Thursday morning feel good stories
From Atlanta, Georgia;
Atlanta police tell news outlets the shooting happened Tuesday night, when a driver delivering Chinese food was stopped by two women in northeast Atlanta and two men then approached from behind.
Police say one of the men shot the driver in the back. The victim returned fire, hitting one of the men in the leg. Officers arrested that man a short distance away from the initial scene.
Police are looking for the two women and the other man.
Both the driver and the arrested suspect suffered not life-threatening injuries.
From Citrus County, Florida;
“I heard the door being forced back and forth, so I went to get my gun,” [Israel] Reyes said on Tuesday afternoon. “I opened the door, and I saw the guy in the entryway, and I drew my weapon and asked, “Who are you? What are you doing? Put your hands up — I have a gun.”
However, he said, the suspect did not stop or act in fear.
“The guy immediately acted like he was holding a rifle and screaming to ‘get down,’” Reyes said. “I fired three shots warning him to leave, but he kept trying to come through the door, so I shot three more shots.”
The suspect walked into the front yard “screaming he was special forces,” according to Reyes, who added that the man said his whole squad was surrounding the home to get “alienated dogs.”
“I drew the gun on him and made sure nobody else was out here, and then I spoke with the 911 operator,” Reyes said. “I told them he was saying he was hit everywhere, so when EMTs came they cut off his clothes looking for any injuries, and there were no wounds.”
Jennifer Wertz, the Circle K clerk in Albuquerque, New Mexico who shot a robber the other day says that she’d do it again, even though her employer suspended her for two weeks.
Wertz put her gun in her pocket after she heard that another nearby convenience store was just robbed. She said she was not behind the counter when a man barged in with a gun.
“We are not to chase or provoke. We are just supposed to stand there and give them what they want and they leave,” she said.
“So why didn’t you do that yesterday?” Cruz asked.
“I’m sick and tired of being a sitting duck,” Wertz said. “He pointed the gun at my face, I grabbed my gun from my pocket, I cocked it and I shot.”
From Cocoa, Florida;
This is the fifth time that store owner has used his gun in defense of his store and himself.
Store owner Sowann Suy temporarily closed his store after another shooting.
Suy said he fired a warning shot at a man after the attempted thief tried to beat him up and steal some beer.
A witness said the man came out of the door with a beer in each pocket, and Sowann was right behind him with his gun.
“I told him to give my beer back, and he ignored it. I pointed a gun at him, and he gave me my beer back, and I shot one bullet in the air,” Suy said.
Rescuers airlifted the first would-be robber shot by Sowann in 2009.
“He had a perfect right to defend himself; everyone does,” said Barbara Matthews, with the Cocoa Police Department.
In 2010, surveillance video shows Suy, gun in hand, chasing another thief, and in 2016, he shot pictures on his phone of a third robber lying on the ground with three of Sowann’s bullets in him.
“People are lazy; don’t want to work. They want easy stuff. That’s not right. You live in the United States, should be everybody has to work hard for it; earn your own money,” Suy told WESH 2 News.
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The suspect walked into the front yard “screaming he was special forces,” according to Reyes, who added that the man said his whole squad was surrounding the home to get “alienated dogs.”
I don’t even know where to start with this one…
Maybe another future TAH feature?
Yeah, we have some weird-ass people down here in Florida. I’d say it’s because of the water, but it seems it only affects some people. Maybe whatever is turning the frogs gay is what’s causing it.
I hope the perp has a Facebook account or something so we can see if he’s one of those high speed low drag SEAL posers or something like that.
Gentlemen…you cant make this shit up on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
We should definitely add something to the fecal 4 tourney as it applies to people under the influence of…..well, whatever……drugs, paint chips, tater juice…
If nothing else, its a good excuse to make popcorn and have a good chuckle over an adult cold beverage.
I have a water purifier under my sink which I use daily down here in S. Florida so I haven’t gone Bottz yet and do not plan to.
Alienated dogs – no, his dogs don’t like him any more than the guy whose house he tried to break into likes him. I don’t blame those dogs for being alienated. I would be, too.
He was probably really looking for his pet alien, the one he brought home from LV246.
Maybe he was the Son of Son of Sam…
Well, those “alienated dogs” aren’t going to get themselves. Someone has to do it.
Reyes needs to drop his weapon off at the local pawn shop and rely on neighbors and the police department for his personal safety. He wasted three rounds, calling them warning shots, then three more aimed at the criminal that never hit the target. Really man, just hang it up.
Warning shots are a complete and total WASTE of ammo!
I’d make an exception to that API, if the shots are a warning for the 2nd perp, as they impact center mass of the first perp….
MORE RANGE TIME!!!
No, no, no! He was protecting the alienated dogs! Didn’t want to hurt them. If he had, he’d be facing animal cruelty charges. They’re pretty strict about being mean to animals down in Florida.
Dear Mr “Special Feces”,
A few questions…..
What drug were you on at the time, where can I buy some, and how much will an ounce cost?
Sounds like some REALLY REALLY high speed low drag shit.
I haven’t ordered Chinese takeout since that one time when someone decided Chinese takeout for lunch at work would be better than pizza.
That’s just SO wrong! Chopsticks were not provided. The hot and sour soup wasn’t labeled, and it tasted like feet, anyway. The mandarin beef was so overdone it was like leather.
I can’t blame those people for holding up the Chinese takeout driver. They probably ordered wings and pizza and thought they were being robbed.
Seriously, takeout drivers have been getting hammered lately, so places that offer take-out food delivery won’t deliver unless you pay by your card when you order over the phone.
During the week, Meals On Wheels delivers my daily lunch.
But, sometimes, on weekends or holidays, I’ll use the Internet to order pizza to be delivered from Domino’s, paying with my Visa card.
They know me so well, that they don’t even bother calling me back to verify the order.
This is a small town, where everybody knows each other, and the population, like myself, is mostly white, Mormon, and armed.
“People are lazy; don’t want to work. They want easy stuff. That’s not right. You live in the United States, should be everybody has to work hard for it; earn your own money,” Suy told WESH 2 News.
Preach it brother.
AMEN to that!
There’s a very important lesson in the reaction of the Chinese food delivery guy.
About a zillion years ago, while employed at the Utah State Prison, I attended the Street Shooting Survival seminar.
One of the important points they emphasized was that if you’re shot, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re automatically dead, but if you can, you should continue to use your weapon.
It reminded me of the armed robbery at the Main PX at Fort Hood, Texas, when two armed robbers, one using a .38, and the other a 9mm, shot and wounded the MP on duty, who though down, returned fire with his .45, killing both robbers.
Jeez-Louise! He fires six friggin’ warning shots!
Puleese!