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Elderly man fights off intruders, fatally shoots one of them
AP ^ | 12/7/2017 | AP

Posted on 12/08/2017 6:08:13 PM PST by mdittmar

Edited on 12/08/2017 6:40:36 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. (AP)

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
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To: mdittmar

I love reading stories like this although I feel bad for the folks forced to take a life.

There should be a ministry devoted to helping these people cope.


41 posted on 12/08/2017 7:51:43 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Bonemaker

I’m old. But not sure if I’m too old to fight. smile. (turn 70 this month) My father is 92, (WWII Vet) he is still a pretty good shot. He still likes guns.


42 posted on 12/08/2017 8:00:53 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: glorgau

Helps the police if you can mark the perp for identification. They told me that.

That is one feisty 84 year old—God bless him and his family. How wonderful that he refused to be a victim.


43 posted on 12/08/2017 8:35:30 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: mdittmar

This old man is never 20 ft from my Barrette


44 posted on 12/08/2017 9:21:22 PM PST by heights
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"In a holster that is tacked to the back of the headboard. "

Dang! You are lucky... If I have a break-in:


45 posted on 12/08/2017 9:25:37 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: SuperLuminal

I have a gauge on both sides of the bed.

:-)


46 posted on 12/08/2017 9:33:16 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Learn How To Search. Ask Me How.)
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To: heights
This old man is never 20 ft from my Barrette

You know, I don't have enough hair left for a barrette, although I think autocorrect has struck you.

47 posted on 12/08/2017 10:33:02 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: mdittmar

What a happy story.


48 posted on 12/09/2017 12:11:11 AM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: C210N
As the saying goes, don’t pick a fight with an old man, he’ll just shoot you.

Yep - and "Old age and treachery will beat youthful exuberance every time"....

49 posted on 12/09/2017 4:00:50 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: sparklite2

Urban myth.


50 posted on 12/09/2017 4:05:28 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: CurlyDave

autocorrect is a pain


51 posted on 12/09/2017 4:12:54 AM PST by RaginRak
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To: AlaskaErik

I was watching some kid wandering around in our neighbor’s back yard and grabbed my shotgun and kept watching, with phone in hand calling the police. The kid hopped my wood fence. I stepped outside and yelled “Hey!” and lifted the shotgun up a bit higher with one hand. He cleared that 6-foot fence like it was nothing!

The police were there in 5 minutes, but I’m guessing they never caught him as they never returned back to my house to ID him or anything.


52 posted on 12/09/2017 4:20:32 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: mdittmar
When I was in grade school I used to sleep with a cap gun under my pillow. One morning I woke up to find that I'd fired it during the night. I quit keeping it there after that. Now I have a burglar alarm, and keep my gun on the nightstand.
53 posted on 12/09/2017 10:09:21 AM PST by JoeFromSidney
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To: riverrunner

I’m not surprised.


54 posted on 12/09/2017 10:39:41 AM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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