police Officers arrived.
From Birmingham, Alabama;
Birmingham police are awaiting the recovery and release of a man from a local hostpital before charging him with armed robbery. The man was shot in both legs by a person he had robbed at gunpoint.
The incident occurred at the Somerset at Trussville apartment complex in Birmingham early Saturday morning, according reports from the Trussville Tribune. The suspect was transported to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries.
From Hazel Crest, Illinois;
Police said the officer was meeting the two suspects Tuesday night on Birchwood Drive before 10 p.m.
He thought he was buying a computer from them after the purchase was made online.
The police chief said a juvenile and adult man held the officer at gun point, went through his pockets then discovered his badge and gun on his belt. They tried to disarm him, but the officer cop grabbed his gun first.
The officer fatally shot the robber, who is believed to be a teenager. He was found dead between two nearby houses. Police said he had a gun in his hand and a key fob for the officer’s car in his pocket.
The other suspect got away and the officer was not injured.
Noises coming from his basement awakened Todd Trout early Friday morning at his home along Highland Avenue in Prestonsburg.
After checking downstairs, he saw the basement door was still locked, but when he checked it quickly became apparent somebody had been going through his tools.
Then he spotted a man crouched down hiding behind a furnace.
“It scared me,” Trout said. “It made me mad, everything all at once. Here I am in a pair of boxer shorts and a shirt, and what do I do next?”
Trout grabbed the first thing he found that resembled a weapon: a sledgehammer.
“I said ‘Pal, you’re not going through that door.”
He says he yelled for his wife to call 911. He kept his eye on the would-be thief until Prestonsburg police arrived.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Oh well, it looks like we won’t be getting any TAH Name Scrabble (Home Version) play today.
— sigh —
I guess the Kentucky thief decided to pass on letting the homeowner be his sledgehammer.
Happy to read the Illinois story, but pissed that I have to drive around the state or else disarm myself because of their draconian CCW laws.
“I just axed him to stick around until the police arrived.”
Hey Deplorable, your stealing my punie yolks. Now when the perp who was shot in the legs goes for the court hearing, he would not have a leg to stand on. (boy, this stuff gets better and better)
Do you kneed me to stand aside?
If you scroll down far enough on the page of the Illinois article, you can read a story (w/video and mugshots) of the two Darwin Award winners in Baltimore who pulled a armed robbery at a bar while there was a Police Sergeants retirement party going on there.
The one dindonuffin looks pretty rough after falling off a curb a few times.
But maybe Jonn will save that story for tomorrow’s Feel Good Stories.
Disregard. The story has disappeared.
Mea Culpa.
Claw, the story and mugshots are on the Weasel Zippers site. Joe
“I was just trying to make sure he didn’t shoot me first.”
A damn fine reason!