Why wouldn’t the neighbor identify the firefighter through the peephole instead of shooting first and asking questions later? Now she’s going to be the neighborhood leper.
“They say he took a taxi home and they believe he was intoxicated when he approached his neighbor’s home.”
For whatever reason, perhaps by mistake or negligence, the taxi driver dropped the firefighter off at the wrong house. Did the firefighter direct the driver to the wrong house or did the taxi driver not stop and drop off his passenger and the correct address?
Can someone please explain why the headline has to identify him as a “firefighter”? He wasn’t acting in any capacity of a firefighter nor representing the fire dept at the time. His occupation should have nothing to do with it.
He was a drunk intruder who was shot while trying to break into someone else’s house.
The “firefighter” part should be a minor description, if even that, at the bottom of the story. NOT the headline. “He was employed by the XYZ Fire Dept.”
If he was a “massage therapist” or a “grocery clerk” or a myriad other non-descript professions, would the headline of the story be written the same way?
Sheesh! Today’s urinalism.
Instead it was drunken lout trying to break in and elderly lady protecting herself.
A genuine tragedy.
I live in a condo complex, five floors, unit 205. Twice, I’ve gone to 305 and worked the key in frustration, then my other key, then my wife’s key. Finally, to our amazement my upstairs neighbor opens the door and we have a good laugh. A month later he does the same thing to me. Another laugh.
I don’t own a firearm but support those who do, as they ultimately protect me and my family; but this is a danger that can’t be taken lightly.
The woman told authorities she was alone in her brick home in the 20600 block of
Youpon Lane when she heard a noise about 9:30 p.m. and saw the figure of a man
through her opaque glass door.
She said she ordered the man to leave, telling him she was armed and would shoot if
he kept trying to come in.
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No charges have been filed at this time but the case will be presented to the
Montgomery County Grand Jury, Fitzgerald said.
BUT — If you are drunk enough to kick the door down, you are too drunk to know it’s the wrong house.
If her house is in the county, and she shot him outside the county, then her house must be close to the county line. Wonder what county he was in when he was shot.