Posted on 08/15/2007 7:15:35 AM PDT by Dr.Syn
Is this Darwin List material?
Don't worry, Mr. Oulette. The Massachusetts Judicial has him.. He'll be given a prompt slap on release, stern talking to, and released before you can say "Do I need a gun to defend my home?"
No, not Darwin material yet. The perp is alive. To be Darwin material the fool must be dead and not have contributed to the gene pool.
The Massachusetts Judicial has him.. He’ll be given a prompt slap on the wrist, astern talking to, and released before you can say “Do I need a gun to defend my home?”
Bad timing for him in the wake of the Petit home invasion murders in Cheshire. There is a new "get tough" attitude on home invasions that should last long enough to get this guy in real trouble...until he gets "early parole".
Just another example of why a dog is the best alarm system known to mankind, and is also the single best deterent to burglars on the planet.
The bottom line is somebody that thinks breaking into a home is a good idea will always take the ‘least path of resistence’ and hit the home without an alarm system, canine or Alarm Force, it doesn’t matter.
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Wow. What a mensch.
To get a Darwin you have to remove yourself from the gene pool. If you accidently castrate yourself in a tragic hedgeclipper incident or get yourself incarcerated during your prime breeding years then that should count : ).
Question for you Mass. Freepers: I thought the town of Enfield is about 100 feet under the Quabbin reservior. Wasn’t it one of the towns flooded in the 1930’s (?) to create Quabbin?
Oh if only the homeowner had complied with the intruder’s demands this arrest could have been avoided.
Enfield was a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, location 42°19′N, 072°22′W. The town was incorporated in 1816 from portions of Greenwich and Belchertown. It was named in honor of one of its early settlers, Robert Field. General Joseph Hooker, Union general during the American Civil War, was once a resident, and his grandfather was once a town leader.
It was centered at the junction of the east and west branches of the Swift River, and the Athol Branch of the Boston and Albany Railroad ran through the town. The town was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 and portions of the town were annexed to the adjacent towns of Belchertown, New Salem, Pelham, and Ware. (Not all of the former town is presently in Hampshire County; the portion ceded to New Salem is now in Franklin County.) The headquarters of the Metropolitan District Commission during the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir was located in the former town, and was the last building razed in the Swift River Valley, in 1940. The majority of the town center now lies submerged beneath the reservoir, although the Quabbin Observatory and Enfield Lookout, located on scenic Quabbin Hill, as well as the main entrance and headquarters of Quabbin State Park, a popular tourist destination with an emphasis on state history and nature, are all within the former town's limits.
Looks like the attacker was black. So if the gun had fired and the home owner had been killed, I guess this would have been a big story for a few hours then they would quietly drop it.
Criminals are generally not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
The headline would have been “Racist Homeowner Causes Arrest of Innocent Black Man.”
I don’t have a barking dog, but I have a Tomcat, loaded with hollow points.
CASTLE DOCTRINE AND SELF-DEFENSE
Last I knew NYS still had its duty-to-retreat law on the books.
A far more satisfying head line would have read....
HOMEOWNER SHOOTS CALIBER IMPARED HOME INVADER TO DEATH WITH HIS OWN CORRECTLY LOADED WEAPON.
I don’t have a barking dog, but I have a Tomcat, loaded with hollow points.
That works great....if you are home. When you aren’t however, the dog trumps the inanimate object every time.
How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?
Almost all crime depends on the cooperation of the victim.
If the victim refuses his assigned role, the criminal is placed at a disadvantage, one so severe that it usually takes an understanding and compassionate judge to set right.
LAZARUS LONG
Oh man, this made my morning.
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