Posted on 01/28/2021 9:14:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
There have been at least two separate instances where the victims reported seeing the same two men attempting to steal their dogs.
Imagine you’re with your significant other walking your dog when two men in a car pull up behind you. Both of them, one armed with an AR-15, get out of the car and run toward you shouting, "Give us your dog!"
That's really happening in Houston. Multiple victims have reported two separate incidents of similar crimes.
When Joey Barnhill and his fiancee took their French bulldog for a walk last week near their east downtown home, they never would have imagined the terror they would soon face.
"They both ran at me and they were yelling, ‘Give me the dog! Give me the dog!' and we were scared, and honestly, we didn’t know what to do," Barnhill said.
Surveillance video of the attack is truly frightening.
“The guy had a huge gun pointed right at me," Barnhill said. "Then the other guy, who was a bigger guy, grabbed me and started wrestling me for the dog.”
Then the man with the rifle fired a shot.
"We started to run back to the house," Barnhill said. "In that moment, because I thought, 'These guys are running around the streets with an assault rifle, we need to get home first and foremost.'”
Once they did get home, the men circled their house several times before the police arrived.
The next day, a woman said she found the dog and got Barnhill’s number from the dog’s collar. She said she wanted a reward and arranged a meeting near NRG.
"We had a pretty good feeling that this was a setup," Barnhill said.
Barnhill said he wanted police to go with him but he never got a call back.
(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...
When I saw the title I figured a French Bulldog. Don’t see the appeal.
"...a warning for all dog owners..."
Probably being used as a bait dog.
““The guy had a huge gun pointed right at me,””
An AR-15???
maybe if it was a Barrett .50 BMG she might have had a point.
The story has a funny sort of set up smell to it.
Is there a market for used dogs?
Is the whole country filled with wimps? Meet the gal who wants a reward and put a .44 Magnum in her face.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-54372778
I would DIE before giving up my dog.
I would personally kill him myself before allowing him to be taken by (cannot print the extraordinarily obscene adjective filled phrase here) like these scumbags.
He would have sacrificed himself for me, and fair is fair.
I’d like to meet these folks.
No this is a kidnapping and ransom.racket. How much will people pay to have their furbaby returned? The counter strike is to get back up and go to the meeting with a sniper in his hide put the laser on the chest from distance and watch the look of well played sir well played. Or just snipe them anyways and take the dog off the twitching meat sacks, subhumans who are mean to dogs should be put down that’s my take on it.
Or, pull a handgun and shoot the guy running with a rifle.
Statically, 1 in 4 Texans is armed. It isn’t a good idea to go charging towards people here carrying a rifle
I loathe the term Significant Other.
That’s just the ‘wrong kind’ of dog.
My malinous could have taken on 4 or 5 of them back in the day.
More if they were dressed as the postman...
Oh I know I don’t leave the house without at least 3 firearms. Minimum is two on my person usually a Glock 20 and a BUG in my front pocket keltec P3AT, if need deep concealment then the Ruger LCR 357 goes in the boot along with the P3 in the pocket. I have mag mounts in the roof of my vehicle flush on the headliner that holds usually a 9” short barrel 10mm AR glock cut bolt so the same stick mags for the G20 also work for that PDW. It has a Echo binary trigger on it and you can mag dump at 560 rounds per min verified by high speed camera an entire mag into a E target at 50 feet. When I get pulled over the leo get a kick when they ask if I’m armed. I have literally been asked what am I afraid of by a cop in Austin and I laughed and said not a dam thing.
“I have literally been asked what am I afraid of by a cop in Austin and I laughed and said not a dam thing”
Old story. Told by a cop, after
pulling over an old, heavily armed,
old lady. I actually have a copy
of the news paper article (as told
by the cop).
What kind of seriously dangerous area do you live in that you need/want to carry that much light ordnance? I use the term because the VAST majority of people in war zones (including soldiers) are not as well-armed as you claim to be walking out of your home.
Not denigrating your choice, just curious. Where are you, really?
BTW, your last sentence is a LONG OLD joke, the punchline being delivered by the proverbial “little old lady”.
Having been in combat you can never have enough ammo or firearms. Its my credo. I live rural in high wealth area. I travel to New Orleans, Midland and crappy Houston all the time. I have seen a fire fight that should have been a single mag affair turn into using the full battle rattle of 6 mags in seconds. And I’m aware of the old lady story. I was in Holland Texas speeding got pulled over by the single old man cop working at 2 am. When he leaned in and saw my SB on the roof mount and the under wheel mag mount he said and its a direct quote “Jesus son what are you spooked of that you carry all this” I relied nothing having been boots down in three warzones you can never have to many firearms or ammo carry everything you have space for. He also was a vet and just chuckled and said true enough didn’t even write me a ticket fot 90 in a 70.
I guess I should point out I buy firearms as long term investments usually a pistol or AR a month is my budget the wife gets uppity if I show up with a new 50 cal or custom rifle every month. I’m a consulting geologist drilling ten million dollar holes on my guidance its very VERY well compensated and also been bonds investing day trading and real estate since my early twenties I have rental properties I use my mail box money for “prepper stuff” really they are big boy toys can’t take numbers in a bank computer with you. Lead copper brass and steel will always have value that the printing press cannot erase. Since the Rona has squashed my world travels all those disposable funds also went to preps 3 at a time is nothing on ranch range day it will be a easy dozen with the boys playing ding the steel.
Hint of the green monster but from the heart, GOOD FOR YOU!
Enjoy. You’ve earned it!
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