Historic population
Population Statistics from the U.S. Census
* 1930: 471
* 1940: 475
* 1950: 457
* 1960: 463
* 1979: 426
* 1980: 373
* 1990: 336
* 2000: 380
Posted on 08/11/2009 4:05:24 AM PDT by Daffynition
LA CROSSE, WA. - Some are calling it La Crosse justices after a man stole another man's wallet and ended up getting tackled, hog-tied and left in the middle of Main Street for the police to find him.
The other day 25-year-old Sean Lee stopped by 69-year-old Larry Garrett's house in LaCrosse with a sad story to tell.
"I need to get some gas, from Seattle, my wife's having a baby in Lewiston and I'm out of gas," Larry recalled.
So Larry paid for Lee's gas, even made him some food.
"He said Oh my God I'm so hungry, hadn't eaten in three days so I said well I'll get you something to eat," Larry said.
He had just finished heating up a plate of frozen taquitos for him when Lee stole his wallet.
"I went over to put my card in my billfold, and my billfold was gone," Larry said.
Lee then took off.
"Boom he was gone. That Son of a B can run like a deer," Larry said.
It turns out Sean Lee should've stayed inside because outside Lowell Garrett - Larry's cousin - was waiting.
"All of a sudden they stepped out on the porch. This guy was on the dead run," Lowell said. "They said stop him, he's got my wallet."
Lee tried to get in his car, to make his getaway but Lowell wasn't letting him get away that easily.
"I grabbed him right by the front of the shirt, pulled him, jerked him," he said.
Lowell then wrestled the man out of the car and onto the pavement.
"Laid him in the street, then June came over and sat on him. I told Steven my brother, I said don't let go of him, I went and got some plastic ties and put those on his legs," Lowell said.
Once they all tied Lee up then they called the police. Instead of taking him over to the sidewalk. They just left him sitting tied up in the middle of the road.
And so there Lee sat under Lowell's watchful eye.
"You leave that rope alone or I'll break your fingers," Lowell recalled telling him.
So in the middle of La Crosse's main street Lee sat hog-tied until the police arrived 20 minutes later. Larry Garrett had some choice words he gave to Sean Lee after the man tried to steal his wallet.
"What the hell's a matter with you," Larry recalled telling him.
The sheriff said that they don't recommend citizens taking these kinds of measures to apprehend someone but in this case it did help them collar a criminal.
Historic population
Population Statistics from the U.S. Census
* 1930: 471
* 1940: 475
* 1950: 457
* 1960: 463
* 1979: 426
* 1980: 373
* 1990: 336
* 2000: 380
That dumb@ss is lucky nobody had any hot tar and chicken feathers.
b. The sheriff said that they don't recommend citizens taking these kinds of measures to apprehend someone.
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riiiigghht!
The problem is when someone comes up to me on the street with a sob story I just assume they're a lying piece of $#& con man and tell them to get lost.
Of course the sheriff said that. There are two reasons:
1. Actions like this tend to result in real reductions in crime. That makes it harder to justify budget increases for law enforcement.
2. An officer spent at least forty minutes picking up the trash that would have been better spent writing tickets.
Number 1 is especially true. Things like this are TRUE deterrants to crime, yet are discouraged sometimes even by prosecution, showing how bizarre this country is becoming.
See post 1.
I’ll bet the sheriff makes an application for increased funds every year. Just like almost every other sheriff/police chief in the US.
If prices of supplies, such as gas, increases. But your premise is based on big city stats. This place has 350 people. Kinda hard to to scam them, don't ya think? Ever lived in a tiny farming town?
Well, Whitman is a Large county. A large one and it probably takes the Whitman Co. sheriff a good while to drive all the way out to Lacrosse from say Colfax (the county seat) or Pullman (home of washington state university).
This story reminds me of how the cowboys rope the little doggies at a rodeo and leave them hogtied. O.o
Let’s save that for our politicians.
The punk got a meal and his gas ....should have left it at that ...but he thought he was smarter than these small townfolk. Meh.
It’s nice to know there are still a few places across the fruited plain that exist where people still watch out for each other. Retro-50s.
Its like this guy in penn station, he would get on the train and announce this big sob story about his pregnant wife. The next day he would pick a stop on that line and say he didn’t have enough to get home. Then I would offer to pay his whole ticket if he was willing to sit w/me. I saw him again on another train but this time in grand central same story. This time I says” what happened to the house in ******?”
.........Murphy's Law applied to small town justice. Scary stuff.
Is it about group-think and lynch mob mentality, or corruption, or ???
It is much larger than those numbers you gave.
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