SWEET AND ARMED

This is one teenager who will hopefully think about the path he has chosen, and which he will chose for the future.  I bet he thought he had an easy mark in an 85 year old women, a really brave young man.  Any bets his pants were damp during the phone call?

 

 

There is saying from our history.  "God made men, Col. Colt made them equal." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARMED 85-YEAR-OLD WOMAN FORCES INTRUDER TO CALL COPS

 

POINT MARION, Pa. (AP) — An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said.

 

 

 

 

Does She look like a victim??  She easily could have been.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Leda Smith said.

Smith heard someone break into her home Monday afternoon and grabbed the .22-caliber revolver she had been keeping by her bed since a neighbor's home was burglarized a few weeks ago.

"I said 'What are you doing in my house?' He just kept saying he didn't do it," Smith said.

After the 17-year-old boy called 911, Smith kept holding the gun on him until state police arrived at her home in Springhill Township, about 45 miles south of Pittsburgh.

The boy will be charged with attempted burglary and related offenses in juvenile court, Trooper Christian Lieberum said. He was not identified because of his age.

"It was exciting," Smith said. "I just hope I broke up the (burglary) ring because they have been hitting a lot of places around here."

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.  USA TODAY on line edition

ALCOHOL, GUNS & THE SHALLOW END OF THE GENE POOL

Something is so wrong with this story.  Human Nature some say?  If that is the case, I am surprised we have survived this long.  Sad to think, he probably also has a license to drive, and can vote. My Dad was a hunter and shooter, and I target shot and competed over the years, and I can never think of a time where I walked into a room where the first thing handy was a revolver or any kind of firearm. Now I am not saying I am from the deep end, but at the very least the gene pool was up to my waist!!   I think there is more to this story than Jorge says there is.   --JohnOh--

"YOU'RE NOT DRUNK IF YOU CAN LIE ON THE FLOOR WITHOUT HOLDING ON."
                                                                                            --Dean Martin--

MAN USES GUN TO SCRATCH BACK, SHOOTS HIMSELF

by Kimberly Durnan   The Dallas Morning News

FORT WORTH — A Fort Worth man trying to scratch an itch on his back used a revolver and accidentally shot himself.

Jorge Espinal, 44, was drinking beer and playing poker around 3 a.m. Sunday morning in his home in the 3500 block of Montague Street, when he got up from the table and walked into another room, said Fort Worth police Lt. Kenneth Dean.

“He told officers he had an itch on his back and grabbed the first thing he could get a hold of, which was a revolver,” Lt. Dean said. “The gun went off."

Espinal went back and told his buddies that he shot himself. “They didn’t believe him until they saw the blood coming down his back,” Lt. Dean said.

Espinal was taken to an area hospital where he was treated and released with non-life-threatening injuries.