Monday Feel Good Stories

| August 26, 2019

Off-Duty Baltimore Police Officer Fatally Shoots Armed Robbery Suspect

By Warner Todd Huston
An off-duty Baltimore school police officer and a retired Department of Corrections officer shot and killed an armed man who allegedly attempted to rob them on Saturday night.

The men told investigators that they were on Guilford Avenue at about 11 PM when the suspect approached them brandishing a gun and demanding their valuables, Fox 5 News reports.

In response, both men drew their legally concealed firearms and opened fire on the would-be robber.

The suspect was hit multiple times and ran from the scene. He ultimately collapsed on the 2300 block of Guilford Avenue.

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Read the rest of the article here: Breitbart

Grand Forks man fired shots into ground after walking into an alleged burglary in progress

Written By: Matt Henson
GRAND FORKS — A man here arrived to work Friday morning, Aug. 23, thinking it was going to be a routine day, but it nearly turned deadly after police say he interrupted a burglary and defended himself by pulling a gun and shooting it at intruders.

When the employee of Tri-State Paving came into work he wasn’t alone, according to the Grand Forks Police Department, which said he quickly realized it wasn’t a co-worker, but two men trying to steal some dirt bikes.

Grand Forks Police Lt. Brett Johnson relayed the employee’s account of what happened.

“(It) sounded to me like he confronted them from somewhat of a distance, and then he felt like they were closing the distance on him,” Johnson said.

The employee told police the men appeared to have a knife or club in their hands, so the employee pulled out a gun and fired six shots into the ground.

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The rest of the article may be viewed here: Grand Forks Herald

Man shot by homeowner during attempted break-in, police say

Erin Kirkland
FLINT, MI – A man is in critical condition after he was shot by a female homeowner during what Flint police are saying was an attempted break-in.

Officers with the Flint Police Department responded Sunday, Aug. 25 to the 2300 block of Kellar Avenue, between Dayton Street and Welch Boulevard, for a report of shots fired.

An initial investigation by Flint police revealed the man had fled the Kellar Avenue home where he’d attempted to break into a residence and was shot by the homeowner.

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The rest of the article may be viewed here: Michigan Live

Alrighty then Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, beginning the work week we have one who has perished from poor victim selection skills, one weepin’ and seepin’, and two in the wind.

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Toxic Deplorable Racist B Woodman

A horizontal trifecta. Not a bad way to start the week.

5th/77th FA

One less parasite in B’more. Betcha he still votes in the 2020 election. You’d think that with the billions in tax dollars we have provided to them they could hire a police force.

Y’all need to take the time to read the Grand Forks linkie article. For sure the expanded comments by the police Chief. And note, too, the full description of the perps.

Flint perp got the old fashioned lead poisoning v the water in the lead pipe type.

I “Like” the nice pig sticker next to the hand howitzer. More personal stock?

David

I was trying to ID… cartridges look too fat for .44 Mag so probably .45 Colt, making the N frame a 25-5, 625 in SS, with the old Goncalo-Alves grips?

Ex-PH2

Sister Mary Grace came back from her fishing trip to that Peaceful Spot on the Shore of the Fishin’ Hole to find this travesty:
“A man here arrived to work Friday morning….”

Should be: A man arrived at work Friday morning….”

How hard is that?

The byline implies that the “writer” of that piece has some sort of eddication, but he appears to be functionally illiterate.

So he gets a whack or 10 from Sister Mary Grace’s No. 15 yellow pencil and will have to stand at the blackboard rewriting that crap that he passes off as an opening line, until the blackboard is awash in his scribbling. What a dunce.

Perry Gaskill

The reporter is following a common style for newspapers, particularly those that do a lot of regional reporting. The story came from the Grand Forks Herald which is based in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

GRAND FORKS — A man here arrived to work Friday morning, Aug. 23, thinking it was going to be a routine day…

The “here” follows a Grand Forks dateline and lets the reader know that the incident happened locally. This is how the Herald changes things if a story is not local to Grand Forks:

GONVICK, Minn. — Authorities in Polk County are investigating a death in Gonvick, Minn., according to a press release from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

Notice the difference? Some papers avoid using a local dateline for local stories because it might appear redundant. Others use a local dateline because it maintains a consistency of style with non-local news items.

Ex-PH2

It’s still bad grammar. He gets a “D-“. The “editor” get a NEF if he goes along with it.

Perry Gaskill

The news item is written in a summary lede style which is normally supposed to try to contain the elements of who, what, where, when, why and how in a single sentence of 25 words or less. The style uses an inverted pyramid story structure, and was originally developed back in telegraph days for rip-and-read wire copy that could be clipped to fill available space. The “here” in this instance can be assumed to be acting as a shortened form instead of saying “Right here in River City, folks!” Or whatever. If the news item is picked up by, say, the Associated Press, the “here” acts as a pointer back to the dateline.

I’m also not having a problem with the prepositional substitution of “to work” instead of “at work.” The phrase “to work,” at least it seems to me, is a slightly better choice in that it implies a first arrival at work in the morning. YMMV

For what it’s worth, not all crime stories need to be written with a summary lede. One of the best police-beat reporters of all time was Edna Buchanan who often used a feature lede in her stories for the Miami Herald. Here’s one of her classics:

Gary Robinson died hungry.

He wanted fried chicken, the three-piece box for $2.19. Drunk, loud, and obnoxious, he pushed ahead of seven customers on line at a fast-food chicken outlet. The counter girl told him that his behavior was impolite. She calmed him down with sweet talk, and he agreed to step to the end of the line. His turn came just before closing time, just after the fried chicken ran out.

He punched the counter girl so hard her ears rang, and a security guard shot him—three times.

Lighten up, Fredo…

dave drake

Stories with happy endings are always satisfying!