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No charges for woman who fatally shot I-5 driver during road-rage incident, prosecutors say
Tacoma News Tribune ^ | 3/17/18 | Alexis Krell

Posted on 03/17/2018 4:52:22 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie

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To: Mears
"Are you serious?"

Yes.

Had no idea.

I thought maybe it was this.


61 posted on 03/17/2018 9:01:24 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: al baby
"As Jones tried to climb on top of her, she shot him in the chest with a handgun. He died at the scene."

The above is from the subject article. Where did you get "shoulder"?

62 posted on 03/17/2018 9:16:32 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Donald J. Trump- El Presidente Por La Vida!)
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To: familyop

Washington State. When I first read of this awhile ago, it sounded pretty clear that the shooting was justified. I showed my daughter the article. “The guy did this with his wife in the car!?”

I ended with “That motorcycle gal might be dead if she hadn’t had a gun.”


63 posted on 03/17/2018 9:28:02 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: Uncle Miltie

She got roughed up and was still able to shoot him which is pretty impressive. If he were half his age it may have turned out different for her. I wonder how dumb he was at 30?


64 posted on 03/17/2018 9:42:33 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: 21twelve

I showed it to a young lady here, too. Good for them to know about some cases.


65 posted on 03/17/2018 9:44:08 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Vendome

Vendome: Re “not if yer shot in a jersey”.

Nobody gives a damn if you are shot in New Jersey. Just another typical day in the Crime State.


66 posted on 03/17/2018 9:50:25 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

A Jersey barrier, or Jersey wall, is a modular concrete or plastic barrier employed to separate lanes of traffic


67 posted on 03/17/2018 10:41:04 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Uncle Miltie

So there is still an a$$hole biker riding around who thinks they own the road.


68 posted on 03/18/2018 12:45:14 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Vendome

I know what a Jersey Barrier is but I was making fun of the stupidly worded sentence.

Sounded like he was shot in a shirt. Jersey Barrier is a proper name for an item and should have been either spelled out or put in with Caps.

I hate piss-poor writing. I’m editing several chapters of a book I’m helping with and will make some corrections/additions for clarity that she missed. I will also provide the “context” for those changes, which to the untrained eye may seem minor, but to the legal eye and scholars eye, are major changes.

A friend of mine, who should have known better (he didn’t consult me), ended up getting sued by a very nasty attorney for defamation (the attorney, who I knew, was a crazy leftist but he picked up on one set of mistransposed words and he created legal hell for my friend) and reportedly cost him about $10,000 to settle the lawsuit.

Here at FR we can screw around with words, but you still have to make your meaning clear. “shot in a jersey” means absolutely nothing to me. It may be a local expression but I’m not a “local” of where the event took place.


69 posted on 03/18/2018 1:03:51 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Guess we were both making fun of grammar...

Sieg Heil ...


70 posted on 03/18/2018 1:36:39 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Kartographer

Witty but totally lost on some on this very thread


71 posted on 03/18/2018 1:42:15 AM PDT by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

” Jersey Barrier is a proper name for an item and should have been either spelled out or put in with Caps.”


Should be Jeyser barrier, instead of Jeyser Barrier or jeyser barrier, methink.
Good grief about crappy writings though.


72 posted on 03/18/2018 2:04:28 AM PDT by miniTAX (au)
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To: FreeperCell

He was in a huge suv with his wife; she was a 23 year old on a motorcycle............he sounds like a huge enraged crazed bully, she is lucky she had a gun.


73 posted on 03/18/2018 3:30:16 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: samtheman

Wife probably gave a lot of the details......


74 posted on 03/18/2018 3:32:37 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham; al baby
Yeah - take a look at the anatomy of the shoulder sometime. There are a whole bunch of nerves and blood vessels in that area. "It's just a shoulder wound" should be "OMG!! I'm shot in the shoulder!"

If it just went through the deltoid muscle, then no issues, although those muscles are a very small target on most people. If it goes through what is conventionally defined as "the shoulder", if you look carefully at those wounds in the movies, you will note that it's actually more like the upper chest. Those wounds can be bad news.

75 posted on 03/18/2018 4:47:00 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: al baby
I thought most shoulder wounds were survivable?

Marshal Dillon gets one most every day.

76 posted on 03/18/2018 4:51:08 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Uncle Miltie

I’m on her side. Personally I carried a hammer in my decades of highway riding. When somebody got dangerously-to-me aggressive I dented his fender. The sudden sound caused the drivers to swerve the other way. I did not do it if the traffic was sparse because then I could not cut away from through traffic and use other cars for my shield. It used to be a jungle out there for motorcycles especially in the seventies and into the first of the eighties. More han one deliberately tried to push me off the road or into oncoming traffic. I was not a show-off with my riding because I was travelling. I rode even and steady.


77 posted on 03/18/2018 6:01:17 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (yio)
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To: hanamizu

Same phenomenon. Given it was coastal Washington, were the driver black and she a man she would have been charged and there would have been a spectacular MSM and jury trial.


78 posted on 03/18/2018 6:03:22 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (r)
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To: bigbob

More often the good guy wins in these things, I think, because the bad guy is totally surprised that the victim is armed. Store clerks dying in shootouts do make little headlines occasionally.


79 posted on 03/18/2018 6:05:19 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (re)
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To: ifinnegan

It is those trapezoidal sectioned concrete barriers that are placed with forklifts.


80 posted on 03/18/2018 6:06:08 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (ref)
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