Posted on 07/31/2016 8:45:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Authorities said a suspected burglar is dead after an Alabama homeowner tied him to a tree after catching the man breaking into his home.
Washington County Sheriff Richard Stringer said 68-year-old Nathanial Johnson caught 31-year-old Cleveland Jones Gully breaking into the back door of his home, about 60 miles north of Mobile, on Friday just before midnight, AL.com reported.
Johnson, who told deputies his home had been robbed previously, had set up a trap that night in an effort to stop any more burglaries from taking place at his mobile home....
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Maybe that’s the stuff they call 100mph tape.
It's also useful to put on the back of your balloon car to allow the radar to get a good reflection....
In Alabama? Probably not.
There was no marks on the body. Unless he poisoned the man. They haven’t done an autopsy yet.
What I don’t get is why he duct taped the burglar’s mouth in the first place. I see why it would be deeply satisfying to ‘shut that boy up good!’, but that step wasn’t necessary from the info I’ve seen.
I think he probably did both. He tied the guy’s hands behind his back pulling his shoulders and upper arms back. Tied in front his upper arms would give the chest a little buffer from the compression of the tape and clothesline.
Then he may have tied the chest real tight giving it little room to expand. He may have really gone overboard and wrapped tape/clothesline below the diaphragm preventing the abdomen from expanding and getting a breath that way.
Simply taping the mouth was bad. Most people couldn’t get enough breath through the nostrils when they’re excited. Combine that with restricting the chest and abdomen too much and that might be a perfect storm for suffocation. The article says the cops were there in ten minutes and he was already dead. Oh, and if he had asthma...
WTF? lol
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