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Frank wrote:

If Harry shows up at your doorstep, take him shooting'


Just don't show up at this guy's doorstep...

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57...use-shot-dead/

Friends say a man in his early 20s was picking up one more of their
group to go skating, when his GPS took him to the wrong house and the
home-owner allegedly shot him dead, later saying he feared a home
invasion.

According to friends of Rodrigo Diaz, they were all going ice skating.
Diaz was driving the car, and they were going to pick up one more
skater.

They pulled into a driveway, which their GPS -- at least, according to
one of the friends -- told them was their destination.

Then, as WSB-TV Atlanta explains, this tale took a troubling turn.

According to Yeson Jimenez, 15, one of the passengers, Diaz pulled into
a driveway; then 69-year-old Phillip Sailors peered out of a window of
the house.

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Mug shot of Phillip Sailors, the trigger-happy, itch'en-for-a-kill'en
law-abiding gun owner.
(or former law-abiding gun-owner).
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He allegedly came out, went back inside, then emerged again, firing a
gun into the air.

Jimenez says Sailors said nothing to them but "Shut up!"

Jimenez insists they tried to drive away and that as they did, Sailors
fired his .22 gun and shot Diaz fatally in the head.

Sailors has been charged with murder with malice.

Lilburn, Ga., Police Chief Bruce Hedley told The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution: "At this point we have established probable cause
to charge Mr. Sailors."

Sailors' lawyer, Michael Puglise, told the Journal-Constitution: "He is
very distraught over the loss of life from the defense of his home. This
incident happened late in the evening hours when he was home with his
wife and he assumed it was a home invasion and he maintains his
innocence."

Among the unknowns is whether the GPS was simply programmed to the wrong
address or whether it might have been in some way faulty.

Another question that might arise in some minds is that if Sailors was,
indeed, defending himself, how is it that he allegedly shot a man who
was reportedly driving away from his house?

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Now, which company is going to get their ass sued off in civial court
for "wrongful death" ?

Garmin, or TomTom?