Posted on 03/07/2009 7:46:57 PM PST by JohnPierce
I will bet good money that you have heard the advice “If you shoot an intruder on the porch, the first thing you do is drag him inside”. I have yet to meet someone who hasn’t heard this gem from an uncle, grandfather or cousin twice-removed. The person giving the advice often seeks to imbue it with authority by swearing that it was a police officer, judge or attorney who shared this sage wisdom with them.
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That has a lot more chance of getting you off than messing with the evidence.
Times change... But is is a good tale. Most people would panic and not know what to do anyway.
The one thing you always say to the Police is: I WAS IN FEAR OF MY LIFE. And stick with it.
Clean hands matter...
The initial statement must establish to the police that one was in fear of death or great bodily harm and fired to protect their own self or others.
Don’t forget to spill the coffee in your lap.
(Put ice cubes in it first, so you aren’t screaming with REAL pain!)
Good advice; Welcome to posting on FR.
If it's a good blog why not?
Maybe you pull your piece on him, march him into the house then shoot him. No inconvenient splatter out on the porch.
Don’t be so tough on newbies- you have no idea how long he’s been lurking or whether he’s posted under another name.
I had a police officer tell me the same thing.
If you are unarmed, grab the phone (being careful not to let the phone slip through bloody fingers) and dial 911. Each subsequent time the illegal alien shoots you, scream invectives into the phone at the 911 busy signal.
In this manner you will be assuredly safe from all lawsuits and/or police charges. (Unless, of course, you happen to splatter blood onto the illegal scumbag. This most certainly will get you charged with some sort of "littering" or "desecration" or "human rights" crime.)
The laws in Texas are a bit different than those you have to contend with up there in Minneapolis. (And I'm thankful for that.) Texas has always had generous laws on this topic.
In Texas, the time of day is taken into account when a homeowner shoots an intruder. If the shooting takes place at night, a homeowner is justified in using deadly force to protect life and property. There's a well-known case --- think it was here in Austin --- of a man who leaned out of his second-story window and shot someone who was stealing his car out of the driveway. The shooter was no-billed.
In fact, if the car had been in the driveway next door, that shooter would still have been justified. In fact, if the thief had been able to get the car started, and had driven away, the shooter would still have been justified.
If someone is on my porch, say, stealing my porch furniture, I would likely call 911. If, however, the person on my porch was testing the windows, or jiggling the doorknob, they could very well be toast.
Take what happened to me a few months ago. I live in an apartment, on the second of three floors. At that time, the people above me were college students, and on Friday and Saturday nights, they would come home drunk and, at three a.m., make their way to their apartment with much drunken noise and loud talk. I'm a nightowl, and do my best work at night, so I hear them.
One Friday night, I was sitting near the door, working, at 3am, when someone jiggled my doorknob. I muted my television, and the doorknob jiggled again, this time accompanied by a fist beating on the door. (It wasn't a knock.) The fool escalated to kicking the bottom of the door, hard, and yelling to be let in, with profanity. I called the courtesy officer (a policeman who lives a couple of buildings up) and 911, and then prepared for my door to be kicked in.
Fortunately for all concerned, I was able to explain to the cretin (at the top of my lungs through the door) that he needed to go up one more flight of stairs. That, and the courtesy officer's appearance on the scene, got him out of my hair. Still, it's nice to know that I would have been able to defend my home, if necessary, without worrying about retreating from this fool.
I invite you to peruse the Texas Penal Code, Title 2, Subchapters C and D particularly.
Y'all up yonder in Minnesota need to get busy and revamp y'all's laws! <grin>
Bad advice: They'll figure it out in a minute.
However, CPR should be given on a flat, comfortable surface. :)
That’s difference between a shooter and a marksman.
[if he tells you how it’s done, he’ll have to kill you]....:))
It only works if you are a cop.
Interesting. So maybe shoot shovel and shut up, really is the best advice.
I got the cannoli reference, but a throw down piece is putatively a weapon, probably confiscated from a previous suspect, that a police officer carries in case he shoots a suspect, who later turns out to be unarmed. He throws in it down near the suspect and claims that it was the suspect’s weapon.
I remember when the kops shot a 12 year old black kid in my old neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens, they didn’t find any weapon at the scene, but subsequent “searches” turned up a vertiable arsenal. The cop was tried for, I believe, second degree murder but acquitted based on a defense of mental illness. He was sent to a mental hospital where the doctors could not find him suffering from any mental disorder, so they had to set him free.
It really wasn’t funny. The kid had accompanied his 55 year old step father to the junk yard where he worked to pick up his pay, in cash, on a Sunday morning. Sunday morning because the chances of getting robbed were less on a Sunday morning. The kid carried the money with instructions to run if they were confronted by robbers. A couple of plainsclothes cops dressed up like white pimps who were searching for suspects in a taxi robbery confronted them and yelled for them to stop. The kid took off and the cop shot him in the back. It was poor police work and he should have been convicted.
I am probably the least likely person to actually shoot someone but I will try to remember that if it ever happens. LOL
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