LOL. Good story. I liked the part of the acquittal due to using a weapon of insufficient caliber.
Big ole Tennessee attack catfish. Very dangerous.
Why was he found guilty of anything? Was it inhumane to not kill the guy and only cause him pain? I would think they’d be happy that the guy wasn’t killed.
Good thing it was suspended though especially since he was 79.
Before modern trauma units, it was powerful enough to ensure the well-shot perp would eventually die, but a light enough load to ensure they suffered for a long time before they did.
No good for a bad gator, but not much less than a 12 Ga. is.
A .22 cleaning wad fired through a Beeman Crow Magnum air rifle would have also given the perp cause to soil his pants.
We had something similar happen here in Columbus MS.
A 79 year old Army Ranger caught his much younger wife meeting one of our former city councilmen. The old guy shot the cheating wife and the crack-head cheating former councilman. Then he shot one of our reserve police officers and had a running gun battle with the police chief. He stole the officer’s patrol car and made a run for it. The cops caught up with him after he had stopped in at the local Walmart, bought more ammo and changed clothes.
As he was trying to escape thru a fence one of the officers shot the man from a distance of about 50 feet. The 45 cal bullet hit him in the back of the head. The local news said that he was taken by chopper to Jackson for his injuries.
Turns out that the local authorities arranged to get him out of town because the 3 he shot and their families were all taken to the local hospital. He was returned to our county jail the next day.
The bullet (again, this was a 45 cal police round) broke the skin and gave him a slight concussion. He suffered no other injuries. THE BULLET BOUNCED OFF THE OLD RANGER’S HEAD.
All 3 who he shot survived and have recovered.
Officer Taylor returned to work at his paying job and as an unpaid reserve officer.
The cheating crack-head former councilman (former because of a felony conviction for selling his city cell phone for crack) has been sent to Parchman Penitentiary to serve out what was a suspended sentence. Seems his blood tests revealed that he violated his probation by still being a crack-head.
No word on what happened with the cheating wife or when the trial will be held.
[who found him guilty of “Failing to use a weapon of sufficient caliber.”]
That was delightful. Here I was worried that we had another “Pendleton 8” mess.
That’s right, Smokey. Don’t play with pop guns next time. But it was a good shot.
“What kind of fish need shooting?”Maybe for the other “critters” you may run into along the way?Yrs ago i was fishin one of the coves in Tierra Verde(near Fort Desoto in StPete)and one of the biggest diamondbacks i’ve ever seen very casually slithered right past me and swam out to a small mangrove island about 30yards out.He was so close i could have spit on em.Talk about shook up.BTW-up to that day i’d been under the impression rattlers had an “aversion” to salt water-not true.
SWORDFISH!!
Haven't you heard...never bring a sword to a gun fight!!! :)
Great little story, although as I am sure you are aware, it has quite long legs and comes around in one guise or another from time to time.
I particularly like it because of the froth and foam-flecking effect the idea that rational men might both intelligently and legally defend themselves with deadly force has on those Shadow-Affective deranged manifestations of evil (AKA “socialist,” “fascists,” “communists,” “Stalinists” and “Democrats”) who project their psychopathology on the rest of us in the form of the kind of moronically mindless Cli’ton-Goresquely mumbled mendacities with which their present champion: the mobbed-up Marxist murtadd Muslim legend in his own lunchtime Arab-African, B Milhous bin B Milhous bin Hussayn Mahummid EGObama has become so well identified.
Love to the only member of your household with two votes.
Warmest - Brian