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Naked Venice Man Fights Off Burglar, Saves Girlfriend's Laptop
nbc los angeles ^ | 8-6-2014 | Michelle Valles and Mateo Melero

Posted on 08/06/2014 8:21:01 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

Mitch Kirsch got up before dawn Wednesday to use the bathroom in his Santa Clara Street home when he bumped into the intruder.

"He was right in front of me," Kirsch said. "I'm naked the whole time so it was a little awkward."

Kirsch grabbed the man, forced him to drop a laptop he clutched and then let him go.

"I don't really want to hold on to this guy for 10 minutes naked," Kirsch said.

After the burglar ran off, another break-in happened two houses down and police suspect it was the same man. He was described as white, about 5 foot 8 and 135 pounds.

In a one-week period at the end of July, police said they recorded more than 30 property crimes in Venice.

"I was so glad this guy wasn't armed," said Izumi Hamagaki, Kirsch's girlfriend.

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


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Awkward is the word for it, yes.
1 posted on 08/06/2014 8:21:01 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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“I was so glad this guy wasn’t armed,” said Izumi Hamagaki.

We are breeding idiots....


2 posted on 08/06/2014 8:24:38 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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“I was so glad this guy wasn’t armed,” said Izumi Hamagaki.

We are breeding idiots....

How is someone being glad the burglar her naked boyfriend confronted was not armed equate to idiots?

3 posted on 08/06/2014 8:27:16 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Lurker
He was described as white

Isn't that racist?
4 posted on 08/06/2014 8:30:08 PM PDT by logitech (It is time.)
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To: Mastador1

Because they both should have been armed. But they weren’t, because they’re idiots.


5 posted on 08/06/2014 8:33:19 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

So if the intruder was armed, he wouldn’t be an idiot?


6 posted on 08/06/2014 8:33:44 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Lurker

He was naked.... I’m not going to ask where he should have kept his revolver.


7 posted on 08/06/2014 8:36:05 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Lurker

Good to know you always take a gun with when you go to the bathroom.


8 posted on 08/06/2014 8:36:20 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Citizen Zed

Once I got ahold of some 135 lb. punk, he’s not going to feel like wandering down the block to rob somebody else.

(we’re assuming I’m in the same situation as the homeowner in this story....)


9 posted on 08/06/2014 8:36:29 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Kirkwood

My gun is with me always. And there is a weapon within easy reach as well.


10 posted on 08/06/2014 8:42:11 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Kirkwood

Go,back and read the article.


11 posted on 08/06/2014 8:42:48 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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“I was so glad this guy wasn’t armed,” said Izumi Hamagaki.

Why??? You were naked so you had a gun.

12 posted on 08/06/2014 8:45:16 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: Mastador1; Lurker

He meant the naked man and his girlfriend should have been armed. Not the naked man and the burglar.


13 posted on 08/06/2014 8:52:01 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: PistolPaknMama

Give Mama a cigar!


14 posted on 08/06/2014 8:52:56 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: PistolPaknMama

I know what he meant, I was referring to his referring to the girlfriend being an idiot because she was glad the burglar wasn’t armed. Her feelings of relief don’t make her a idiot even we ourselves feel that being armed is a good choice.


15 posted on 08/06/2014 8:56:19 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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Good to know you always take a gun with when you go to the bathroom.

Hey, I do. It's a guy thing. (The rifle will likely remain secured.)

This is my rifle...This is my gun...

16 posted on 08/06/2014 8:57:39 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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But way way back in time, before her feelings of relief, she and the current boyfriend could have armed themselves, unless they’re of the anti-gun persuasion, or just lazy.


17 posted on 08/06/2014 9:00:43 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: PistolPaknMama

Or they’re idiots....


18 posted on 08/06/2014 9:01:34 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: PistolPaknMama

You know, I wonder did you completely miss the part in the story where the boyfriend was naked on his way to the bathroom and bumped into the burglar in surprise not knowing that someone was in his house and there was a quick struggle over the laptop? I don’t know, but do you routinely carry around a gun in the middle of the night while naked going to the bathroom? And nowhere in the story does it say the girlfriend was awake when it occurred. But you seem to know more so maybe you were there. While I exercise my 2nd Amendment rights I respect others who may not just so long as they don’t infringe on mine, I didn’t see anything in the story to lead me to believe they were anti gun.


19 posted on 08/06/2014 9:12:18 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Citizen Zed

He was a hero saving her laptop. She will now take care of his laptop.


20 posted on 08/06/2014 9:16:08 PM PDT by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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