Posted on 10/19/2007 3:01:14 AM PDT by SkyPilot
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A burglar in Montgomery chose the wrong family to mess with, literally. Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon returned home on Tuesday after a week away to find that thieves had emptied almost everything the family of five owned, Tiffany McKinnon said through tears.
"Tears just rolled down my face as I walked in and saw everything gone and piles of trash all over my home," she said.
Adrian McKinnon sent his wife to see her sister while he inspected the piles left behind. As he walked back into the sunroom, a man walked through the back door straight into him, Tiffany McKinnon told the Montgomery Advertiser in a story Thursday.
"My husband Adrian caught the thief red-handed in our home," she said. "And what is even crazier, the man even had my husband's hat sitting right on his head."
Adrian McKinnon held the suspect, 33-year-old Tajuan Bullock, at gunpoint and told him to sit on the floor until he decided what to do.
"We made this man clean up all the mess he made, piles of stuff, he had thrown out of my drawers and cabinets onto the floor," Tiffany McKinnon said.
When police arrived, Bullock complained about being forced to clean the home at gunpoint.
"This man had the nerve to raise sand about us making him clean up the mess he made in my house," she said. "The police officer laughed at him when he complained and said anybody else would have shot him dead."
Capt. Huey Thornton, a police spokesman, said police arrested Bullock at 2 p.m. Tuesday on burglary and theft charges. He was being held in the Montgomery County Detention Facility on a $30,000 bond.
"The victims were lucky in this case to be able to catch the suspect in the act and hold him until police arrived," Thornton said.
Its been a while and I might have gotten his name wrong. The essay was by a blogger, a former NYC school teacher and the subject was silly names.
While doing home visits and tutoring the writer met a single mother whose kids all had normal names and were doing well in school even while living in a single parent home in a tough projects type environment.
The writer remarked on the normalcy of their names being unusual in that milieu. The lady of the house made the remark she wasn’t having any of that Sheniqua sh*t for HER kids, they were going to go to school, do well on their merits and work and not have to go through life being pre-judged based on being saddled with a foolish name.
You couldn’t reinstate the complaint, however, you could have sued the police department. They are not authorized to be providing you with wrong legal advice that ends up costing you your rights and/or money. You could probably still sue them, unless this was many years ago.
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It might appear that evil triumphs over good in the short run, but it never does.
God bless.
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