Posted on 04/21/2013 11:17:19 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
This provides quite an ironic capper to That Was The Rotten Week That Was. The police had just given a press conference essentially saying that they couldn’t find 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and that people could once again leave their homes in Boston when David Henneberry noticed something odd in his backyard — an untied tarp flapping in the wind:
After authorities relaxed the lockdown with Tsarnaev still at large late Friday afternoon, David Henneberry headed outside and noticed that the tarp had become unsecured — something it had not done during the blizzards that hit Boston this winter. That, as boat owners know, simply will not do, so he went to fix it.
“He got closer and realized that one of the retention straps had literally been cut — not chafed, not broken or unhooked,” his stepson, Robert Duffy, told CNN’s Piers Morgan.
Henneberry noticed what appeared to be blood on the tarp and thought that perhaps an animal had gotten into the boat, so he climbed a stepladder and took a look. That’s when he saw something chilling.
“He definitely noticed that there was something crumpled up in a ball in the forward portion, and at that point, he became an absolute hero,” Duffy said. “He did the right thing, As law enforcement had urged, he jumped off the ladder and called 911. They were within foot traffic distance. Immediately my mother and David were evacuated from the home.”
The rest was history, and Henneberry theoretically saved a lot of lives with his alert thinking. He may have explicitly saved one life in particular — Tsarnaev’s. CBS reports this morning that the suspect would probably have died in the boat from wounds to his neck and leg had Henneberry not noticed the flapping tarp:
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I can only speak for myself and what I would have wanted hubby to do. Hubby would not have killed him unless the man raised a gun to shoot him. Modern forensics and all dictate actions. And I don’t think there was a Purina plant in the neighborhood. Heh. There was also the possibility of letting the terrorist bleed to death instead of alerting the police to his presence. But I don’t think most people think that way in such a situation. I read too many spy thrillers. Lol
Thanks. Yes I was aware of that bit of news surfacing in a few news reports.
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