New definition of 'stuck on stupid'.
Posted on 10/02/2005 2:01:58 AM PDT by bad company
LOS ANGELES (AP) One man was shot to death and another wounded after they allegedly attempted a carjacking against two FBI agents who were conducting surveillance, officials said.
The FBI agents apparently were targeted randomly and the incident remains under investigation.
FBI officials Friday declined to identify the slain suspect pending the notification of his relatives. The identity of the wounded suspect also was being withheld, along with the names of two others who were arrested because they are minors.
Both agents were assigned to the FBI's Los Angeles field office. The agency did not disclose their names.
The bureau said in a statement that the two agents were in a parked vehicle in Reseda during an investigation of a violation of the Hobbs Act, which concerns extortion and robbery.
The agents were ``accosted by four young male subjects, at least one of whom was armed'' about midnight and an altercation ensued when the four suspects allegedly tried to take the agents' vehicle, FBI officials said.
Authorities did not say how many shots were fired or how many individuals had guns.
The wounded suspect was hospitalized in stable condition. The other two suspects were in the custody of the Los Angeles Police Department.
FBI officials said a special team will investigate the shooting while local officials will consider criminal charges against the suspects.
New definition of 'stuck on stupid'.
More on the travails of stupid people
They were new to the area,,,from N.O.???
The dear departed gangbanger will unquestionably be in the running for the top Darwin Award for 2005. But there will be people who (incredibly) did even stupider things in their efforts to leave the gene pool, so this guy will probably only get an honorable mention. But you have to give him an A+ for originality as I have not seen a previous Darwin competitor who tried to carjack FBI agents.
Your quip reminds me that even if only a small percentage of the populace is armed, it discourages crime against the rest of the population too as long as the criminals can't reliably guess who is armed.
The armed society...is made up of FBI agents?
Ok, that's weird. Apparently, I only thought I had copied the text I wanted to quote into the copy buffer.
What I intended to quote was ""That's funny, everyone else we robbed didn't have guns."
Avoid the Crown Vics with fat tires and dark windows.
The homeboys probably had the tires off before the shooting started.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Can you all believe the word above passes the spell check provided by FreeRepublic? Blind luck, I assure you.
I don't remember that being one of the twenty words assigned weekly in high school to learn to spell and be able to use in a sentence.
Reminder to self: Spell-check is your friend.
Yo! Give up the keys ! Pop ! Pop !
When criminals “have one of those days”.
I'm a little ashamed to admit it, but even before I read the above article I said to myself, "I bet they were male!"
I hate being so judgmental., but it looks like in this case I was right. At any rate, I hope no gender profiling occurs in the attempt to apprehend these chaps.
That's almost as good as trying to rob a bar full of cops.
"Noisy Quarrel".
I bet it didn't look too much like a noisy quarrel at all, and the the guy with gun probably didn't live long enough to blink twice, and the two unarmed carjackers probably hugged pavement and squealed a little.
Too bad there isn't any video for other potential carjacking idiots to watch.
Attention thugs, crooks, and criminals!! Florida citizens are armed! Don't mess with us!!
Don't get me wrong I am glad they got their shots in the thieves. Just kinda funny about practicing what they preach.
Is Raseda a bad neighborhood, I wonder? Were the carjackers white dudes, hispanic or Afro-Americana? Boy did they pick the wrong car to hijack. DOH! Federal charges since they were FBI, or maybe they will catch a break because they didn't know they were G Men?
My son who is a cop was attending a seminar at a local hotel when an idiot robbed the hotel clerk. The lobby was full of civies clad and armed cops from all over the area. They couldn't do anything while the robbery was happening because the idiot criminal had a gun pointed at the clerk at point blank range but they took him down before he made it to the door, without firing a shot.
hehehehehehe
What kind of a charge is that???
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We have a winner!
No, the FBI agents were obviously racist. If these had been rich, white carjackers........they clearly wouldn't have shot 'em.
I would love to know if these FBI guys over reacted. How far did the car jackers go before they got a hail of lead. Would Joe average citizen be prosecuted for doing what the FBI men did? I'd love to see more details
Good justification to bring back the Thompson machinegun to FBI surveillance vehicles.
Tubbs lifts the sawed off double barreled shotgun he's holding in his lap and points it at the guy's belly button (the gun's cut off right in front of the forestock - you can damn near see the ends of the shells at the bottom of the barrels) and says "Can it wait? I'm a little busy right now".
I still laugh when I think of that scene.
why is it, when reading this story I have the Vonage music going through my mind? (wo hoo, who hoo hoo)
The "victims" will be portrayed in the media as honor students and/or aspiring rappers and the neighborhood will march in protest.
I wonder what theese FBI agents did to offend these poor gangbangers? Was it something that they said?
If there are two guys sitting together in a car at 12:00 a.m. in a rough neighborhood, any reasonably smart person, criminal or cop, has to suspect strongly that they're either thugs or cops; hence, armed. It's a bad idea to try to car jack either type.
You're right. That's why it's a great idea for everybody who can legally qualify, and doesn't have a compelling contrary family reason, to get a CCW permit and carry. As far as I'm concerned, I'm using my carry weapon every minute simply because it's there in my car's glove compartment.
Reminiscent of the genius who held up the bank near FBI headquarters at 5pm on a Friday--20 agents waiting in line to deposit their paychecks drew down on him.
Nobody else needs guns ... at least in LA.
"The FBI hates black people"
Kanye West
When and how did it get to the point where jury duty had to be based on matching or contrasting selected demographics. How about a genuinely random sampling of unassociated adults or is that too logical?
Couldn't resist - and I'm not sorry!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that LEO types generally are against citizens being armed, it is just amazing that they would value some replaceable property over someones life.<<
VPI and the Chief's orgs portray that as a case. Law abiding citizens with guns, not a problem. You NEVER hear about them. Drunks with guns, Adam Henrys with guns...
Many rank and file cops are NRA members. It's not an accident.
MSM is not interested in a real image of cops, just the ones that make a good (sale) story.
DK
As of yesterday...not in FLORIDA! Got us a new law, I'm sure you've heard the liberals whining about it...if the shoot is justified, family can't sue and an antigun prosecutor can't indict.
These FBI guys need to log in more time at the shooting range, if they only killed 1 out of four. Winging two at point blank range is unforgivable.
Bet the undertaker had to work a while to get the surprised look off the dead perp's face.
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