Thursday morning feel good stories
From San Antonio, Texas;
Early reports from the scene indicated the store’s owner was the shooter, and that the customer was accused of robbing the store at the time of his death.
However, SAPD later said the employee has had issues with the customer involved in the past, and that the customer has previously threatened to rob the store.
Police said the employee and the customer got into some sort of argument Tuesday, and the employee told the customer to “back away multiple times.” When the employee was “backed into a corner,” police said he shot and killed the customer.
From Buffalo, New York;
According to a Buffalo Police source, a parole officer shot a suspect in the leg. This happened around 9:20 p.m. on the 300 block of Northumberland Avenue.
The suspect is in custody, there’s no word on their condition. It’s believed police caught up with the suspect near Stevenson Street and North Legion Drive.
From Altavista, Virginia;
On February 24 at approximately 1:30 a.m., the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office received numerous calls on Ventura Drive in reference to an unknown subject banging on windows and attempting to break into residences.
The Sheriff’s Office received an additional call from a homeowner stating that a male subject was breaking windows and now entering their residence through a window. The homeowner fired one shot, striking the subject, who then fled on foot. The subject was later located had sustained a single gunshot wound to the upper chest.
Low rent criminal in Bonita Springs, Florida;
A man who pointed his finger in lieu of a firearm at a convenience store clerk in an attempted robbery had to leave empty-handed when the employee refused to comply Wednesday morning.
Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s help identifying and tracking down the young man who attempted to rob a Bonita Springs 7/Eleven shortly after 2 a.m.
A young male walked into the 7-Eleven, located at 4520 Bonita Beach Road.
The suspect, who covered his face with a red shirt, approached the store clerk with a pointed finger and demanded all the cash from the register.
When the clerk refused, the man ran out of the store empty-handed and rode a white mountain bicycle northbound on Imperial Shores Boulevard.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Had me worried there for a minute.
Pointed a finger at a store clerk and thought he could hold up a 7-11 that way? Okay, sure.
He forgot to hide it under “their” shirt, which was busy being a mask.
The clerk should have grabbed that finger and broken it.
He probably would have but for the crusted glob of boogers on the tip.
I don’t think that dude’s elevator goes to the top.
Was it a scary looking assault finger with the thing that goes up in the back?
I thought that it was just as funny that he made his escape on a bicycle. No wonder he’s robbing a convenience store – no gun, no car, no job.
Possibly related to these two stellar individuals.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/27/couple-on-run-from-police-bolts-straight-into-precinct-parking-lot.html
If he was wearing gloves, would that be considered a “silencer”?
That Texas shooting sounds like stoopidity on steroids.
(perp backing clerk into corner)
“What’cha gonna do? Shoot me? Huh? Huh? Yea? What’cha gonna do?”
BANG!
“Damn! Ya shot me!”
Who is in charge of language usage these days? I want to lodge a complaint about the use of the word “their” to describe a single person. Evidently news writers today do not want to tell us whether a suspect/subject is male or female, but really. What they do is tell us instead that there is more than one of them.
Could they simply ask whoever if they identify as a male or female today? They could have a little card from which they read, ala Miranda, which makes it clear that the subject is under no obligation to make the same claim later in the week.
I have a very good book on editing written by a friend of mine, who does go into that precise issue in one chapter.
She says it’s an partly issue regarding confusion by “authors” on whether to use his or her and partly just bad grammar, most likely due to poor instruction in basic English and bad habits.
Doesn’t solve the problem but it does explain it.
I’ve heard “their” in just ordinary usage for years, if not forever, in lieu of the traditional “his” for an unknown person.
I don’t like the way “worshiping” is supposed to be spelled with one ‘p’. That makes no sense; no one would spell the wood for sending a package or item by common carrier, ie, “ship,” in the continuing sense “shiping.”
Grammarly is a program free to all. The finger story gives new meaning to the expression :Flipping the finger”.
Doesn’t “their’ also mean something belonging to the individual? like Their family, their dog.. etc….?
“Pull my finger.”
Frrrrrrrrnt
Coffee, meet screen. Thanks alot. 🙂
They’ll get my finger when they pry it from my cold dead hands.