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Man holds accused burglar at knife point in his underwear(FL)
winknews.com ^ | 6 January, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 01/07/2011 5:41:04 AM PST by marktwain

FORT MYERS, FL- A Fort Myers man wakes up early in the morning and remembers he left expensive tools in his SUV. He goes out to lock it and finds a man sitting in it.

Fort Myers resident Hank Free says,"The door was open like this, and he was in there, and I came around here and I really surprised him."

Free says he was surprised too. It was 2:30 in the morning and a stranger was sitting in his SUV.

"I said what are you doing in my truck."

Deputies say 19 year old Austin Yeomans, clutching a bag of burglary tools, begged Free to let him free saying that he lives just down the street.

Free says, "He tried to jump out and I shoved him back into the car."

He grabbed his appropriately labeled NRA knife sitting on the dashboard.

"It's got the second amendment on it where we have the right to bear arms. I said if you try to get out, I'm going to stick you, so he stayed there. The funny part is that all I had on was my underwear so I was holding him at bay with this little tiny knife, and I said, now what am I going to do."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; defense; fl; knife
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I hope the young burglar turns around his life.
1 posted on 01/07/2011 5:41:09 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

What was the burglar doing in the man’s underwear?


2 posted on 01/07/2011 5:42:00 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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LOL. You beat me to it.


3 posted on 01/07/2011 5:43:39 AM PST by newheart (Please don't shoot at the thermonuclear weapons. --Vic Deakins)
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To: marktwain

“Is that a knife pointing in your underwear, or are you happy to see me?”


4 posted on 01/07/2011 5:44:28 AM PST by mikrofon (Reverse stick-up)
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To: marktwain

In the event of a home break-in, or in this case an auto break-in, the last thing on my mind would be to put on a pair of pants.


5 posted on 01/07/2011 5:45:34 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: marktwain

“I was holding him at bay with this little, tiny knife...”

Freudian slip?


6 posted on 01/07/2011 5:48:23 AM PST by momtothree
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To: marktwain
is that a knife point in your underwear???

or are you glad to see me.


7 posted on 01/07/2011 5:52:46 AM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: marktwain

Being in his skivvies probably enhanced his scariness for the would be SUV thief. I had a personal experience with that sort of situation long ago and I had a lo-o-o-ng Damascus curved sword(an original) when the fellow at my window looked up. I was also in a hanging-open army field jacket, boxers and unlaced jungle boots. I didn’t get close enough to him to actually do any damage. He just sort of disappeared.


8 posted on 01/07/2011 5:55:35 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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What was the burglar doing in the man’s underwear?
I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he got there I'll never know.

9 posted on 01/07/2011 5:56:25 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: marktwain

Who’s in the underwear? Perp or victim. Antecedent please!

I chased a raccoon in my pajamas last night . . . how it got in my pajamas is beyond me.


10 posted on 01/07/2011 5:57:33 AM PST by laweeks
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Who’s in the underwear? Perp or victim. Antecedent please!

I thought the knife point was in his underwear.

11 posted on 01/07/2011 6:00:01 AM PST by paulycy (The Constitution is a Formal Contract. Live up to it or lose your job, Congress.)
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“Who’s in the underwear? Perp or victim. Antecedent please!
I thought the knife point was in his underwear.”

In whose underwear, the perp or the raccoon’s?


12 posted on 01/07/2011 6:01:22 AM PST by laweeks
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In whose underwear, the perp or the raccoon’s?

Wait! Wasn't it an elephant in Groucho Marx' underwear?

13 posted on 01/07/2011 6:04:35 AM PST by paulycy (The Constitution is a Formal Contract. Live up to it or lose your job, Congress.)
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To: MrB
What was the burglar doing in the man’s underwear?

Thank goodness you posted that! (Keeps me from being more hated!)

14 posted on 01/07/2011 6:05:03 AM PST by LRS ("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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“In whose underwear, the perp or the raccoon’s?
Wait! Wasn’t it an elephant in Groucho Marx’ underwear?”

Now I forgot the theme of this posting!


15 posted on 01/07/2011 6:09:58 AM PST by laweeks
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To: MrB
What was the burglar doing in the man’s underwear?

Sounds like a future TSA agent to me...

16 posted on 01/07/2011 6:10:26 AM PST by Onelifetogive (I tweet, too...)
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Man holds accused burglar at knife point in his underwear

There was a knife point in his underwear?

That's not a knife.

THIS is a knife.

17 posted on 01/07/2011 6:31:35 AM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, than Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: marktwain

Was the victim or the perp in his underwear? Don’t they teach English Composition 101 in Journalism schools anymore?


18 posted on 01/07/2011 6:56:42 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: IAmNotAnAnimal

Were you in your underwear last week when the backyard prowler came around?


19 posted on 01/07/2011 7:02:18 AM PST by Rebelbase
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“Is that a knife pointing in your underwear, or are you happy to see me?”

I don't know about you, but the knife pointing in my underwear is HUGE!

20 posted on 01/07/2011 7:07:07 AM PST by OldCorps
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