Woman shoots through wall and kills ‘peeping Tom’ outside her Texas home, cops say

This is a true story, and I'm not embarrassed to retell it.:

When I was 17 years old a friend and I were playing frisbee in the back yard. The frisbee went over the fence, after sunset, into the yard of a family that had moved in just a week or so before. I hopped the fence, went to get the frisbee, and happened to see through the window, the 15 year old daughter coming out of the shower in her bedroom completely naked. I spent several minutes peeping, when the dad came out the back door and caught me.

He was pretty rough on me and called the police. The police scared the bejesus out of me. They started listing all the felonies they could charge me with. Ultimately, calling my own father to come over to "deal with the situation" prevailed.

In today's world who knows what would have ended up happening to me, legally speaking, but thank god I didn't end up shot. I think everyone knew I wasn't a predator; just a young boy seeing things he'd never seen before.

Kleanbore said:

There is a wall between you, and a window. Remember?

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Yeah, I remember. The window. And he's close enough to fog it with his breath. And he's about to be shot.

Kleanbore said:

Trying to shoot him would entail some chance of getting shot; it would surely put the shooter into a process in which he or she would not want to be; and the probability that a defense of justification would fail is greater than zero.

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Personally I can shoot a lot faster than I could get on the floor.

It's a window. I can see through it. That's how I saw him pointing a gun at me. He can see me (it's a window, remember?). It's not bullet-proof glass. He's five feet or closer to me. You do what you wish and I'll do what I think in that circumstance needs to be done. The discussion, in my mind, is becoming circuitous and bearing little "fruit".

Kleanbore said:

It appears that you would expect to shoot first and to effect an instant stop. The first is questionable, and the latter is not at all realistic.

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Oh, it's true one shot might well not stop him immediately. But it might persuade him to leave.

Kleanbore said:

Where did that come from?

He was "outside the window".

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If the woman perceived him as a "peeping Tom" he was standing at the window looking in.

SwampWolf said:

Yeah, I remember. The window. And he's close enough to fog it with his breath. And he's about to be shot.

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Quit making crap up ! If you cant handle the facts move long instead of telling lies .

Kleanbore said:

"At the window"? Maybe not.

We had a young voyeur in the neighborhood who targeted young girls the street. He stayed out of the area illuminated by the window light, and behind bushes.

But they did see him.

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Ugh.

Kleanbore said:

Oh.

I thought that your hypothetical had him pointing a gun.

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In response to realizing the woman was looking at him.

Kleanbore said:

I thought that your hypothetical had him pointing a gun.

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It did-and isn't that sort of the point?