Tuesday Feel Good Stories
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For: Jeff LPH 3, 63-66
Restaurant manager shoots at robber, runs him off, deputies say
The crime happened at a restaurant in Eastover.
Author: WLTX
EASTOVER, S.C. — Richland County deputies are looking for a suspect who they say tried to rob a restaurant, but got stopped by its manager.Officers say 35-year-old Anthony James Summers went to a restaurant on Main Street in Eastover on June 3. Officers say he went there to rob the place, and threatened the manager as she was closing up. She got startled, and dropped what she was holding. As Summers snatched her belongings, however, officers say she pulled a gun on him.
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Read the rest of the article here: WTLX 19
Police: Off-duty cop shot man who attacked him in SoCal Costco
CORONA, Calif. — The deadly shooting at a Costco in Corona Friday night did not play out as initially suspected, police said Saturday, saying that it was actually an off-duty LAPD officer who opened fire after a man attacked him while he was holding his child.
Corona Police Department officers responded to what was reported as an active shooter situation at a Costco in Corona at about 7:45 p.m. Friday. Officers were initially able to confirm that the shooting involved an off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer assigned to the department’s Southwest Station.
Further investigation revealed that the off-duty officer was shopping at Costco with his family when a man assaulted the officer unprovoked. The officer was holding his young child at the time.
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I’ll add the two hospitalized family members if they were involved in the attack. The rest of the article may be read here: Fox 5
Mistrial declared in Alexander Weiss murder trial.
Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) – A mistrial has been declared in the Alexander Weiss murder trial.
Olmsted County Judge Joseph Chase made the determination after the jury in the case resumed deliberations after reporting they were at an impasse in the mid-afternoon following about 10 hours of deliberations. The apparent hung jury declaration came about two hours later.
The jurors began their deliberations Monday evening following the presentation of closing arguments over the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Mohammed Rahim by the 26-year-old Weiss in January of last year. The shooting occurred during a confrontation that erupted after a minor traffic crash and resulted in a second-degree murder charge against Weiss, who claimed the shooting was an act of self-defense.
The Olmsted County Attorney’s Office will now decide if it wishes to pursue another trial on the same charge, seek a conviction on a different charge, or drop the case.
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The rest of the article may be viewed here: KROC News
Today, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, brings us two morts, nobody inconvenienced, and one in the wind.
“We’ve lost elections before on this issue, which is not a winning issue for Democrats.”
Gun owner Bill Maher on gun control.
As requested, a Thompson is gracing the header in return for a sea story from Jeff LPH 3, 63-66. The stage is all yours, Jeff.
Category: Feel Good Stories
“dropped what she was holding. As Summers snatched her belongings, however, officers say she pulled a gun on him”
Look, a squirrel!
“…and 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.” HT to Meatloaf.
Prolly find Anthony by following the trail of fecal matter he left running off. Good on the girl for shooting at him. Would of been better if she had of SHOT him.
Did I read and comprehend the specs on that wanna be Tommy gun correctly? Is it a smooth bore? If the original was also smooth bore, no wonder Alan Ladd, John Wayne, et all couldn’t hit squat in the motion pictures. /s/
Smooth finish, not turned or fluted. If you believe Hollywierd, the most inaccurate weapons ever had to have been the A-Team Mini-14s… never hit anyone!
Also doesn’t have the cooling fins that appeared on the 1927 versions.
Neither did any of the WWII M1 models of the Thompson. They also ditched the Cutts compensator, the more complex rear sight and the top located charging knob.
Bid on one a couple weeks ago. Drum mag and violin case included. It went for over $2100 which is cheap according to the catalog.
Gotta find something to burn off all that .45 Ball buried in woods.
Another short story I am going to make long. When I started working for Brink’s back in 1970, the US Trucking building was located at 66 Murray Street in Manhattan. US Trucking did rigging and also owned an Armoured car business which had a merger with Brink’s. I was hired by US Trucking which still had the green trucks until the merger was completed within a year or so then the trucks as you see them today in NY are grey. The dispatch office had pics on the walls of guys wearing crushed hats,Sam Brown belts and what looked like riding pants flared out on the tops of those I think were called leather Putees above their shoes and were holding Thompson sub guns. Pics had to have been taken in the late 1920’s or very early 30’s before the 1934 NFA. The trucks, dispatch office, and vault were below street level and the locker room and business offices were at street level. Underneath the truck ramp, there was a small firing range that ran the length of the ramp and I was told that when the range was being cleaned out at one point before I worked there that 3 Thompson sub guns were found inside a case and that ATF were notified and were taken down the block to ATF at 90 Church Street which was also the big Post Office. When I was in the ARNG, 75-77, we had a member that was an ATF Agent who worked out of 90 Church St and on light duty due to an injury from a car chase. When working in the area and on a lunch or coffee break, I used to go upstairs and visit him and look at the display case with all sorts of neat stuff like de activated bombs, silencers, sawed off rifles, shotguns etc. 90 Church also had the Naval Convoy HQ’s in the building during WW2.
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IN regards to the Costco shooting. Multiple view points have emerged: One is the “victim” was non-communicative, but a gentle giant. The cousin states he would never hurt anyone…which is always what you hear from dog owners after their dogfighting breed attacks and kills someone. I don’t know anything about this mans condition, no article currently says what he suffers from, and I can only compare to certain animals (I am not saying he is one). The Off-Duty Officer supposedly had his child in his arms when he was “attacked”. He fired six shots, several of which struck the “victims” parents. Unless this Off-Duty Officer has no gun control he is failing to follow the 2nd rule: Be prepared to destroy what you are aiming at, and know what is behind it.
This story has a lot to develop, and much of it will be biased depending on which side you hear it from. Because it happened in California, we will likely hear the statement “why did he have to use six shots” which of course the answer should be because five wasn’t enough.
…we will likely hear the statement “why did he have to use six shots” which of course the answer should be because five wasn’t enough…..
Or, the respondent would be well advised to channel Polk County’s sheriff: