Posted on 06/12/2013 10:30:02 AM PDT by marktwain
Outside their normally secluded Suncoast Estates home, there are still remnants of the crime scene where 68-year-old Ernie Maroon cornered a would-be crook.
"He put me in a situation where I could have shot him and killed him," Maroon said.
Flashback to yesterday morning: Ernie's wife, Christine, noticed a strange motorcycle outside of their storage shed.
"I walked down and I says, 'oh that's your motorcycle,' and then I heard a noise over in the shed," he said.
That noise turned out to be 17-year-old Lukas Ivey trying to make off with the couple's 2005 Harley Davidson. Ernie believes Ivey snuck in through a window, then used bolt cutters to cut the locks and open the shed so he could sneak off with the bike.
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I guess the ammunition shortage is having an effect.
He might have hit the motorcycle and that would have been a tragedy.
” Ernie’s still bothered by one thing—the fact that he wasn’t 18 and probably not ever going to have anything happen to him.”
Well if he’d shot it then something would have happened to him, odds are the brat would never steel again.
There will be no “warning” shots from me! Ammo is to scarce and expensive! Now I may waste a few rounds by emptying a Mag into an intruder as I eject and insert another fully charged Mag!
Looks like a budding meth-head to me.
He's a lost cause. Hopefully he won't kill anybody before he ODs.
Gets the “real men of genius” award for sure.
Steal something with a “COEXIST” bumper sticker (aka soft target), not a Harley.
Looks like he has a bit more “tude” than he can handle.
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