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Off-duty APD officer shoots road rage suspect in Burnet County [Texas]
cbsaustin ^ | Dec. 1, 2017 | CBS Austin

Posted on 12/01/2017 8:23:15 AM PST by bgill

Captain Chris Jett of the Burnet County Sheriff's Office said the officer was on his way home in the 12000 block of FM 1431 near Smithwick just after 10:00 p.m. when he saw the suspect shooting into a car with family of three.

The officer called 911 and exchanged gunfire with the suspect. The suspect was shot in the chest and ran off into the woods, where he was found.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: california; colorado; roadrage; shooting; smithwick
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To: fireman15

We don’t know why he rammed them off the road. As said above, the road is dangerous and people speed and drive crazy on it. Could maybe have been the shooter was angry because the family was driving the speed limit and were in his way.


21 posted on 12/01/2017 10:38:35 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It’s our specialty here at Cousin Buford’s Freeway Friendly Mobile Car Shooting Gun Range.


22 posted on 12/01/2017 10:44:57 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Bubba_Leroy; Chode; Lockbox
Yes it is one hell of a road. I always thought that it would be a great Race Track if shut down. 183 north to 281 south then left on 1431 in Marble Falls back through Lago Vista/Jonestown and back to 1431 and 183. Repeat.
23 posted on 12/01/2017 10:50:28 AM PST by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

ALWAYS prepare for the unexpected;)


24 posted on 12/01/2017 10:52:20 AM PST by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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To: longfellow

Suggest you rent and watch “LA Story.” And watch the part where Steve Martin and his girl friend Marilu Henner are on the freeway on April first and discover that that is an “open season day” on the freeway, and they proceed to do battle with the Spring Mountain water truck driver who’s using a shotgun!


25 posted on 12/01/2017 10:53:55 AM PST by vette6387
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To: bgill

Is it still only 2 lanes ? Haven’t been that way in10+ years.


26 posted on 12/01/2017 10:58:49 AM PST by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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To: bgill

Austin may be in Texas but it ain’t been Texas for many decades.


27 posted on 12/01/2017 11:16:00 AM PST by fella ("As it wshas before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: DPMD

It’s our specialty here at Cousin Buford’s Freeway Friendly Mobile Car Shooting Gun Range.

Very good!
I laughed and laughed.

Thanks, that was fun.


28 posted on 12/01/2017 11:19:03 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: vette6387

Open Season on the LA Freeway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pmRw_CNCgU


29 posted on 12/01/2017 11:31:25 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: Mastador1

We noticed that! what aholes out here.


30 posted on 12/01/2017 11:57:56 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: bgill

Another happy ending to a story about a driver from one of the western states, perhaps?


31 posted on 12/01/2017 12:13:38 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: bgill

Dash cams and bumper cams are good additions along with cell phones only for emergency calls. Infantile road tantrums should be stopped. Prepare to get the evidence, and legislate the death penalty for them.


32 posted on 12/01/2017 12:20:56 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: longfellow

“...THEY DIDN’T USE THE GODFREY DANIELS TURN SIGNAL...”

Drunken painters!!!


33 posted on 12/01/2017 1:54:58 PM PST by beelzepug (The permanent political class that runs this country is...the great(est) danger we face)
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To: bgill
We don’t know why he rammed them off the road. As said above, the road is dangerous and people speed and drive crazy on it. Could maybe have been the shooter was angry because the family was driving the speed limit and were in his way.

It is likely that there is no valid or reasonable explanation. Many, if not a majority of people these days have no consideration for anyone, particularly when they are driving. Our society has been in decline for my entire life. I do not expect the trajectory to change... especially with people from rougher parts of the world making up a larger and larger percentage of our population.

34 posted on 12/02/2017 8:44:07 AM PST by fireman15
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