Posted on 03/15/2009 7:00:43 PM PDT by BBell
Fed up with petty crime?
Join the crowd. You can just sit around and belly ache about it, or you can do the double chicken wing.
Meet Garett Majoue.
"I don't call 911," he says. "Some people say I'm a hero. Others say I'm a dummy."
You decide for yourself. (Spoiler alert: Both answers are correct. Don't try this at home.)
Majoue was captain of the wrestling team at Brother Martin in the early '90s. That sets up the rest of the story. It begins in 1999 with a simple errand to Delchamps in Metairie for some ice cream.
For most folks, the kind who prefer to mind their own business and avoid taking unnecessary risks, this sounds simple enough. For Majoue, it was the beginning of the mild-mannered computer software analyst's secret alter ego: Garett Majoue, Crime Fighter.
What happened was, a guy was walking out of the grocery with a bottle of Jack Daniels he hadn't paid for. Majoue watched it happen. On principle, this ticked him off.
He looked to the store security guard. She was huge. I mean, H-U-G-E.
"It was obvious she wasn't going to catch this guy," Majoue says. "So I said: 'You want me to get him?' "
He didn't wait for an answer. He gave chase and tackled the shoplifter about two blocks away and put him in a double chicken wing, Majoue's signature move from back in the day, wrestling for the Crusaders.
The security guard finally moseyed up. Along with the Delchamps manager. He gave Majoue his ice cream for free. And the Law got their man.
Majoue 1, Bad Guys 0.
Now it's 2002. Majoue is visiting his mom at the family abode in eastern New Orleans, where he grew up. He hears a noise outside. "A huge crash," he says.
He goes
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
"I don't call 911," Garett Majoue says. "Some people say I'm a hero. Others say I'm a dummy."
I sure hope I don't open the paper one day and read that this guy got shot. We need more like him. Read the whole article. It goes on to tell how he busted up a mail theft ring.
Wow, I know the houses that he is standing in front of.
So it’s safe to say they are safe, right?
well... he's not tooo bright if he's standing in front of where he lives and somebody out there is looking for a little payback.
NOthing PERSONAL, but if you don’t SUPPORT this MAN in his “mission” of self-reliance, YOU are the whole PROBLEM, DOOFUS!
Cue the standard law enforcement response of “we advise citizens not to take the law into their own hands” in 5...4...3...2...
Ice cream and JD in the same store, sounds like my kind of place.
*Some would say "yeah...it was...". I, for one, have not surrendered. Even if they write a new constitution, raise a new flag, and call it f*ckin' Soviet Obamastan, it is and always will be the United States of America as far as I'm concerned.
Who will stand with me, should the day come?
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