Thursday morning feel good stories
From Worcester, Massachusetts;
Armed Bystander Rescues Woman Being Held At Gunpoint
From Bay City, Michigan;
[37-year-old Eric R. Weiler]’s conviction stems from a crime in the wee hours of Jan. 22 at the Admiral station at 2626 Center Ave. He entered the store and asked for cartons of Pall Mall and Newport cigarettes, which the 61-year-old male clerk put in a bag and rang up for $129.96.
The clerk tried running a credit card provided by Weiler, at which point Weiler grabbed the shopping bag and headed for the door. The clerk grabbed Weiler’s arm and a scuffle ensued, with the older man getting the upper hand.
Eventually, Weiler managed to free himself and ran outside, only to be pursued by the clerk. When police arrived, the clerk had Weiler pinned on the pavement.
The clerk told police he had pain in his left side and upper right leg, but declined medical treatment. Weiler had injuries to his right cheek and above his right eye and complained of trouble breathing, so he was taken to the hospital.
From Jackson, Mississippi;
The suspect who died in a Wednesday morning officer involved shooting has been identified as 30-year-old Elliot Reed.
The second suspect involved in the shooting has been identified as 26-year-old Chauncey Reed. Chauncey Reed was arrested and charged with aggravated assault on a police officer and capital murder.
JPD says “Chauncey Reed’s actions in the shooting involving Elliot Reed are what led him to be charged with capital murder”
The shooting happened just after 1 a.m. at the Valero gas station on Cooper Road. According to Sgt. Roderick Holmes, several shots were fired from both the suspects and the officer.
Elliot Reed was taken to the hospital where he died.
From Estill County, Kentucky;
WKYT-TV reported that Bobby Ray Osborne was talking to two men about a car they were supposedly interested in, but then they told him they had a flat tire and needed a jack to change it.
Osborne told the television station that when “the big boy” went to get the jack, “the tall, skinny guy” grabbed him from behind, got him down on the floor and began beating him.
“Then he yells to the big boy, ‘Get his money! Get his money!'” Osborne told WKYT. “The big boy is the one that reached his hand in and got the money. Soon as they got the money they took off.”
When a woman inside the business told the men she’d call the police if they didn’t give the money back, they returned $200 to Osborne. He said they kept $300.
But Osborne wasn’t finished.
He managed to pull a handgun on the two men.
When one of the men said, “Don’t shoot me,” Osborne said he replied, “I ought to kill you.”
He fired one shot but did not hit either of the men, who ran off.
State police were looking for the suspects Tuesday. One of the men reportedly left his driver’s license behind.
“I was putting up a pretty good fight to be 78,” Osborne told WKYT.
Category: Feel Good Stories
$129 for a carton of Pall Malls & Newports? Man, I am glad I quit smoking. I did smoke those Pall Malls though. No filters, people would bum a cig from me but would usually decline when they saw I smoke PMs.
I got the impression that there may have been multiple cartons of each brand.
Could easily be just one carton of each. That’s 20 packs total, or an average cost of about $6.50 a pack. Pretty sure that some places cigarettes go for that much – especially in locales that tax them heavily “to promote better public health”.
My neighbor smokes like a chimney, and $6 a pack will have him driving miles to purchase. Want to show your age? Tell a kid now that you remember paying $2… a carton.I am told in some locales like NYC, you can easily pay single pack prices of $12-15.
For we REMF Doorgunners in the Viet of the Nam, smokes were $1.70 a carton, but counted against your ration card allotment of four cartons a month.
Grunts in the bush (if out long enough) got theirs free in SP Packs on Log Day.
I think sea store cartons were either a buck or two bucks a carton which did not have tax stamps on them. The ship had to be a certain distance from shore for them to be sold. I remember 10 cents a pack and Loosies which my Dad used to send me to the candy store with a note to buy them loose for I think 2 cents apiece I think. The owner used to keep the loosies in a cigar box.
I paid a buck and a quarter for a carton of Old Gold in the commissary at Howard AFB in the Canal Zone. I remember when a pack of cigarettes sold for a dollar in the airport store and thinking that was outrageously high. Sundry Packs in Desert Storm were full of Salem menthol for some reason – I guess they were trying to get us to quit.
Phu Bai in 1967 the PX would have VERY STALE(BURNED LIKE STRAW) KENTS for 50 cents a carton and they didn’t count against the ration allotment.
Bull Durhams, $4 carton, FT Drum, early 90’s.
I used to buy a couple logs of Copenhagen and take them to the field when I was with 1/87. When the other members of my squad ran out, I would sell them cans.
I can’t remember how much it was, but I would not pay a lot for a log of 10 cans. I think that the prices now for half that are more than the logs I used to buy.
When I was in the Navy and we were out past the 12 mile limit ..smokes were 1.00 a carton!!
I’m looking right at the receipt from where I bought smokes on 15 Apr 18.
Three cartons of Pall Mall Menthol Kings were a grand total of $158.97.
Snake River Valley prices.
Be glad you aren’t up in the McCall area.
Bobby did put up a good, fight but should have hit one of those shitbirds with that shot.
consider it reckless discharge for missing.
I like this additional bit of news from the Kentucky article:
‘Our journalism takes a lot of time, effort, and hard work to produce. If you read and enjoy our journalism, please consider subscribing today.’
That’s right, people. Include the begging letter in the copy. It just adds a little spice to the story, doesn’t it?
Pall Mall, Old Golds, Viceroy, Lucky Strike,
Chesterfield Kings
Marlboro Lights in the hard pack.
Mother smoked Pall Mall unfiltered and her boyfriend Camel unfiltered. Both dead of emphysema.
Anyone remember the green label Lucky Strikes that were still around after WW2????
“I heard a scream, a guy scream”.
That is, the would be tough guy pointed a gun at an unarmed woman and when a bystander pulled his the tough guy screamed like a bitch and ran off