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I decided to die like a man says tycoon who took on an armed gang
Daily Mail ^ | 24th January 2008 | JULIE MOULT

Posted on 01/23/2008 7:19:19 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick

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To: PotatoHeadMick

So what did they sentence him to for defending his daughter?


41 posted on 01/23/2008 8:42:14 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

42 posted on 01/23/2008 8:47:50 PM PST by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

bump


43 posted on 01/23/2008 8:54:04 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: Colosis; Black Line; Cucullain; SomeguyfromIreland; Youngblood; Fergal; Cian; col kurz; ...

Ireland ping! Thanks, dighton, for the notice :-).


44 posted on 01/24/2008 4:42:09 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Gently alluding to the indisputably obvious is not gloating." ~Richard John Neuhaus)
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To: PotatoHeadMick
The man with the knuckleduster screamed 'He's fighting back the b******, kill the b******, he's fighting back.'"

Wow. Real tough guys.

When those guys get out of prison, he should arrange for them each to win a free, all-expenses-paid vacation to a Third World country.

And then have all loose ends tied up.

45 posted on 01/24/2008 5:32:11 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: PotatoHeadMick
Wow. What a mensch!
46 posted on 01/24/2008 5:34:23 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Wow. Great story.


47 posted on 01/24/2008 5:37:21 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
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To: Bob
In the UK the terms "open/closed" are roughly analogous to our "minimum/maximum" in prison terminology.
48 posted on 01/24/2008 5:41:42 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: PotatoHeadMick
He managed to wrestle a gun from one of the masked raiders and chased them from his luxury home in Uxbridge, West London, in November 2006,

This can't be true. We all know that guns are ILLEGAL in England. Criminals certainly wouldn't be breaking the law now would they.

49 posted on 01/24/2008 5:42:10 AM PST by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: PotatoHeadMick
British people having replica guns shouldn't rob people who haven't.

(Warning: Some questionable language and behavior)

50 posted on 01/24/2008 5:54:28 AM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: The KG9 Kid
"British people having replica guns shouldn't rob people who haven't."

One of my Favorite Movies.

Brad Pitt was HIlarious in that one!

51 posted on 01/24/2008 5:59:22 AM PST by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: chaos_5

In the UK, that is probably a bad idea, especially if they don’t have guns. (Even if you took their gun away?)

What a man! While there are men like this, there will always be an England...


52 posted on 01/24/2008 6:03:43 AM PST by Little Ray (Rudy Guiliani: If his wives can't trust him, why should we?)
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To: chaos_5
He should have just shot them.

Sounds like it was a fake gun. Even so, it's surprising he wasn't jailed for brandishing it.

53 posted on 01/24/2008 6:07:39 AM PST by Sloth (I feel real bad for deaf people, cause they have no way of knowing when microwave popcorn is done.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

could this be why he didnt shoot?

“possession of an imitation firearm with intent.”

fake gun?


54 posted on 01/24/2008 6:12:58 AM PST by beebuster2000 (choice is not not peace or war, but small war now, or big war later masquerading as peace now.)
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To: chaos_5
He should have just shot them.

... and possession of an imitation firearm with intent.

55 posted on 01/24/2008 6:16:32 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: PotatoHeadMick
Sounds like a Kaiser Soze line out of The Usual Suspects.
56 posted on 01/24/2008 6:26:13 AM PST by Teacher317 (Eta kuram na smekh)
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To: dighton; PotatoHeadMick; Tax-chick; MozarkDawg

BTTT!


57 posted on 01/24/2008 6:56:16 AM PST by aculeus
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Obviously, he was mistaken. There aren’t any violent crimes in the UK, and especially no guns. They’ve outlawed both, you see.


58 posted on 01/24/2008 6:59:12 AM PST by TChris ("if somebody agrees with me 70% of the time, rather than 100%, that doesn’t make him my enemy." -RR)
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To: BibChr

bookmark


59 posted on 01/24/2008 7:00:28 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: PotatoHeadMick
"A millionaire..."

"...would rather die like a man than a dog".

Me thinks the two have a relation.

Bully for him.

jw

60 posted on 01/24/2008 7:16:11 AM PST by JWinNC (www.anailinhisplace.net)
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