Sunday Feel Good Stories
The Greenville Sun
Man Fires Gun To Scare Away Intruder
A man whose mobile home was being broken into about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday fired a gun into the ground to scare off the intruder, sheriff’s Sgt. Jeff Caudill said in a report.
The Camelot Park resident told deputies that he was in bed “when he heard someone jerk his back door open violently,” the report said.
The door was padlocked from the inside and the screws holding it in place were jerked out of the door bracket. Nothing was taken. The person who entered the trailer fled when the resident walked toward the door.
The occupant “also had a revolver and when he saw his door open, he looked first then shot is gun into the ground just to scare them away,” the report said.
The incident remains under investigation.
The Witchita Eagle
His roommate shot him. He was taken to hospital and then to jail, Wichita police say
By Jason Tidd
Wichita police arrested a man after he was shot by his roommate on Tuesday.
Reginald Dean Griffith, 47, was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of aggravated robbery and domestic battery, Officer Charley Davidson said in a release. Griffith was shot once in his leg, treated at a hospital then arrested after he was released.
Investigators determined that Griffith had battered a 28-year-old man, Davidson said. The man, who was Griffith’s roommate, had a gun. The roommate shot Griffith after Griffith tried to take the gun from him, police said.
Griffith remains in jail on $50,000 bond, records show.
Today’s FGS format wins. I haven’t heard from management about possible copyright issues, but I’ve taken a couple tips from Perry Gaskill and others. Thanks everyone for your inputs, much appreciated.
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“fired a gun into the ground”
Must have gone through the trailer floor first.
Unless the trailer has a dirt floor.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
“Shotgun shack” ?
The TAH Name Scrabble™®(Home Version) Thanks You for this format.
Although the Whiz Wheel hasn’t had to spin up any scores in the past week or so, picking out the candidates is much easier.
But just to keep the road wheels greased:
Reginald Dean Griffith (DAM*) resulting in WRT: 33 x 4 = 132
*Dumb Ass Move
This format looks good.
The issue I was talking about yesterday is Fair Use Doctrine, and there are many online explanations of it including a simple one on Wikipedia. Acceptable Fair Use includes using “portions” of published work for a range of things such as discussion or analysis. My own view is that if you publish an entire verbatim work of others, even if you don’t claim it as your own, you’ve crossed into what’s not acceptable under copyright Fair Use.
Ask yourself this simple question: If TAH runs a complete story lifted from, for example, the Greenville Sun, why would a typical reader want to go to the paper to read the identical original version of something he’s already read?
Since the Sun is likely supported by advertising revenue dependent on page views, it also seems to me it would be a legitimate beef for the Sun to object to having its news copy used for free in order to benefit TAH’s own page views. A better approach, call it a win-win, is for the TAH Feelgoods to act as a teaser for the original. If you read one, it makes you want to read the other.
I’m probably swimming against the current on this, but would point out that just because something is popular or easy doesn’t always mean it’s the right thing to do.
Thanks for the explanation, Perry.
Makes sense to me, Perry. Using the original story’s lede as an appetizer and then directing the interested reader to the original is sufficient attribution.
I enjoy reading the TAH’s synopses of various stories and thoughtful categorization such as DRT, DOT, and the recent DAB subcategory.
Jonn had a refined sense of humor, as do several other of TAH’s contributors.
The Usual Suspects, AKA frequent visitors to TAH, probably click on the link anyway, just to read the comments from the grieving friends and family of the miscreants. You know, he was a good boy; he was just trying to provide for his babies; he earned his GED his last stint in prison and was now planning on attending Johns Hopkins University; he loved to play basketball or football and was going to turn professional; and/or he was a perspiring rapper.
Fired into the ground!?
Waste of ammunition.
If the trailer owner had fired one into the perp, the police would have an easier time tracking and finding him.
“Who are we looking for?”
“Don’t know his face or name, but he should be easy to find. He’ll be the one with the lead pellet injection, probably some bodily fluids leakage.”
So remember, boyz and girlz, aim and shoot center mass. Easier to hit, and it helps the police to “find their man”.
The question is that if someone emails me about an article that was from another source and I paste it into the TAH comment window, am I violating a copyright law???
Credit the source and providing a link should do for starters. For finer points refer to Perry Gaskin’s comments. I’ve had to edit comments for these very reasons; Dave and Mark have enough on their plate as it is.
Cold case solved by DNA testing and Genealogy databases.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/cold-case-killing-of-florida-college-student-cracked-thanks-to-dna-genealogy-database-police-say
Gotcha!