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80-year-old Wisconsin Man Beats Back Thief with Shoehorn (WEIRD)
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| January 5, 2007
| LUKAS I. ALPERT
Posted on 01/05/2007 3:01:32 PM PST by DogByte6RER
WEIRD BUT TRUE
By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Wire Services
January 5, 2007 -- An 80-year-old Wisconsin man beat back a thief - with a shoehorn.
Police said the would-be burglar kicked in the man's door, demanded cash and threatened to shoot him. But the victim picked up a long shoehorn and began smacking the robber with it, driving him from the home.
Unfortunately, that drove the man to another home, which he robbed. He was later arrested.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; selfdefense; shoehorn; weird
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Well now...it's only a matter of time before Sarah Brady and Charles "Chucky" Schumer propose a 10 day "cooling off" period for anybody purchasing a shoehorn! They might as well toss in mandatory criminal background checks and a one-shoehorn-per-month purchasing law to prevent those "straw buyers" from buying trunkloads of shoehorns and transporting them across state lines.
This is where we end up as a society due to the illogic of the liberal gun-grabbers...
To: DogByte6RER
To: DogByte6RER
When shoehorns are outlawed, only outlasw will have shoehorns.
To: DogByte6RER
Here is a photo of the offensive weapon better known as the shoehorn. Notice how this dangerous device is easily concealable by slipping the horn end in the back of the shoe and then concealing the rest of this dangerous weapon behind the lower leg!
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posted on
01/05/2007 3:03:53 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
Don't bring a gun to a shoehorn fight.
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posted on
01/05/2007 3:04:41 PM PST
by
Huntress
(Proud owner of Norman/Norma, the transsexual attack cat.)
To: DogByte6RER
That's clearly an illegal assault shoehorn - much more dangerous than your regular hand shoehorn. Surely even the NRA can agree that assault shoehorns must be banned.
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posted on
01/05/2007 3:11:12 PM PST
by
Argus
To: Fierce Allegiance
"From My Cold Dead Hands!"
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posted on
01/05/2007 3:13:09 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
they have to do some "ballistic" horn printing, too.
to see what kind of marks the new horns leave on heads.
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posted on
01/05/2007 3:13:28 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
To: DogByte6RER
I think the foot is complicit. Anyway, it sure "shoed" that guy.
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posted on
01/05/2007 3:15:58 PM PST
by
InvisibleChurch
(Tempus Fidget - The time between the final hymn and recessional.)
To: DogByte6RER
Some days you get the bull, some days you get the horn.
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posted on
01/05/2007 3:16:21 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Voted Free Republic's Most Eligible Bachelor: 2006. Love them Diebold machines.)
To: Roscoe Karns
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posted on
01/05/2007 3:17:57 PM PST
by
TheKidster
(you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
To: Joe 6-pack
The robber was tracked down and arrested by a sleuthy Gumshoe, after he tried to horn in on another home owner's property.
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posted on
01/05/2007 3:20:31 PM PST
by
TheKidster
(you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
To: DogByte6RER
Horny old man beats off intruder.
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posted on
01/05/2007 3:22:22 PM PST
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
To: savedbygrace
I've embarrassed myself with that one.
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posted on
01/05/2007 3:22:58 PM PST
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
01/05/2007 3:26:10 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: DogByte6RER
And, as he smacked the fleeing intruder, the man yelled, "Shoe! Shoe!"
To: savedbygrace
I've embarrassed myself with that one. Not at all. That took guts! :)
To: Huntress
To: DogByte6RER
The assault shoehorn reminds me of the mega ice scrapers that they sell in cold states.
They make them so they can be used as a club if need be. Some are so burly as to be impractical for scraping ice and brushing snow off your car. But they are legal and cant be classified as a weapon.
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posted on
01/05/2007 4:02:31 PM PST
by
Beagle8U
To: Diana in Wisconsin; MotleyGirl70
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posted on
01/05/2007 5:16:39 PM PST
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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