Douglas Nickerson, the perp.
Posted on 06/29/2010 4:13:02 PM PDT by marktwain
SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- A man who deputies say burglarized a home got more than he bargained for when the gun-toting, tough-talking homeowner caught and held him until deputies showed up.
Ken Easler, 73, said he went into his home on Jones Road before heading to the farmer’s market on Saturday morning when he heard someone inside the house.
"I was taking produce to the market," he said. "I was going in the house to get something to drink."
Easler said when he went into the house, he heard someone upstairs. He grabbed his gun and waited for the person to come downstairs.
"I put the clip in and jacked one in the chamber, and when I did, he had already started down the steps. He sat down. He sat down and held onto the rail.
"(He) started saying stuff like, 'I had to use the bathroom so bad. I had to use your bathroom. I was walking down the road and I had this big urge to use that bathroom.'"
But Easler wasn’t having it.
"I told him, you know, ‘You'd better shut up and don't make any sudden moves.’"
Easler ushered him through the house at gunpoint.
"I put him in the bathroom and I told him, I said, ‘If you close the door,’ I said, ‘I'm going to fill it full of bullet holes, so don't close the door.’
"He was saying stuff like, 'I've never done anything like this before. If you let me go, I'll never do it again.’ He said, ‘I don't have anything. I didn't take anything.'
Easler called 911.
"I said, ‘We'll, I've got an intruder in my house and I've got him at gunpoint.’"
He said the man then tried to get sympathy from him.
(Excerpt) Read more at wyff4.com ...
“There’s no crying in robbery!”
Yup my neck of the woods, I think the man should be given a medal for restraint and letting this idiot live. The perp is very lucky he didn’t come down the stairs and got ventilated.
[This is a story well worth reading, a lesson to remember. Criminals lie.]
No they don’t! ;)
Good post. Thanks
Man...sniff...I love happy endings.
This man was 73 years old, the criminal a much younger punk.
Arms are the great equalizer. Leftists don’t like them because they make you able to defend yourself and give you a position of strength.
They can’t make victims out of armed citizens.
Douglas Nickerson, the perp.
As Dad used to say; “Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about.”
...great story coming on the heels of the SCOTUS 2nd ammendment ruling yesterday.
Ken Easler, 73. Can’t wait to see what he does when he’s 74.
Couple things the story didn’t mention.
Do you suppose when the kid came down the steps and ‘met the business end’ of a weapon, did he suddenly have a warm fuzzy feeling in his hind parts?
Did he require a change of clothes???
Also, is it SOP for victims names and a map of where they live to be published?
See, another story with a happy ending..
A gene pool in need of chlorine.
You know, with ears like that, if he had sugardaddies who bought him a suit and a law degree, he could be POTUS someday.
Typical Obama voter, no doubt.
After all, Hair Styling is a Right.
WOW, in celebration of the Supreme Court ruling against City of Chicago, the Second Amendment is in full swing today! Perps dropping left and right!
For what it's worth, that guy doesn't look like an ordinary burglar, who's just out to rob you of your possessions. He looks like someone who has just learned how to get off on violating people's private spaces, and will graduate to bigger and better things some day.
Maybe there's a small chance that staring down the barrel of a pistol may nudge him to go seek Jeebus, but that's neither here nor there where RKBA is concerned.
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