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| Wednesday, January 2, 2008
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|
| WEAPONS OF CHOICE
| Shopper pulls gun, stops robbery cold
| Held suspect at grocery store until police officers arrived
|
| A grocery store customer in Indianapolis is being credited with
| halting
| an armed robbery by pulling his own weapon and pointing it at the
| assailant until police arrived.
|
| According to a report in the Indianapolis Star, Charlie Merrell, 51,
| was
| in a checkout line at a grocery store called Bucks IGA on the city's
| south side when a "masked man jumped a nearby counter and held a gun
| on
| a store employee."
|
| The police report cited by the newspaper said the incident happened
| at
| 5:17 in the afternoon Monday as Merrell was doing some year-end
| shopping.
|
| "While the suspect was demanding cash from the workers," according to
| the police report, "Merrell pulled his own handgun, pointed it at the
| robber and ordered him to put down his weapon."
|
| The newspaper noted that Officer Jason Bockting, in his documentation
| of
| the incident, said when the suspect seemed to hesitate, "Merrell
| racked
| the slide on his gun to load a round in the chamber."
|
| YIKES!
|
|
| At that point, the report said, "the suspect placed his gun and a bag
| of
| cash on the counter, dropping some of the money . the suspect removed
| his mask and lay on the floor."
|
|
| Merrill, meanwhile, held the suspect at gunpoint until officers
| arrived
| and took him away in handcuffs.
|
| Police reported Merrell had a valid permit to carry the handgun, and
| they recovered an unloaded .380-caliber handgun and $779 cash from
| the
| suspect.
|
| Police records show Dwain Smith, 19, was being held in the Marion
| County
| Jail on a bond of $30,000 on initial charges of robbery, criminal
| confinement, pointing a firearm, battery and carrying a handgun
| without
| a license.
|
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| Outstanding that the robbery was stopped by a CCW person.
|
| That person needs a bit of instructions on using a weapon for such
| things.
|
| What was he doing pointing an unloaded weapon at the robber?
|
| Insanity.He probably realized it after he drew....
|
| Lesson#1 - never point a gun at someone unless you plan to use it.
|
| My first thought when reading this was that everyone there was lucky.
| Had the robber's gun been loaded I can see an entirely different
| ending.
|
| Harry K
|
| Harry K
|
|
| I recall reading about a customer in a similar situation who drew his
| concealed handgun and yelled "halt" to stop a robber,and the robber spun
| and shot him dead.
|
|
| Darwin Award.
|
| A gun alone doesn't guarantee tactical superiority of a situation.
|
| To quote Kenny Rogers
|
| "You gotta know when to hold em,
| know when to fold em,
| Know when to walk away,
| and know when to run
|
| Now evry gambler knows that the secret to survivin
| Is knowin what to throw away and knowin what to keep.
| cause evry hands a winner and evry hands a loser,
| And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep"
|
| a civilian CCW holder pulling a gun on a robbery,
| that doesn't involve them directly - is rolling the
| dice - (tactically speaking).
|
| may turn out fine, may not.
|
| and what the hell does all this have to do with
| home repair ???????
It just more ideas for when you get a bad repairman.