Posted on 12/29/2009 5:21:24 PM PST by TEXOKIE
Michael Beasley hobbled up the stairs leading to his second-floor apartment near the southern tip of Miami Beach. On the way home from Haulover Park, the 60-year-old Jacksonville native had purchased a couple of burgers for himself and his beloved green Amazon parrot, Seaweed. Then something startled Beasley. His front door had been pried open.
Normally, Seaweed would squawk the greeting, "Hey, how ya doing?" But this time there was silence.
Beasley, who walks with a cane because of a back injury, limped into his living room. The bird and his six-foot domed cage were gone. So were the 32-inch plasma TV set and the DVD player. He continued into the bedroom and found the closet door open.
After peering inside, he turned pale. Burglars had stolen his and his wife's prized gun collection. Among the missing firearms: seven handguns (including a .357-caliber Ruger), a pistol-grip 12-gauge shotgun, two SKS 72 assault rifles, and three Heckler & Koch machine guns that can fire 1,200 to 1,300 rounds per minute. "These guns use bullets that chew through stucco and that can take people out in a drive-by," Beasley explains. "Whoever stole my guns has a tremendous amount of firepower. They hit the jackpot."
The bold daytime heist provides a glimpse into the alarming number of high-powered rifles and machine guns that are stolen every year. Many end up in the hands of criminals...
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It is alarming that so many home burglaries occur. But there aren't many crimes committed with high-powered rifles and hardly any with machine guns.
Nice try at the liberal anti-gun hysteria angle. Better than the average hack jourbalist.
Arrrrr, parrots, matey! Can't leave 'em in the galley, can't leave 'em in the armory. Thars a reason pirates always have 'em on their shoulders.
The l'il monkeys are no better neither.
If you have a Parrot, make sure he doesn’t overhear the Combination for your Gun Safe.
“the parrot was involved”
Sounds like an inside job...imagining a parrot in a police line up, witnesses carefully comparing pictures of parrot mugshots, a police sketch artist drawing the beak a little longer per request, the neighbors arguing over whether he really was all that ‘quiet’ but agreeing that he ‘always kept to himself’
when asked a suitable name for a marxist-muslim baby...he said 'Barak' !!!
You’re mistaken.
There are no rules about storage, except that they have to be at the licensed premises or in posession of the owner.
None of this sounds right.
I think Capt. Rex Galindo is a liar. Handguns can't pierce armor. Only the ammo can be armor-piercing and armor-piercing ammo is illegal.
"Criminals can get an AK-47 on the street for $200," says Miami Gardens Police Capt. Rafael Suarez, "or just steal one."
I think Miami Gardens Police Capt., Rafael Suarez, is also a liar. It would be difficult to get an AK-47 for $200 in the ME and they are cheaper there than almost anyplace in the world.
Since June 2007, 70 AK-47s and other similar assault rifles have been recovered through the county's gun bounty program, which pays $1,000 to those who turn in people with illegal weapons.
Gee, I certainly hope your informants signed an affidavit and you obtained a legal warrant for those arrests. Look for this tactic to spread.
LOL!
LOL! Good point!
One would think so!
LOL!! Outstanding observation, imho!
Me too. I really do like birds.
*Giggle!*
It doesnt seem like good judgment, does it?
*Grin*
ROFL!
You made me think of my favorite parrot joke of all time:
The cartoon of an elderly lady with a box of crackers and her parrot on the perch stand is glaring at her saying, “POLLY HAS A CRACKER - POLLY WANTS DIP!!!!”
*Chuckle*
LOL!
Well said.
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