Posted on 05/25/2015 9:50:49 AM PDT by lowbridge
Hashim Fannin refuses to play the victim role.
When a would-be carjacker hopped into his car in Atlanta earlier this month, Fannin took action.
The suspect, later identified as 61-year-old Edgar Horn, slid into Fannin's passenger seat in an Atlanta parking lot and told Fannin "You know what this is," Fannin recalled to ABC News.
But Fannin pulled out a gun himself.
"By the time he sits down, you know, I've drawn down on him," Fannin said. "At that point, his whole demeanor changes. And now suddenly, you're sorry."
"In so many words, I asked him to get out of the car," Fannin added. "Probably not that nicely."
Fannin said Horn got out of the car and apologized, saying he would leave. But when Horn headed to his own car, Fannin told him he wasn't going anywhere.
"We don't ... try to rob people and then leave," Fannin told ABC News. "That's not how this is going to work."
Fannin said as he kept Horn on the ground, the would-be carjacker told him he was sorry and made a mistake.
"I don't like the victim role too much," Fanning said.
"You went to bed and woke up an idiot?" Fannin recalled telling Horn. "You messed up -- big time."
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I saw him on Fox. He seems like a great guy.
Classic.
Thank goodness this has been posted again. I thought we might go a day without seeing it.
I am of course teasing the person who posted. I often search to see if something is posted and end up re-posting as the search engine for the site leaves something to be desired. THis isn’t a criticism on Jim either; search engines are difficult and often complicated things and I am sure if I donated more we could have a wonderful engine as well as a great site.
Thanks
Never tick off an old geezer, we don’t take things lightly...
could well be the oldest car jacker in history
I did indeed do a search for this story before posting. I searched on the word “messed”. Nothing came up.
Happens to me all the time. Hope you took my kidding well.
Why do intended victims absolutely INSIST on talking to the thug??? Blow the perp away and reduce the violent crime rate by that much more and be done with it.
Just a year to go until social security.
I bet his SS earnings history is not too good.
GA FReeper ping.
A nice local story.
Because most would rather not kill.
If they knew the recidivism rate for convicted criminals was 70% within three years how would they feel knowing that the perp/evil doer they had mercy on gets to victimize someone else?
No mercy for the merciless.
Good reminder that there are also Good Guys in the black community.
Not sure where you live, but in Florida doing that would be something called a homicide...in this case...
Plus I carry and the absolute last thing I want to do is kill another human being, unless I have too...
Excellent point, we get our perception on blacks from the media for the most part, you would think based on news coverage, every black male is a thug, ready to kill, rob, steal and cause mayhem...
The truth is the vast majority just want to live their lives in peace...
Perp jumps in your car with you to carjack you and he has a gun pointed at you. You point your gun and shoot him. How is that unlawful?
I thought you were referring to the perp being on the ground...than shooting him...
Where’d you get that?
Did you read the news story?
“Hope you took my kidding well.”
Yeah, I did :-)
***slips rope back under the bed***
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