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Hardware store owner robbed 15 times in three months catches crooks ... in his store with gun
Daily Mail ^ | 9 April 2013 | James Nye

Posted on 04/09/2013 11:43:06 AM PDT by george76

After 15 burglaries over three months, a California hardware store owner took the law into his own hands by catching the men he suspects of robbing him saying, 'This is my property; I’m going to defend it.'

Fed up after losing thousands of dollars worth of gardening equipment and spending money on surveillance cameras and new fencing, Darin Fowler decided the only option was a stake-out.

So on Friday night, Fowler waited up until the early hours of the morning and at 3.30 a.m. pulled his gun on the two unsuspecting men he caught taking equipment out of the store lot.

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Law enforcement officials then searched Masterson's home and found equipment stolen from Fowler...

The spate of robberies began at the turn of the year and according to Fowler had left him feeling annoyed and defenseless.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: banglist; ca; defense; guncontrol; robber; secondamendment; secondammendment
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Hardware store owner robbed 15 times in three months catches crooks after camping out in his store with gun

1 posted on 04/09/2013 11:43:06 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76
Tweakers.


2 posted on 04/09/2013 11:49:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You know damn well who the brain of the operation has been.


3 posted on 04/09/2013 11:49:49 AM PDT by MNDude (Have you ever noticed how many hate filled atheists there are on the Internet?)
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To: george76

Burglary isn’t “robbery.”


4 posted on 04/09/2013 11:50:03 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do I hear a banjo playin’?


5 posted on 04/09/2013 11:50:44 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude

LOL!


6 posted on 04/09/2013 11:58:34 AM PDT by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: MNDude

“You know damn well who the brain of the operation has been.”

Yeah, the “conehead” on the left! Looks like an escapee from Area 51!


7 posted on 04/09/2013 12:05:57 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: george76
It's something seriously deficient with perps who robs the same place over and over. Did they really think (and I apply that term loosely) that nothing was going to happen to them?

8 posted on 04/09/2013 12:12:08 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: vette6387

He could hang a donut from his chin and go to a Halloween party as an exclamation point.


9 posted on 04/09/2013 12:12:22 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid (Demand Common Sense Nut Control.)
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To: george76

When hand guns are outlawed, perps will get mowed down with shotguns


10 posted on 04/09/2013 12:15:06 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Who's your daddy?

11 posted on 04/09/2013 12:26:36 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: MNDude

You do?


12 posted on 04/09/2013 12:32:27 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: george76

So how long before the great state of California arrests the store owner for assaulting these poor, defenseless, cherubs with his evil assault weapon of mass destruction?


13 posted on 04/09/2013 12:44:36 PM PDT by Dracomeister (The older I get the less I care about what other people think.)
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“Hardware store owner robbed 15 times in three months”

Average of more than once a week. The cops do much policing down there?


14 posted on 04/09/2013 2:29:59 PM PDT by beelzepug (Telling other people they need to die is a good way to get your own lamp blown out.)
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To: oh8eleven

You get the prize!


15 posted on 04/09/2013 2:30:51 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: oh8eleven

“To Serve Mankind”


16 posted on 04/09/2013 4:56:50 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The arch villian Egghead strikes again.


17 posted on 04/10/2013 5:27:24 AM PDT by winodog
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Dillon Masterson”

Named after lawmen/gunfighters (one fictional). Ironic.


18 posted on 04/10/2013 12:21:46 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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