Posted on 07/24/2008 4:59:50 PM PDT by llevrok
MONROE, Wash. – A would-be robber armed with a gun was no match for a husband and wife and their baseball bat early Thursday morning.
The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office says the 24-year-old Monroe man entered the home in the 21600 block of 164th Drive SE around 3:30 a.m. He apparently got in through an unlocked door.
The crook allegedly confronted the couple in their bedroom with a handgun. The couple fought back, beating the intruder on the head with a baseball bat.
The suspect was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with serious head injuries. Once released, he'll be booked into the Snohomish County Jail.
The couple has only minor injuries.
Even though the couple won in the end, sheriff's deputies say the incident is a reminder to lock all your doors and windows.
Harborview is a critical trauma horsepistol. He must have been hit for an in field blooper.
They got all of that one!!!!!
Must not have been swinging for the fences. Lightweights . . . .
Civil lawsuit coming.
“What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy?”
“BASEBALL!”
Pelosi and Reid will now be calling for congressional hearings to ban all baseball bats in the U.S.
“Civil lawsuit coming.”
Not when they have a gun in evidence.
Perfect game!
Bigtime - they’re going to end up paying him for life...
Right On!
SWING BATTER!
See! See! You don't need scary guns to protect yourself and your family! Now let's get back to banning them!
;-)
No self-respecting Seattle citizen would ever fight off a criminal; this happened thirty miles away, across the county line, and more rural where everyone is not a Seattle sissy/wimp.
I hope it was a 32-ounce Louisville Slugger model.
That’s a better average than the M’s have at the moment. Sign ‘em up.
The robber made the mistake of bringing a gun to a bat fight.
Correct. My wife was taken to a localhospital by ambulance, then airlifted to Harborview, where she passed.
If you’re in Seattle, and something happens and they say they’re taking you to Harborview, better have your Will written.
I mean it’s a good hospital and all, but this one is for serious chit!
Should read:
“Once released, the ACLU will take his case as he is suing the homeowners for aggravated assault.
Every damn state in the union need to have a Texas law that says criminals cannot sue victims for injuries they receive committing/attempting to commit a crime.
“Tell Merrill to swing away”
smarmy lawyer will still attempt to make a case. Hinges around how much force was needed to stop the threat, did that level get exceeded and then self-defense turned into a beating?
Trust me, some slimy, smarmy lawyer will argue this. You get enough imbeciles on a jury that watch Oprah and you’ll have a shot at it.
Which is why you never let the criminal live. “I feared for my life, and I did what was necessary to stop the threat.”
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