Posted on 07/20/2020 6:46:35 AM PDT by marktwain
Not in Lubbock, Texas
“Shouldn’t that be “allegedly” shoots?”
Probably not his first time confronting intruders either.
Although unmentioned in the article, I suspect the weapon of choice was a shotgun. Perhaps loaded with 00 buckshot fired from enough distance so pattern dispersion would wound both with one lucky shot. One was wounded badly enough for air evacuation; the other was treated and arrested.
Talk about a series of increasingly bad decisions going sideways. They started out just to steal some used car parts - probably so they could fix a family car. Now the lightly wounded thief is sitting in jail hoping his partner pulls through so he doesn’t end up being charged with murder.
But this is all just speculation.
Since he is in jail, I speculate that his main thoughts are killing the old man. While alive, the jailed thief is a mortal threat
I am counting on old people who are more than happy to rock the boat. They can’t do it all, but they can do the important things.
Yep. That would be another increasingly bad decision to add to the existing pile.
I’m again speculating and projecting, but you have to wonder what the old man would have said had the two just asked him for the parts as an act of charity or, if it was a junkyard, asked for credit so they could get the car back on the road and earn enough to pay for them over time. I know that junkyards are strictly cash and carry but he apparently resided on site so, at his age, this might have been a one-man owner-operator operation with considerable latitude on how the business was run.
That speculation leads to other speculation: why this general disregard for law (they went from stealing used car parts to possibly committing murder in one act) and then, because of their Hispanic family names, you imagine them illegally crossing the border, etc., etc.
Speculation can be entertaining as long as you can remember you are down the rabbit hole and that you entered it voluntarily.
Intelligence is often not a strong suit for the criminal “immigrant” population. It brings to mind the Nebraska boondocks bank robbery where they killed all the people with access to the money before they mentioned that they were robbing the bank.
Not exactly related, but I remember a fellow officer jokester, during one of our professional course clss breaks, noting that the fundamental characteristics of good commanders seemed to be that they were smart but lazy and that, by contrast, good staff officers were smart and hard working.
(Cue a lot of self-conscious laughing since our group was composed of junior officers destined to be either commanders OR staff officers.)
Much later on, when you have a lot more experience and have time to study and reflect, you start to imaginarily run the tape of history backwards and begin to realize the smart but lazy SOBs have been running the show for a long time and the smart but hard working have been earnestly and conscientiously helping them do it.
Returning to your example, draw out a square four sector grid with lazy and hard working across the top and smart and stupid down the side. We could put the commanders in the upper left hand square(smart, lazy); staff officers in the upper right hand square (smart, hard working); and criminals in the lower left hand square (stupid, lazy). That leaves the lower right hand corner (stupid, hard working) for the rest of us.
Of course, your position with the assigned square would be dictated by how strongly you manifested the essential traits. For the criminals in your example, somewhere in the lower left hand corner of the lower left hand corner would seem appropriate.
Shooting everyone before you have the vault open implies that it didn’t matter if they had a plan to begin with; they were not smart enough to execute it anyways.
Fitting...
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