Abductee in Mississippi beats alleged sex attacker

The Mississippi Press | 8/12/2009 | HOLBROOK MOHR

[Peter Horry]

(AP) — JACKSON, Mississippi - Police had been watching Vincent Goff for years, convinced he was the masked man who sexually assaulted couples at gunpoint on the Mississippi coast. But before investigators closed in, they say Goff picked the wrong victim and was beaten nearly to death with his own rifle.

Goff, a 37-year-old unemployed Biloxi man with a wife and two stepsons, was being held Wednesday in the Harrison County Jail after spending five days in a hospital recovering from severe head wounds.

Little is known about Goff's background or the unidentified man who beat him so hard that the wood stock of the rifle broke. But authorities say Goff's arrest caps a terrorizing series of attacks that began on the sandy banks of the Biloxi River in 2006.

[B-Chan]

“Perhaps there is a God after all, Pedro.”

[EmilyGeiger]

Wow, justice applied! A deserved beating.

[basil]

I love this story.....

[Lurker]

The only thing that could have made it better was the line:

"Doctors are still trying to remove the rifle barrel from his rectum, although they say there's no rush as the man pulled the trigger after putting it there."

[Peter Horry]

Rest of story here.

http://www.gulflive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/national-18/125010330057750.xml&storylist=miss_news#continue

[MrPiper]

I do so love a story with a happy ending..... sniff, sniff. :-)

[AlaskaErik]

All I can say is that the perp wasn't beaten nearly enough if he only needed five days in the hospital.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“unidentified man who beat him so hard that the wood stock of the rifle broke. “

In this case, not hard enough.

[basil]

Right on!

The thought ran through my mind that the anti 2A people are prone to rant that you shouldn't have a gun because the bad guy might grab you and hurt you with it! This is one time that they are right--LOL!

[DejaJude]

when the male victim, described as a physically fit member of the military in his mid-30s, wrestled the gun away.
"He beat him until the stock broke over his head and then continued to beat him until he thought he had him incapacitated," Pullen said.
As the victims were getting dressed and calling police, the attacker staggered to his car and sped away.

Didn't hit him hard enough as he was able to get up.

[wastoute]

My favorite medicine. Many ailments can be healed with the "buttstroke". I can think of a number of people whose condition would be thusly improved.

Μολὼν λάβε

[Venturer]

Just a few more licks across the head might have done the job.

[badpacifist]

I know what I would have done if the rifle was loaded.

[TC Rider]

I can’t believe how heartless everyone is here at FreeRepublic.

Don’t any of you have any feelings or sympathy for the rifle?

It should have been used as intended, not as a club.

[vladimir998]

Actually shooting him would have been too easy.

Now he gets to go to prison. We know what often happens to people like this in prison.

He may end up knowing exactly how his victims felt.

[usmcobra]

Little is known about the unidentified man who beat him so hard that the wood stock of the rifle broke.

[arthurus]

Or he may enjoy it.

[El Gato]

Goff picked the wrong victim and was beaten nearly to death with his own rifle.

Unecessary use of force. The victim should have used the rifle for it's designe purpose. To launch a small piece of lead, jacket, and what have, you a high speed.

[Tahoe3002]

Stock broke?
I would have been more impressed if the barrel was U shaped due to the whacking his head received.