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Parents Attack Carjacker to Save Their Baby [VIDEO]
AolNews ^ | Nov, 26 2010 | Deborah Hastings

Posted on 11/27/2010 3:46:34 AM PST by Mayr Fortuna

Parents Attack Carjacker to Save Their Baby

They were standing just a few yards away, talking to family in the final hours of a long road trip, when a man jumped into their idling car at a Kansas City, Mo., gas station and sped off with their 6-month-old daughter strapped in the back seat.

Their hearts pounding, Melanie and Aaron Richman ran. She was able to grab onto the passenger side and smash the window with her elbow. He somehow pulled himself inside the car and started punching and kicking the carjacker.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Humor; Local News
KEYWORDS: heroism; stupidity
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Weeelll Americans...

What ist it?

All of you know qwite well that car jackers are over there, hijackers are over there, burglers are over there...

Why this two stupids let their´s baby in the car, engine on and turn their back on it?

Chear stupidity in my opinion...

1 posted on 11/27/2010 3:46:39 AM PST by Mayr Fortuna
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To: Mayr Fortuna

No description of the perp.
We know he was wearing a hoodie...


2 posted on 11/27/2010 3:49:24 AM PST by Bon mots ("Anything you say, can and will be construed as racist...")
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To: Mayr Fortuna

You really shuldn’t change headlines. As for the question of stupidity, “why this two stupids” not allowed to turn their backs for a momont?


3 posted on 11/27/2010 3:54:43 AM PST by cake_crumb (Why do we call them "pat downs" when they're obviously "feel ups"?)
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To: Bon mots
No description of the perp. We know he was wearing a hoodie...


4 posted on 11/27/2010 3:55:53 AM PST by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: Mayr Fortuna

I just watched it a second time, and STILL don’t see what makes the parents into the bad guys here.


5 posted on 11/27/2010 3:58:07 AM PST by cake_crumb (Why do we call them "pat downs" when they're obviously "feel ups"?)
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To: cake_crumb

I’m with you. Obviously they weren’t five yards away given the speed with which that Mama Grizzly was Spiderman on that window.


6 posted on 11/27/2010 4:14:12 AM PST by major-pelham
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To: major-pelham

Certainlythey are heroes, the only one stupid was Tyrone the would be car thief.

Too bad he got away.


7 posted on 11/27/2010 4:20:17 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Venturer

Tyrone is to...as identifiable these days as say...mohammed is to...
But gee, that’s racist, ain’t it?


8 posted on 11/27/2010 4:33:34 AM PST by MestaMachine (Aut viam inveniam aut faciam - I will either find a way or make one)
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To: Mayr Fortuna
After we had my first son I NEVER, NEVER leave the keys in the car if one of them is in there. Even while pumping gas.

I just figured everyone figured this out.

9 posted on 11/27/2010 4:39:24 AM PST by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: Mayr Fortuna

I’d say they learned a lesson.
It wasn’t stupidity but ignorance that caused them to drop their guard. When it comes to the police line of never chasing a bad guy what would have been their chances of getting their baby back in good condition if they had not given chase and just called 911?


10 posted on 11/27/2010 4:43:38 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Mayr Fortuna

I’m voting hero, too. Of course, I was dumb enough to go out this A.M. without body armor, though I’ve heard of drive-by shootings and even freeway snipers.


11 posted on 11/27/2010 4:45:26 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: Mayr Fortuna
Why this two stupids let their´s baby in the car

Standard English is a wonderful thing. Try it.

12 posted on 11/27/2010 4:54:53 AM PST by don-o (Wait. What?)
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To: Mayr Fortuna
All of you know qwite well that car jackers are over there

I'd say it's far more safer to stand outside my vehicle in Kansas City then anywhere in Brazil.....Here's something else you won't see "over here"

23 Dead Since Sunday in Brazil Slum Violence

So stick that in your pipe and smoke it amigo........

13 posted on 11/27/2010 5:11:25 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (There's only one cure for Obamarrhea......)
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To: Mayr Fortuna

Ok, they foolishly let their guard down...but they most certainly showed heroic behavior in rescuing their baby.


14 posted on 11/27/2010 5:29:41 AM PST by celticfreedom (the most precious jewels you'll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.)
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To: Mayr Fortuna

Well, they were very close by, maybe they thought they could get out of the car at a gas station to talk to others traveling with them. Its not like they went into the store and left the baby in a running car. The blame belongs on the black car jacker, not the parents.


15 posted on 11/27/2010 5:30:20 AM PST by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing leftists and their fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: Mayr Fortuna

Too bad Dad was packing heat, would have been far easier than trying to fight the Amish car jacker.


16 posted on 11/27/2010 5:32:43 AM PST by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing leftists and their fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: MestaMachine

I think it is a statement of fact, but that’s just me.

I am pretty sure that wasn’t Frank or Billy Joe.


17 posted on 11/27/2010 5:36:57 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Mayr Fortuna

Anyone who wants to just stand there while someone takes off with your 6 mo old kid in the car, you just go right ahead.

Me? I go after the guy.


18 posted on 11/27/2010 5:39:43 AM PST by TalBlack
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To: cake_crumb

“I just watched it a second time, and STILL don’t see what makes the parents into the bad guys here.”

agreed...its a sorry commentary on society and its cruds and trash that such a crime would have to be anticipated. Only a few feed away...


19 posted on 11/27/2010 6:17:11 AM PST by Dudoight
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To: Mayr Fortuna

Warmth, I hear it is cold up north something to do with winter time or something along those lines....


20 posted on 11/27/2010 6:28:47 AM PST by usmcobra (.Islam: providing Live Targets for United States Marines since 1786!)
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