Strange night last night...

[Fuddy1952]

I worked as a medic for 20 years. We responded to a call for person shot. Sheriff deputy met us at the ambulance and told us it was fatality. We went in to confirm, the brain matter every where made it an easy confirmation.

Two guys were crying and just carrying on. Asked the deputy what the story was? All three guys were co-workers. Two of them had been out drinking and knew that the other co-worker was home alone and decided that they would sneak into his house to prank him. Well, as you can imagine, drunks aren't the quietest people in the world and the homeowner heard them in the basement (he always left the outside basement door unlocked and the co-workers knew this). The homeowner thinking he was being burglarized grabbed his pistol and started down the hallway. The two drunk coworkers decided that one would get on the shoulders of the other and stick his head up through the laundry drop chute and scare the homeowner.

Well, it worked. He scared the homeowner (his fellow coworker), the owner was startled and thought he was being attacked/robbed, and fired a shot right through the guy's head. The homeowner was not charged.

Newspaper headline:
"Inebriated prankster loses his mind in laundry scheme".

I'm sorry...disregard...

 

[lman]

Not advisable to shoot somebody stealing your car.
Woman who shot & killed car thief did not have right to shoot, legal experts say

 

[Macinnis]

"In Missouri, the castle doctrine extends to the outside of your home"
Oh really ??

Apparently, Mark and Patricia McCloskey (St. Louis) also thought that to be true!
They are now spending LOTS of attorney dollars, to defend themselves.

I see this is one of your English speaking posts.

 

[lilranch2001]

No I believe that is french!

 

[PILOON]

Here in GA they have to have a minimum barrel length of 18 inches..sawed off a pump one myself that had the old worthless twist type choke..the barrel length is 18.5 inches...asked my law enforcement friend about it. Just to make sure, yep nothing wrong with that.

I picked up a cheap shotgun at a yard sale but it had been sawed off at 17 inches.
Simply to make it legal I press fitted a sleeve to take it past the 18".*
Previous owner had sawed it to fit under his cash register back when he had a dollar store.

Suited my purposes at the time as I wanted for personal protection and not hunting.

* never checked with LEO's but assumed being swaged on it should have passed.

 

[PILOON]

Quote "Good point. In other places they shoot first, and see the gun later."

SEE?
Often 'planted later' is a term sometimes used.

OR
"I thought it might be a gun"---BANG

But those excuses work if U are a LEO , but do they apply to a private citizen?

 

[two_bit_score]

Just seeing this thread now. Probably mentioned already, but it sounds like a camera system would be useful to determine if anything really happened that night.

After thought are the best thoughts. :laughing:

Seriously, of course, you are right about that. How often I have wished I had a camera in a strategic place after everything was over with.

 

[two_bit_score]

"In Missouri, the castle doctrine extends to the outside of your home"
Oh really ??

Apparently, Mark and Patricia McCloskey (St. Louis) also thought that to be true!
They are now spending LOTS of attorney dollars, to defend themselves.

That in itself is the crime. They did no wrong in my mind.

Pure political prosecution.

 

[3gunr]

Where i live and also at my farm you can hear poeple talking from a long ways away. My buddies cabin is a half mile away and i hear them on the porch talking all the time. maybe the intruders were further away than they thought.

 

[Dftodd]

Where i live and also at my farm you can hear poeple talking from a long ways away. My buddies cabin is a half mile away and i hear them on the porch talking all the time. maybe the intruders were further away than they thought.

My grandfather was semi famous with the family for how loudly his nose honked when he blew it. This was every morning when he got up, there would be rafter shaking honks when he blew it.

Out sitting in my deer stand about 1/4 mile from his house when I heard gramps blowing his nose I thought yup, must be around 6:30 Looked at my watch, and sure enough it was 6:30 on the dot