Bystander shoots suspect during robbery at ATM

[The-Distinctive-Edge]

I like the part, "I asked to stop and he wouldn't, so I shot him in the leg".

 

[45King]

Tom Lock, the Johnston County district attorney, said a person has a right to use deadly force to resist deadly force.

"If the suspect in this case was attempting to run over a person, then that person could use deadly force to resist the assault," Lock said.

He added that intervening in a robbery involves some risk. "No one wants to encourage vigilante justice, but I certainly can understand that a person might feel compelled to intervene when he saw a crime being committed. I might do the same thing under similar circumstances."

Hooray for Tom Lock for recognizing that vehicular assault is indeed assault with a deadly weapon.

Boo for Tom Lock for not knowing that "vigilantism" is the act of pursuing, subduing, and meteing out extralegal punishment* to a suspected wrongdoer.

*SCOTUS definition

 

[Browns Fan]

Ya gotta love a story with a happy ending... for the good guys that is!

 

[Matt G]

Her fiance, David Little, 40, said he, too, was grateful.
"I'm going to call him over the weekend and ask him what kind of steak he likes," said Little, who moved to Clayton with his fiance e this summer from Atlanta. "I'm going to have him and his wife and kids over for dinner."

Heck, you can't go wrong with a porterhouse, cut to 1.25", over wood fire.


With trimmin's, of course.

 

[Chipperman]

They don't say if he was actually successful in deflating the tire.
Somehow I doubt it.

 

[Preacherman]

Managed to deflate the perp, though...

 

[Matt G]

They don't say if he was actually successful in deflating the tire.
Somehow I doubt it.

With a .22 WMRF, I'd be surprised if it didn't penetrate the tire, eventually causing it to deflate. But trust me, even with multiple shots of HP .45 through it, it takes a slow-moving tire a long time to deflate. At high speed, they come apart pretty quickly, but at low speed or stopped, they just... slowly. . . go. . . d o w n.

...And you can drive pretty good on even a flat tire for a long while.