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Judge detains copper thieves until cops show up
chron.com ^ | 26 Jan 2011 | AP story

Posted on 01/26/2011 10:24:51 AM PST by smokingfrog

A retired Texas judge with a lifetime in law enforcement says he interrupted a copper theft and held two men at gunpoint until Webster Parish deputies arrived.

Seventy-three-year-old Ralph Yarborough tells the Minden Press-Herald a neighbor called to tell him that a vehicle had dropped off two men at the vacant house where his wife was born.

He says he got a gun and sneaked into the house, heard people in the attic and yelled for them to come down. He says he then shouted that he'd begin shooting holes in the ceiling, and the men came out.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: banglist; copperthieves; yarborough
Here come the Judge!
1 posted on 01/26/2011 10:24:52 AM PST by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

Did he at any time use the expression “I am the Law!”

if he did, kudos.


2 posted on 01/26/2011 10:27:31 AM PST by agere_contra (Historically every time the Left has 'expanded its moral imagination' the results have been horrific)
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To: smokingfrog

30 days for the boogaloo,
30 days for the shingaling,
and 30 mo’ fo’ th’ Afro Twist!


3 posted on 01/26/2011 10:29:22 AM PST by rahbert
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To: smokingfrog
Roy Bean lives!
4 posted on 01/26/2011 10:38:16 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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To: smokingfrog

Ah, another copper caper...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVkZZsS-66c


5 posted on 01/26/2011 10:39:16 AM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Migraine

Ahh... The klepto copper clapper caper!

LOL


6 posted on 01/26/2011 10:52:22 AM PST by smokingfrog (BORN free - taxed to DEATH)
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To: smokingfrog

“The Webster Parish Sheriff’s Office says 18-year-old Steven Aron Studdard of Princeton and 31-year-old Scott Allen Shockley of Dixie Inn were booked Friday with simple burglary”


7 posted on 01/26/2011 10:52:49 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: rahbert

SAS 18 and SAS31. Trailer trash?


8 posted on 01/26/2011 11:00:41 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: smokingfrog

that sounds like Ralph Yarborough.


9 posted on 01/26/2011 11:37:19 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: smokingfrog
Did the judge use a Judge?
10 posted on 01/26/2011 1:24:43 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Palin 2012: don't retreat, just restock [chg'd to comply w/ The Civility in Discourse Act of 2011])
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