He would look a lot better with two black eyes and a broken nose................
Posted on 04/29/2015 10:16:20 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A New Jersey man was scratched and bruised by the time the authorities arrived to arrest him after the neighbors of the elderly man he allegedly stole from decided he wasn’t going to get away with it.
According to the Orlando Sun-Sentinel, 33-year-old Joey Thompson had already stolen $5 and a cellphone from a 77-year-old living in a Pompano Beach, Florida, apartment when he entered another homestead next door. The residents of this second apartment, who were putting their child to sleep at the time, sprung into action, WSVN-TV reported.
“He shoved my husband down on my son’s bed and, you know, he said, ‘Get down,’ and he looks at me, and he said, ‘Get down,’ and I looked at him, and he looked at me, and I just started screaming,” the woman, who asked the news station to only identify her as Amber, said. “So he came at me because I was screaming, and then my husband got him from behind. So when he turned around to start fighting with my husband, I just jumped on his back.”
From there, the fight moved outside where Amber said he flipped her onto the ground and put her in a chokehold.
Amber, her husband and other neighbors all pitched in to detain Thompson for police.
“I heard the woman screaming. She was screaming, ‘help, help,’” Robert Hopkins told the news station. “I jumped over the fence and I just helped her. I held the guy down until the cops came.”
Amber told WSVN she had sized Thompson up before she jumped on him and thought, “Mmm, I can take you.”
With the help of others and as evidenced by the bruises and bandages on his face in his booking mugshot, she was right.
These two homes weren’t the only ones targeted. WFOR-TV added that 8-year-old Katrina Shawfield said Thompson walked casually into her home as well.
“I was scared because I thought he was going to come in and kill something or kill my mom or one of my sisters and brothers,” she told the news station.
According to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, Thompson is charged with home invasion with a deadly weapon, burglary with assault, battery of a person 65 years or older, and criminal mischief.
DANG!
The caption to the perp's picture:
Joey Thompson was arrested on several charges after he entered the many homes and stole money from one before citizens detailed him for police. (Image source: Broward County Sheriff’s Office)
Do they even bother to read what they type anymore?
He would look a lot better with two black eyes and a broken nose................
Spell check is the end of journalism................
Ode to My Spell Checker
Eye halve a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea.
It plainly marks four my revue miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a word and weight for it to say
Weather eye yam wrong oar write.
It shows me strait a weigh as soon as a mist ache is maid.
It nose bee fore two long and eye can put the error rite.
Its rare lea ever wrong.
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Its letter perfect awl the way.
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Some might say that. I say it is the abandonment of pride in one’s work and the added work it takes to assure same.
he better not try and break into the apartment of THIS old Harley Ridin’ Bass Playin’ 2A lovin’ FReeper widow!
My thought on this is not exactly PC.
If some dumb-a$$ punk like this breaks in, I/we somehow manage to get the best of him and feed him to the cops, he will probably get out a few days later and be less than happy about the situation. Being a dumb-a$$, and knowing where I live, he decides to get some payback. Thus my belief that the coroner should be involved during his first, and last, visit to my place.
Maybe detailed is another way of saying he got a "tune-up" before police arrived....
That’s awe sum.
My big peeve is we can get equally capable journalists straight off the street with skills as good. Let's hire some of them bums begging for beer money. The journalists they have now are just rabid liberal diletantes who don't like manual labor - and they cost to damn much.
Go better, go cheaper...... "Shop Smart! Shop S-Mart!" [Line from one of my all time favorite movies. "Gimme some sugar, baby"]
Prrr fekt!
*too damn much
=)
Maybe just plain too lazy to read and understand what they typed.
Purr Feck............
They didnt “detail” him very well. He still has dirt in the carpets and his headlights smudged.
Lol! Wonderful!
Way to go, Amber and spouse and good neighbor, Robert Hopkins!
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