Vacationing Army officer disarms bank robber

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[Jonty30]

I agree.

I guess that is one things about being man. He needs his survival at stake to accomplish great things.

When life is peachy, he starts to play and stop being vigilant.

[smokingfrog]

That is freakin' awesome!

[Gene Eric]

>> Were you looking forward to the opportunity of sending a black man to prison? Just asking.

Don’t play race games around here, noob. If you’re trolling for racists, you’re on the wrong site.

[Jonty30]

It was a response to an equally ignorant posts.

Try to not read things into threads that aren’t there.

[Gene Eric]

>> It was a response to an equally ignorant posts.

Reread the post in question. I interpret the remark as a defense of Staff Sergeant Peoples.

[21twelve]

Last night my son had to right something for school about “the human experience”. He already had two sports heros. I told him - “Watch this. This is a real hero, anda lot of it is due to him wanting to be a great dad.”

My son got the photo of him with his bare arms into the report too!

[Jonty30]

I’m a responsive kind of guy. If my response is ignorant, you can be sure I was responding to a post on that level.

[aruanan]

Because it was obvious that he was pissed that there are legal limits of what you can do to criminals and so I figured he simply wanted to ensure some black man paid for the crime of robbing the pharmacist.

It just seems fair.

Now, if you had said, "Because it was obvious that he was pissed that there are legal limits of what you can do to criminals and so I figured he simply wanted to ensure the criminal paid for the crime of robbing the pharmacist." it would have been pretty unremarkable. However, inserting "some black man" made it the farthest thing from fair. Of course, you could just be an inarticulate writer.

[Jonty30]

I’m fairly articulate, actually pretty good.

Except, I’ve been typing everything on a Blackberry and I have about ten seconds between each post, so double checking my posts to keep them tidy is a bit of a luxury.

I’m just wondering what’s your excuse for your improper use of grammer and proper punctuation?

[Gene Eric]

Take note, aruanan, the challenge was “grammer” not spelling.

[aruanan]

I’m just wondering what’s your excuse for your improper use of grammer and proper punctuation?

I did not abuse Kelsey Grammer! Oh, you mean "improper grammar" (as opposed to "improper use of grammer") and my not using a semicolon before "however," though I did correctly use a comma after it? Still, according to the Chicago Manual of Style: "However has been used as a conjunction since the fourteenth century. Like other conjunctions, it can be used at the beginning of a sentence." And I guess I could have left the period out of the quoted example, but I was giving you an out. Since "inarticulate" goes more toward the relative inability to accurately express what one thinks, if you were not inarticulate in the quote I referenced, then you actually did mean to make a really boneheaded statement. Of course, the use of a Blackberry could serve equally well as an excuse; perhaps Obama should consider the Blackberry defense.

[Jonty30]

If he did, at least he’d have one.

[aruanan]

Barry is a Blackberry addict. In violation of standing protocol he’s kept his personal phone.

[Jonty30]

Somehow, I doubt that anybody is so addicted to a particular medium that they can’t use an accepted communications device.

We’ll just add it to the mystery that makes up Barry.

[aruanan]

Somehow, I doubt that anybody is so addicted to a particular medium that they [sic] can’t use an accepted communications device

Barry refused to give up his Blackberry, so folks got the company to make an extra-secure one for him.

[aruanan]

And that's when Peoples says instinct took over.

Actually, that's when training took over. What kind of training? Aaaaarrmy training, sir.

[dennisw]

Would be very nice if Bank of America gave Staff Sergeant Eddie Peoples or his children’s college fund a nice CD worth a thousand or three. But I don’t expect them to do squat for him other than saying thank you