Monday morning feel good stories
From Cameron, NC
A Cameron woman says she shot her husband after he allegedly forced his way into her home with a handgun and assaulted her and a juvenile female, according to the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office.
WTVD reported that Jeffrey Hooks, 60, has been charged with breaking and entering to terrorize and two counts of assault on a female and assault by pointing a gun.
Deputies responded to the 160 block of Ramona Collins Ct. in Cameron at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday. It was there that Jeana Crawford told investigators she shot Hooks.
Deputies said it is alleged that the two do not live together. Hooks was taken to Cape Fear Valley Hospital with gunshot wounds and remains in serious condition.
The incident remains under investigation.
From CAMARILLO, CA
A woman who’d been held against her will in a California apartment managed to get her captor’s gun and shoot him in self-defense early Saturday, authorities said.
The shooting was reported around 12:35 a.m. PDT Saturday, and upon arriving, deputies found the man, identified as Raphael Bhatti, 25, of Thousand Oakseway. Deputies confirmed Bhatti had suffered a gunshot wound.
He was taken to a local hospital, and although serious, the wound was not life-threatening, authorities said.
Meanwhile, authorities were also dispatched at about the same time to the Villa De Los Robles apartment complex inThousand Oaks, which is nearby. The female victim was found at an apartment and also taken to a hospital for treatment of her injuries, authorities said.
Authorities said they learned Bhatti had held the woman against her will for several hours in an apartment. While the victim was in the apartment, Bhatti injured her, pointed a firearm at her and threatened to kill her, sexually battered her and used force to prevent her from leaving, according to authorities.
The woman was eventually able to take the gun when Bhatti was distracted and shoot him in self-defense, according to Sgt. Eric Buschow of the Thousand Oaks Police Department.
Investigators said they found evidence at the residence that backed up the woman’s statement, including two firearms.
Further investigation revealed Bhatti was a convicted felon with a criminal history in Virginia and Maryland, authorities said.
A records check of one of the firearms revealed it had been reported as stolen in Prince William County, Virginia. Authorities said they determined Bhatti was a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, a felony.
As of Saturday afternoon, Bhatti was still in the hospital and had not been arrested by authorities, although the investigation was ongoing. Bhatti was to be taken into custody once discharged from the hospital, Buschow said.
Category: Feel Good Stories
A convicted felon with a gun. So much for California’s gun laws.
Once they crack down everywhere else, California becomes Utopia.
Next on the CA agenda? Stopping their “brain drain” of departing refuseniks. Look for “exit taxes” and “ forward assessments”and “use fees for labor used elsewhere”
We should have gun laws that say that convicted felons can’t have access to guns; that’s what we need…Oh, wait…
The woman should have put a couple more rounds in “Ding Bhatti”….would have cleaned the gene pool a bit and NO tax money spent on a useless trial! imho
Knowing California they will charge the young lady for discharging a gun in the city limits and possession of a firearm without a license.
I did not notice this little story last week:
https://tribunist.com/news/armed-citizen-joins-shootout-after-cop-is-shot-by-suspect-wielding-automatic-weapon/
Yeah this was in this column previously. I commented on it previously because of the use of “automatic” in the story. I have not seen a retraction or correction about the gun being an “automatic” as opposed to semi-automatic.
I believe this is correct, because of the four wounds received by the police officer: “Officer Duarte was shot in his arm, leg, and abdomen.”
Ok Ladies, this is how you handle assault; modify by aiming center mass, follow up with a double tap. Don’t wait 36 years & write to a congress critter.
And while you’re at it, anyone whose last name is Batty most likely is.
While you’re sorting that out, just glad the lady shot the basterd.
Whatever happened to good manners?
The Whiz Wheel™® says calling him Batty is close enough to asking for a score, so:
Raphael Bhatti (SIBLDAM resulting in WRT) 23 x 6 = 138.
USMC DEVIL DOG!
A Chief was on leave, went back home and is driving around the back woods of Tennessee and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house:
Talking Dog for Sale
He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard.
The Chief goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador retriever sitting there….
“You talk?” he asks.
“Yep,” the Lab replies.
After the Chief recovers from the shock of hearing a dog talk, he says….
“So, what’s your story?”
The Lab looks up and says….
