Sunday morning feel good stories
From Philadephia, Pennsylvania;
An alleged would-be burglar called the cops on himself after an off-duty officer’s mother apparently shot at and struck the suspect, Philadelphia police said.
The unidentified suspect ran to a nearby car wash after the shooting early Saturday, climbed to the roof of the business and called 9-1-1, police said.
He suffered injuries from broken glass and a possible graze wound from a bullet, police said. The 43-year-old man was being treated Saturday at Hahnemann Hospital, where he was held in police custody.
The initial alleged burglary occurred sometime before 5 a.m. on Poplar Street near Watts Street in North Philadelphia, police said.
Officers found the suspect a couple blocks away on the rooftop near North Broad and Brown streets.
The suspect is stable at the hospital. The city police officer was not involved in the shooting, cops said. A weapon was recovered, police said, but it is not clear if it is the homeowner’s or the suspect’s.
From Corpus Christi, Texas;
A man in his early 20s is dead after investigators say he attempted to break into a home through a window. That break in happened early Saturday morning just before 1 a.m. at a home on Kimbrough Drive near Airline Road.
According to detectives, the victim was shot several times by a friend of the homeowner who was visiting at the time. Detectives believe the victim was trying to break into the home to see a girl living there. The man died at the scene before first responders could arrive.
Category: Feel Good Stories
News Flash for the “author” of the Corpus Christi story:
The scumbag who was DRT (Dead Right There) was not the “victim.”
The victim was the home he was breaking into. I hope the home didn’t suffer any injuries while the Taxpayer’s Money Savings Shot was being utilized as an OSC (On the Spot Correction.)
GMTA, Claw.
This idiocy of calling a perp the “victim” is widespread and the people who do it need to be called out. That said, good shooting.
One of my peeves as well.
Yes, just because some would-be criminal a-hole ends up dead in the course of his crime doesn’t make him a “victim,” unless you are saying he was a victim of his own stupidity.
From the CC, TX story:
“It is unclear if the shooter will face any charges at this time. Detectives are also investigating whether this is a home invasion or homicide.”
“An alleged would-be burglar called the cops on himself…”
Well, if that don’t smack the cheese flat! Real decent of him to call 911 on himself, isn’t it?
Sister Mary Grace pokes the alleged reporter with a No. 15 yellow pencil, to call the alleged would-be reporter’s attention to the misuse of the dictionary. Just ’cause you have one, that don’t make you smarter than the average mope.
EX; I still use Mongol # 1 & 2 lead pencils. The one at the computer is a Mongel # 1 and is 3 and three quarters long and I am hoping to get it down to two inches like the ones I used when I went to grade school. Also owned one of those pencils that one end was red and the other end was blue. Still looking for my bottle of ink eradicator.
The perpetrator of the crime was the victim of a non-criminal gunshot wound. The victim of the crime (home owner) delivered instant karma to the victim of the gunshot wound. The Perp was lucky that only one of his wounds was fatal.