Posted on 12/23/2015 11:02:09 AM PST by dware
FULL TITLE: 'It's the only reason I'm here now': Son awakens from 'brain-dead' state after gun-toting dad engages in three-hour armed standoff with police to block doctors from pulling the plug life-support
A father took a gun into hospital to stop doctors taking his son off life support - and during the three-hour stand-off the young man squeezed his hand.
The sign that he wasn't brain dead meant he was kept alive - and he is now recovering and doing well.
His father, 59-year-old George Pickering II, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after marching into Tomball Regional Medical Center in Texas with a gun.
His 27-year-old son, George III, had been declared brain dead after suffering a massive stroke in January.
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Ping for later
Good for him.
Sounds like a movie. I posted a thread on this late last night. It hasn’t been picked up by our media.
Someone on my thread said this incident happened because the organ harvesting business is huge. This guy had signed an organ donor card and he was fairly young (early 30s).
So they said he was ‘brain dead.’...
The death panel doctors were denied their ‘right’ to pick and choose who lives and who dies- this will not sit well with them
I'm glad that common sense prevailed and the Dad isn't facing further charges.
True love.
A father’s love kept him alive. Praise God.
John Q, starring Denzel Washington.
Wow. I live in the Houston metroplex and never heard a peep about this.
Bless his heart
The anguish
Armed and valorous.
All the media will cover is that the dad was in an armed standoff with the cops. Nothing about the fact the father was trying to keep his son alive. Media bastards.
I am guessing the ex-wife feels pretty bad right now after saying pull the plug.
Good! Now sue these doctors into the stone age.
How long before the death panels decide who lives and dies? and order plugs pulled?
Google News doesn’t show much for coverage in Houston. Looks like you’re getting a media-blackout on the topic.
The initial coverage of the story back in January says NOTHING about why the father was in the hospital.
Should use defense of family (self defense) as his legal strategy.
Father brings gun to hospital to buy time for his ‘brain dead’ son
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3375954/posts
Father, son involved in hospital standoff speak to KPRC 2
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3375658/posts
And, as I’ve posted on the other two threads,
“No sympathy for mean drunks. Particularly big, mean drunks.”
He’s already copped a plea to a felony, done his time, and been released.
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