“Well, I discovered that I could talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so I told the CIA and they had me sworn into the toughest branch of the armed services … The United States Marine Corps… You know one of their nicknames is “The Devil Dogs.”
“In no time at all they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders; because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping.”
“I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years running, but the jetting around really tired me out and I knew I wasn’t getting any younger.”
“So, I decided to settle down. I retired from the Corps (8 dog years is 56 Corps years) and signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security, wandering near suspicious characters and listening in.”
“I uncovered some incredible dealings and was awarded a batch of medals.. I got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I’m just retired.”
The Chief is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.
“Ten dollars,” the guy says.
“Ten dollars? This dog is amazing! Why on earth are you selling him so cheap?” says the Chief.
The owner replies….
“Because he’s a liar! He never did any of that crap. He was in the Navy!
I owned a talking dog that was a mathmatical expert, so I ask the dog, what is two minus two so the dog said nothing.
I had a cat that could talk. Her name was Lily Vanillibean. I’d ask her questions, and she’d answer.
Me: What do you want, Lily?
Lily: Ninner.
Me: Is fish okay?
Lilly: Yow.
After she ate her fish:
Me: How was the fish, Lilly?
Lilly: Meh.
LITTLE KNOWN NAVY HISTORY!
OPERATION IVY BELLS!
In the early 1970s, the US government learned of a top secret undersea communications cable connecting two Soviet military bases and decided to tap it.
Operation Ivy Bells was an audacious plan that involved sneaking into Soviet territorial waters and placing listening devices on the cable.
Conceived by US Navy Captain James Bradley, the plan was based on the assumption that the Soviets, not wanting ships putting down anchors that could accidentally cut the cable, would put up big signs warning people away from their top secret cable.
The US mission worked.
When the specially modified submarine USS Halibut entered the Sea of Okhotsk, they found the signs, and divers were able to put listening pods on the cable 400 ft. underwater.
They returned every few weeks to retrieve the recordings and put fresh tapes into the devices.
In 1981, a spy in the NSA told the Soviets about the cable tap.
The Soviets promptly removed the tap, ending the entire operation. But it had been successful for almost a decade.
LITTLE KNOWN NAVY HISTORY! Most of you if not all of you know the story of the USS Indianapolis CA-35. USS Indianapolis was the flagship for Admiral Spruance while he commanded the Fifth Fleet in battles across the Central Pacific. The USS Indianapolis sinking led to the greatest single loss of life at sea in the history of the US Navy. On 30 July 1945, after delivering parts for the first atomic bomb to the US air base at Tinian, the ship was torpedoed by the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58, sinking in 12 minutes. Of 1,196 Sailors and Marines aboard, approximately 300 went down with the ship. The remaining 900 faced exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning, and shark attacks while floating with few lifeboats and almost no food or water. The Navy learned of the sinking when survivors were spotted four days later by the crew of a PV-1 Ventura on routine patrol. Only 317 survived. SOMETHINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT THE INCIDENT! – Captain McVay’s request for a destroyer escort was denied despite the fact that no capital ship lacking anti-submarine detection equipment, such as the USS Indianapolis, had made this transit across the Philippine Sea without an escort during the entire war. – Captain McVay was not told that shortly before his departure from Guam a Japanese submarine within range of his path had sunk a destroyer escort, the USS Underhill. – Shortly after the USS Indianapolis was sunk, Naval intelligence decoded a message from the Japanese sub I-58 to its headquarters in Japan that it had sunk an American battleship along the route of the USS Indianapolis. The message was ignored. – Naval authorities then and now have maintained that the USS Indianapolis sank too quickly to send out a distress signal. A radioman aboard the USS Indianapolis testified at the September 1999 Senate hearing, however, that he watched the “needle jump” on the ship’s transmitter, indicating that a distress signal was transmitted minutes before the ship sank, and sources at three separate locations have indicated that they were aware of a distress signal being received… Read more »
With a name like Bhatti, (sniff, sniff) I smell a muzzi.
Really? Not here.
It’s Indian referencing the Bhatti Tribe of the Punjab. Not Muslim but Hindu and Sikh. Don’t call a Sikh a Muslim. They are kinda touchy about that.
With being too lazy to look it up, can I get a short explanation on the difference between “sexual battery” and “sexual assault”?