Sunday morning feel good stories.
From Goochland, VA
A New Zealand man who traveled to the U.S. home of a 14-year-old girl he had communicated with online was shot by the girl’s mother, a sheriff said Monday.
Troy George Skinner, 25, was shot Friday after he allegedly smashed a glass door and tried to enter the home in Goochland, Virginia, said sheriff James Agnew.
The Goochland County sheriff said Skinner bought a knife and duct tape after arriving in the U.S. The sheriff also said the girl’s mother saw a man trying to enter her home, warned him several times she had a gun, then fired after he broke the glass on the second door he tried to open.Skinner was struck in the neck and remains hospitalized, according to authorities.
“All I can say is the manner in which he attempted to enter that home in the face of a firearm pointed at him and the implements we recovered from him – the only inference is that he had very bad intent,” Agnew said. Agnew said Skinner will be charged with breaking and entering with a deadly weapon with the intent to commit a serious crime.
New Zealand police said they were aware of the incident and would be helping U.S. authorities as needed. New Zealand authorities say they’ve also been in contact with Skinner’s family and have offered consular assistance.
It wasn’t immediately known if Skinner has an attorney. His hometown in New Zealand was not given by authorities.
Category: Feel Good Stories
An older story but no less heartwarming.
Someone needs to teach mama to pull the trigger 2 if not 3 times…that dirtbag needed to be put under! Travel all the way from New Zealand to attack a little girl? No oxygen left for an a.h. like that imho!
Good parenting there.
“eyeing little girls with bad intent.” Shoulda shot the SOB a few more times b4 calling the cops, whupped the young’un and took away all computer rights for doing stupid stuff. Have fun at the BJT&T Deli!
I thought that phrase looked familiar.
It’s in the opening lyrics to Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung.”
“Sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent.”
We’re showing our age and our taste in classic music Claw. Figured somebody would key in on it. I have some of the same cuts that are on poly vinyl carbon, 8 track, cassette, disc, and USB stick. (grin)
Well, he didn’t meet the same end as the characcter in Ian Anderson’s tune – e.g., “snatch (his) rattling last breaths, with deep sea diver sounds”.
Whether or not that’s a good thing is a matter of opinion.
I saw them in concert once. Ian Anderson played the flute while standing on one leg like an egret.
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After spending a month in the hospital for being shot in the neck, Troy Skinner was released and booked in the Henrico (Virginia) jail with a Felony charge. He already had 2 Court hearings in the Goochland District Court, with the next hearing scheduled for 17 September 2018.
His mugshot is in this link:
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/362409/nz-man-troy-skinner-discharged-from-hospital-transferred-to-us-prison
Will gladly provide the rope, scaffolding lumber, rope, transportation, assembly, and counter weight for this POS. Also will provide switch and instructions for use to/on the parent. Trying to make up my mind who’s the biggest idiot, leaning toward the parent.
After looking at his mugshot, I’ll think I’ll shit can my beer mug because I just can’t grin and beer it.
Good grief, are kids being raised with no common sense at all?
I don’t think helicopter parenting is a good thing, but this online stuff is long since out of hand.
Glad to know the mother had some brass in her soul.
^this^ Sad ain’t it. Bastard wouldn’t have just been wounded inside my wire.
A few years back, there would have been no police report, no ambulance, no hospital stay. Just an inquiry from the parents in New Zealand, wondering if the police in Virginia knew anything about the mysterious disappearance of Troy Skinner.
:)de
She also had some brass in her gun Ex. And she was really brass’H about it. I just can’t help it. LOL
Point given and point taken.
The headline to this story almost writes itself:
Pervy Pedo Plugged by Plucky Parent
I bet he spent his time in the hospital bed whistling “Mule Skinner Blues”
Mom needs more range time and instructions in proper shot placement and the double-tab. Had she had that training and practice, there would likely be no Kiwi to offer contradictory testimony to her use of deadly force.
Double tap, dammit. A double Tab is two Coke drinks, I think.
Double Tab could also be when you pay for the drinks at the bar and the supper at the table. (grins, ducks, rolls, runs out door)
Henry makes a nice 45-70, easy to shoot too. One shot from that in the neck and that kiwi would be feathers!