[marktwain]

Glad to see a followup on this story from more than a month ago.

[marktwain]

Hat tip to yefragetuwrabrumuy.

[PAR35]

Two Italian surnames? Maybe I’m stereotyping.

“the burglar entered his home, held a gun to his head and said there was a “contract out” on him. “

No, I don’t think that I am. The mobster that put out the hit better start sleeping with one eye open.

[verga]

Reminds me of the scene from the movie “Tough Guys” with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. They were released from prison in their 70’s later in the movie a young punk tried to rob them and Kirk Douglas beat the snot out of him.

[Secret Agent Man]

More of a man at 90 than Obama will ever be.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I guess the perp deserves the nickname “Leadbelly” on two counts—first, carrying three slugs, and second, not going down after being shot (although it would have been more just if he died on the spot).

[FormerACLUmember]

Always have your enemy advance under a wall of gun fire.

He may eventually kill you with your own weapon, but he’ll have to beat you to death with it, since all the bullets will have been fired.

[JRandomFreeper]

'For some reason, it didn't kill you.

I've had a doc say something similar once. At least when he says it, you can take comfort that you ARE living life, and not standing on the sidelines observing.

I'm a firm believer that any well lived life is going to have a couple of hair-raising stories.

And that 90 year old certainly has another one.

/johnny

[alpo]

“...sufficient evidence to hold a trial.”

I think Helen Keller could rule on this one.

[flatfish]

Needs a larger cailber gun....

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[roadcat]

Cutrufelli, a 30-year-old Novato resident, said he had shot himself and needed medical attention, according to Twin Cities police.

So, he apparently took the .38 revolver with him when he fled. But what a shaky lie - he shot himself three times in the abdomen? Seems to me, if you were to shoot yourself once, that's when you seek medical attention! But three times, ouch! What a bad liar!

[maine-iac7]

a good example of why “if you have to shoot, shoot center mass” is the rule.

Had he shot center mass -the guy would not have rushed him and had hand to hand combat or been able to run away.

Leone is lucky -

That said, a nice little shotgun is the best deterrent. Just the sound of a shot gun racking will send the baddest of the bad scrambling

[exit82]

When a residential burglar fired a gun at Jay Leone last month, he was initially too angry to realize he had been shot in the head, he testified Friday. "To tell you the truth, I never felt a thing," said Leone, 90, of Greenbrae. "I said, 'F—- you, you son of a bitch, now it's my turn.'"

Whereupon he shot five bullets at the suspect from his .38-caliber Smith & Wesson snubnose revolver, hitting the burglar three times in the abdomen. A scuffle ensued between the wounded men.

I love this guy. You fight a man this old, and he just might kill you.

My only regret is three .38 slugs didn't finish off the perp.

[TigersEye]

...he described how the bullet entered his jaw area and exited the back of his neck, avoiding a fatal wound but eventually leading to a jaw infection, pneumonia and a breathing tube.

"The doctor says I'm healing well," Leone said. "He said, 'For some reason, it didn't kill you.'"

Even the doctor was amazed and rightly so. Lots of vitals packed into that area; carotid arteries, jugular veins, spinal cord, medulla oblongata, ...

Definitely a tough old bird...

Outside the courtroom, Leone, a fitness buff and former member of the sheriff's air patrol, said he would like to go another round with Cutrufelli, perhaps in a classic duel at three paces.

LOL "Get off my lawn!"

[AnTiw1]

God bless that warrior man

[smokingfrog]

"To tell you the truth, I never felt a thing," said Leone, 90, of Greenbrae. "I said, 'F—- you, you son of a bitch, now it's my turn.'"