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Bystanders beat man who tried to grab Tacoma girls
The News Tribune ^ | 7/14/09 | Stacey Mulick

Posted on 07/14/2009 8:20:14 AM PDT by llevrok

A man who tried to kidnap two 5-year-old girls was beaten Saturday night by two bystanders who witnessed the abduction attempts, Tacoma police said Monday.

Officers arrested the 45-year-old man on suspicion of trying to kidnap the girls, who had been playing with some other children in the 500 block of South L Street about 7 p.m.

Police said the man, apparently intoxicated, was walking on the sidewalk on L Street when he grabbed the first girl. She kicked her way free, and the man tried to grab another 5-year-old girl, police said. She, too, got away.

As the man tried to flee, two men who had been sitting in a nearby truck got out and severely beat the man, police reported. All three then left, police said.

The two girls told their parents what happened and officers found the first man in the 200 block of South J Street. He’d suffered a head injury and was stitched up at a local hospital before being booked into the Pierce County Jail on suspicion of attempted first-degree kidnapping.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: local; tacoma
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1 posted on 07/14/2009 8:20:14 AM PDT by llevrok
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To: llevrok

*sniff*

I love a happy ending


2 posted on 07/14/2009 8:22:18 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: llevrok
As the man tried to flee, two men who had been sitting in a nearby truck got out and severely beat the man, police reported. All three then left, police said.

If the perv-perp left after the beating, he wasn't beaten nearly severely enough.

3 posted on 07/14/2009 8:22:34 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: llevrok

More of this ... good thing.


4 posted on 07/14/2009 8:22:36 AM PDT by mgc1122
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To: llevrok

Hopefully no charges or lawsuits will be filed against these two heros. Any POS lawyer who might file a lawsuit against these two needs the same “treatment”


6 posted on 07/14/2009 8:22:38 AM PDT by clamper1797 (FUBO ... the Anti-Reagan)
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To: llevrok

He’s lucky to be alive. Unfortanately, the perp will sue...


7 posted on 07/14/2009 8:22:44 AM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: Abathar

Hopefully they won’t be charged with battery on the perp.


8 posted on 07/14/2009 8:23:23 AM PDT by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama: The final turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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To: llevrok

I think the headline writer has a fundamental misunderstanding of the definition of the word “bystander.”


9 posted on 07/14/2009 8:24:48 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: llevrok

Glad it turned out positive...but, the question remains....what are two 5 year old girls doing wandering the streets??? Especially in this area of Tacoma (if I remember correctly, this isn’t the best area of town.)


10 posted on 07/14/2009 8:25:59 AM PDT by goodnesswins (For lease)
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To: llevrok

Haa haa! Yes!


11 posted on 07/14/2009 8:26:11 AM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: llevrok

(squeeky voice)"THAT'S the way to doooo it!"

12 posted on 07/14/2009 8:30:09 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: llevrok

Sad thing is in our topsy-turvy world should the abomination known as hate crimes pedophile protection bill get passed in the Senate, the perp would have walked, and the two men protecting those little girls would have committed a felony and facing a prison sentence.


13 posted on 07/14/2009 8:31:26 AM PDT by conservativegramma ((No taxation without constitutional representation!))
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To: llevrok

The way it used to be. Adults PROTECTING children.


14 posted on 07/14/2009 8:31:48 AM PDT by cubreporter
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To: JackRyanCIA
“””Too bad they didn’t kill him.””””

They should have beat him to death. Then resuscitated him so that he could sit in jail and remember it.

But alas... he will go through the revolving door and be out by morning.

15 posted on 07/14/2009 8:32:04 AM PDT by envisio (Sexual Beer & BBQ Ribs)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Yes. Now he’ll be released to make the attempts again.


16 posted on 07/14/2009 8:32:25 AM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: llevrok

I wish I could shake their hands.


17 posted on 07/14/2009 8:32:38 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (When you put Democrats in charge, stupid things happen)
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To: goodnesswins

Perhaps you could read all the way to the second sentence of the article.


18 posted on 07/14/2009 8:33:35 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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19 posted on 07/14/2009 8:42:42 AM PDT by Eaker (The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
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To: llevrok

There is justice in Tacoma. This creep should never be let out of prison.


20 posted on 07/14/2009 8:44:34 AM PDT by reader25
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