Sunday morning feel good stories
From Columbus, OH
Columbus Police are now searching for a crook who walked off with hundreds of dollars worth of cigarette cartons from a North Columbus convenience store. “They take Newports, some other flavors,” said Mohamed Razzaq, as he showed the empty shelves inside a storage room at Busch Center Smokes & More on Boardwalk Street.
Store surveillance cameras capture a stranger walking through the business on Labor Day, and then sneak into the storage room while no one was watching. Razzaq tells ABC 6/FOX 28 he confronted the thief when he noticed the culprit had cigarette cartons hidden inside his pants. “I say you have cigarettes, why you go in my office and take cigarettes, ” said Razzaq, ” he say no, I haven’t.”
Video shows the two men get into a scuffle inside the store. At one point, Razzaq can be seen waving a gun at the suspect.
“He go into my office, its my private property,” said Razzaq, when we asked why he pulled out a weapon. The thief attempts to run out the back door but quickly returns to the display cases when he cannot get outside. When the thief makes a break for the front door, Razzaq is waiting for him. After a second tussle between the two, the thief manages to slip away.
“If he is bad people, he go to jail,” said Razzaq.
From Denton, TX
Sometimes unloaded guns are the most dangerous?
A police officer was called to meet a woman at a Denton hospital. She told him she’d been shot, and her landlord drove her to the hospital.
As the officer questioned the woman, he discovered she had wounded herself. She said she’d been handling an unloaded .380 caliber pistol, and shot herself in the hand.
She conceded the weapon must have been loaded after all.
The woman will recover and no charges have been filed.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Poor Razzaq. Just tryin’ to make a living selling smokes, and some unpleasant person has to steal them. Razzaq, have someone working with you in the store from now on. And don’t tussle with the guy. Just knock him down and sit on him till the cops arrive.
What do cigarettes go for now? And you guys pay for the privilege of getting lung cancer and heart disease, and aging faster.
The lady from Denton seems like she ain’t too bright. Aren’t you supposed to check for bullets in the ejection seat before you start cleaning the gun?
It’s only the first rule of firearm safety- treat every gun as loaded until you personally check.
I remember smokes costing ten cents a pack and loosies were if I remember were a penny or two apiece. unstamped Sea store cartons went for a dollar or two once we got out to sea when I was on the OKIE 3.
Yep they were a buck a carton when we went out past the 12 mile limit…now I understand they are about 50 bucks a carton!
Seems like the first story is BAD news… the thief got away with all those smokes scot free. Without any info on the thief, the brand stolen is significant… unless anyone has ever seen racial diversity in Newport smokers. I haven’t.
Ex, here in God’s Country (Georgia) by the cartoon, name brand with sales tax, roughly average $50 USD. That’s your American Marlboro, Winston, Kool, Newport (and yes David, there is no racial diversity on those). Per pack 5.50-6.00 ea. For off brand, lotsa stems and harshness built in, your still looking at $20 + a carton, 2.50 -3.00 pack. FL is a few dollars more, Carolina’s is about 1/3 that, New York been told 10 – 12 a pack. I started cigarettes in basic 1971, they were $1.25 cartoon in PX, plus all the freebies in the C-Rats. Quit them 29 Mar 18 when I had my TIA. Nicotine addiction is the truly hardest to kick. Sadly, its not the tobacco that gets you, it’s the chemicals and flavorings that seem to cause most of the damage. That and genetics. While being poked and prodded back in March, they did 5 MRIs, 3 CAT Scans and 4 chest type x-rays. Technician did not believe I had been smoking that long and had very very little “lung damage”. Glad I quit cigarettes but would still kill for one now. Story 2: Dumbass, every gun is always loaded until it’s not loaded.
That’s not bad, I gave up smoking three years ago so had to look it up but a carton of Marlboro Red is $260.00 and a single 25 packet is $32.95ea.
Smoking is expensive in Australia
I quit 3 years ago so I actually had to look it up but a pack of 25 Marlboro Red is $32.95 and a carton is $260.00. It’s expensive to smoke in Australia
My mom never did smoke, she didn’t like it, but she said people quit all the time, none of the crap they put in them now…poison, the bastards want you addicted! A nurse told me its harder or as hard to quit cigarettes as it is heroin! I quit after 45 years in 2001, not on my own, had quit dozens of times it was easy! lol, but I prayed about it, I got tired of smelling like a chimney, going to church and sitting next to people that didn’t smoke, was a lousy witness..so the Lord having the sense of humor he does, helped me get a doozy of a cold, still tried to smoke, but coughed my head off, finally got mad, threw them in the trash and haven’t smoked since and no withdrawal or desire at all…that IS THE LORD…I can’t take credit, couldn’t do it on my own!
She conceded “The weapon must have been loaded after all”. That’s a damned roket sinetist if I ever heard one. Actually she was the major player in a fantasy I had for many years. Why can’t my ex read stories like this and get some ideas? That’s it, I’m going to send her a copy of this and tell her it’s a love story only SHE can make it a happy ending. For me.
You guys can laugh at the stupid lady who thought the gun was unloaded.
We in Anesthesia have been fighting this battle for years.
Even with a highly motivated workforce of nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists, even with mandatory continuing education, people are still being killed by the same stupid errors year after year.
It’s pretty basic to check that the system has oxygen in it and can generate positive pressure to ventilate the patient. Like checking a Glock before taking it apart.
People do the checks and see what they think they are supposed to see.
The same thing they saw yesterday and the day before that and the day before that.
But today someone changed it around and it’s not there even though they think they see it there.
So they pull the trigger on the Glock to take it apart and to their surprise it goes off.
So they start the Anesthesia case and to their surprise the circuit was filled with 100% nitrous oxide, or something is missing for the circuit and they can’t squeeze the bag and ventilate the patient and the patient dies.
It’s so simple that even a caveman could do it.
We see deaths from unfamiliarity with new equipment, boredom, inattention and simple exhaustion.
We have given up on the human element and are engineering in safety features into the Anesthesia equipment.
Guns have a long way to go in that respect.
I’m not talking about stupid magazine safety disconnects.
How about something simple like a place to rest your finger when you are not on target.
I like Springfield’s grip safety so it can’t go off unless you hold it properly.
How did Glock get millions of people to buy a gun that you have to pull the trigger to take it apart? There are plenty of striker fired guns where you don’t have to pull the trigger to clean them.
For all of “the safety is between your ears” babble, people are being killed every year by stupid, simple mistakes.
That could be easily solved by engineering solutions