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Burglar dies after 68-year-old homeowner ties him to tree with ‘multiple layers of masking tape’
washingtonpost.com ^ | 07/31/2016

Posted on 07/31/2016 9:00:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Johnson told authorities that someone knocked on his front door before midnight, Al.com reported. Johnson didn’t answer and continued to wait as he heard the person move to the back door and break the lock, Al.com reported.

Johnson told police that he confronted the person, prompting the suspected burglar to fall or jump off the back steps, Al.com reported.

Johnson subdued the man once he was on the ground and tied his hands behind his back, police told Al.com. The man was later identified as 31-year-old Cleveland Jones Gully.

Police said that after restraining Gully’s hands, Johnson placed duct tape over his mouth and tied the man to a tree using rudimentary materials — electrical wire, rope from a clothesline and masking tape.

“He began to tie him to the tree still in the standing up position,” Stringer told WALA, noting that Johnson used “multiple layers of masking tape that he had wrapped around his mouth and all the way around his head.”

With the alleged intruder tied to a tree, Johnson told police, he returned to his neighbor’s house to alert police.

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


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: alabama; burglar; ducktape
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To: deport; BenLurkin
What part of the USA did this occur in?

Nathanial Johnson had grown tired of the burglaries at his mobile home in the small town of Leroy, Ala., about 60 miles north of Mobile.

You probably could have looked this up on your mobile phone. Or just read the first line in this article. ;-))

21 posted on 07/31/2016 9:21:52 AM PDT by disndat
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To: deport; Daffynition
What part of the USA did this occur in?

Punville.

“He began to tie him to the tree still in the standing up position,” Stringer told WALA

Voilà..

22 posted on 07/31/2016 9:29:15 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: BenLurkin
For when you really need to be sure:

If you've never used this stuff, a quick tip: wear gloves. :D

23 posted on 07/31/2016 9:29:39 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Putting a Gorilla Suit in a Washing machine is a BAD move.)
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To: laplata

I love their slogan. “Spare the duct tape, spoil the job.”


24 posted on 07/31/2016 9:30:11 AM PDT by Guardian Sebastian
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To: BenLurkin

25 posted on 07/31/2016 9:30:16 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: deport

Told the cops he didn’t intend to kill the man when he taped his airways shut. No reasonable prosecutor would charge him with a crime

Worked for Hillary


26 posted on 07/31/2016 9:36:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: disndat

Or just read the first line in this article. ;-))

.........

Yep probably could have had it been in the posted part. But it wasn’t.
Thus either ask or go looking.


27 posted on 07/31/2016 9:38:44 AM PDT by deport
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To: BenLurkin

A sticky situation.


28 posted on 07/31/2016 9:40:05 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: BenLurkin

Worked for Hillary

**************

LOL..... Not every one has Hills connections or pull.

But it solved his 1st problem. Now the next I don’t know.


29 posted on 07/31/2016 9:41:52 AM PDT by deport
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To: econjack
“He doesn’t bother anybody...”

Of course not. He just prefers robbing people in the neighborhood..it's no bother to anyone. How damn dumb can people be to make such comments?

That was the homeowner's niece, referring to her uncle, Mr. Johnson. Mr. Gulley, late of Leroy, Alabama, was the decedent. The way the story is written it's confusing, granted.

30 posted on 07/31/2016 9:44:10 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: xrmusn
The homeowner is black. Not sure about the alleged perp but probably black too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3716397/Police-Suspected-burglar-dead-hes-tied-tree.html

31 posted on 07/31/2016 9:52:17 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: BenLurkin

I would ask for no grand jury and Comey to investigate it. No intent for sure.


32 posted on 07/31/2016 9:52:41 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

My bad...I read it the other way.


33 posted on 07/31/2016 9:55:51 AM PDT by econjack
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To: BenLurkin

Pic of Mr. Johnson and his trailer here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3716397/Police-Suspected-burglar-dead-hes-tied-tree.html


34 posted on 07/31/2016 9:58:23 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: BenLurkin

Yank it off REAL fast.

Only hurt a little while.


35 posted on 07/31/2016 9:58:39 AM PDT by moovova
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To: DannyTN

Funny graphic. I once heard some say
“You cant fix stupid, but you can hit it with a stick!”


36 posted on 07/31/2016 9:59:03 AM PDT by walkingdead (It's easy, you just don't lead 'em as much....)
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To: BenLurkin
"Nathanial Johnson had grown tired of the burglaries at his mobile home in the small town of Leroy"

I wonder if the burglaries will now mysteriously stop?
37 posted on 07/31/2016 9:59:34 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: xrmusn

Both black.

Perp 31, homeowner 68.


38 posted on 07/31/2016 10:05:51 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: moose07

I always wear gloves when I’m taping someone to a tree!


39 posted on 07/31/2016 10:10:12 AM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: Only kidding.)
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To: Do_Tar

Best practice.
:)


40 posted on 07/31/2016 10:15:52 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Putting a Gorilla Suit in a Washing machine is a BAD move.)
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