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70-Year-Old Gardner Man Fights Off Home Intruder
CBS Boston ^ | May 9, 2013 | Staff

Posted on 05/10/2013 11:57:10 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy

Seventy-year-old Michael Salame has eight heart stents, nerve damage and apparently quite a right hook, as an alleged home invader found out.

It was about 3 a.m. Saturday when Salame was at home with his girlfriend and heard something outside.

He didn’t realize the intruder, identified as 24-year-old Timothy Adams, had already shattered a window and climbed inside; but early proof the burglar wasn’t on the ball came when he walked right through a door across from the window — putting him right back outside again.

So when Salame spotted the man outside stumbling over his trash barrels, he called 911. By then, Adams was back in the house and the two were face-to-face in the foyer.

“I went to the other side of the house to call the police department and didn’t want to spook him so I didn’t turn any lights on,” Salame said. “I turned around and there he was, he was inside my house.”

Salame said he was in no mood for visitors.

“He came in and that’s when I grabbed him by the throat and slammed him down on the floor and told him to stay on the floor and not to put his hands in his pockets. I didn’t know if he had a knife or a gun on him,” Salame said.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: defense; intruder
From the article: "While the crook ended up in jail, police don’t recommend residents fight intruders."

I agree. If an intruder breaks into your home in the middle of the night, you should not try to fight him.

You should simply shoot him.

1 posted on 05/10/2013 11:57:10 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
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To: Bubba_Leroy

My response to, “there’s nothing in your home worth taking a life over” has been, “he thinks there is”.


2 posted on 05/10/2013 11:59:37 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Gardner, MA. “The Furniture Capital of New England”


3 posted on 05/10/2013 12:00:30 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Jonty30
My response to, “there’s nothing in your home worth taking a life over” has been, “he thinks there is”.

My response has always been that if someone breaks into your home you do not know what they are after. Maybe he is after your VCR or maybe he is a pedophile rapist looking for victims.

Bottom line, if you don't want me to shoot you, then don't break into my home.

4 posted on 05/10/2013 12:02:25 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Puppage

But it’s MA, so there was never any chance that the burglar would get the chair.


5 posted on 05/10/2013 12:12:08 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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“...there’s nothing in your home worth taking a life over...”

Whoever uttered this asinine statement evidently thinks their family’s lives are worth nothing.....


6 posted on 05/10/2013 12:15:37 PM PDT by Boonie
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Salame said he was in no mood for visitors.

Well, there you go.

7 posted on 05/10/2013 12:24:20 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sarah is right.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

How about that a 70 year old man at home with his girl friend! Don’t ever interrupt him! LOL sounds like he has a gun now he needs a firearm!


8 posted on 05/10/2013 12:26:33 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Jonty30

My response to, “there’s nothing in your home worth taking a life over” is my family and my life is worth protecting. If I have to kill someone then they made a career ending choice.


9 posted on 05/10/2013 12:31:25 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Happy Hunger Games! May the odds be ever in your favor.)
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To: Boonie
Whoever uttered this asinine statement evidently thinks their family’s lives are worth nothing....

That reminds me of the joke that goes like this: Mary Anne was walking down a dark street one night when a big man jumped out of the shadows and began tearing her clothes off. She wasn't worried, though. She knew she'd left her money at home.

10 posted on 05/10/2013 12:47:09 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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"I thank God no one got hurt, besides him."

Heh heh.

11 posted on 05/10/2013 5:41:45 PM PDT by grundle
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