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Posted on 10/29/2022 4:36:23 AM PDT by marktwain
At this point in the attack, I would say the verbal warning was going away above and beyond what would be expected of a reasonable person to avoid shooting.
If somebody is pulling me out of my car to beat me some more, I would have pretty much abandoned efforts to verbally de-escalate the situation. At that point, my trigger finger is doing all my talking.
“Bucks County 911 received numerous other calls reporting the shooting.“
But no reports about the ass kicking that well preceded the shooting?
2 Attackers won’t be beating anyone else up.
The resultant pearl-clutching and "the DA is promoting vigilantism" whining from the media was absurd. The youth's Mom got airtime, too.... complaining to the media that the homeowner didn't need to shoot her son (the homeowner brought his shotgun to investigate the noise in his shed, and during a scuffle basically shredded one of the youth's legs with a few shots, and the teen bled out). The DA kept his job and I believe was re-elected.
It's good to see that some things in Bucks County remain sunny.
Modi’s Operandi, I think it is easy to guess what went down when multiple unidentified males attack a lone person.
I’m guessing the line guy might have been white.
So the dead perps were steamed clean??
Verbal warnings really aren’t meant for the perps. It’s meant for surveillance cameras and witnesses. It demonstrates that you TRIED to make the perps stop before you shot them.
I know it sounds stupid - and it is - but no one wants to be Rittenhoused.
... or spawning any more attackers.
The attackers were white. I didn’t check for pictures of the shooter.
I get that and thought of qualifying my statement with that, and I agree it’s best to try to draw the attention of witnesses at the outset of the confrontation.
Everyone involved looked white to me. Only minority involved was the Hispanic that tried to help the victim. One of the attackers, by his name, might have been a Dago.
Nothing good happens out drinking after midnight.
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Gay bar?
Not a gay bar — it’s literally within walking distance of our home. Nice, older, middle-class suburban area (baby-boomer families moving in during the 60’s), but there are some questionable “elements” creeping in these days. The dead dudes came from Bensalem & Philly (not good areas)
It’s a small sports-type bar that serves typical pub food & light meals. It’s called “Steam” because it is an old train car (next to abandoned tracks that are now a walking trail) that has been converted into the pub and some shops underneath.
My guess is macho-idiots who felt they were “dissed” and wanted to get payback but got planted instead.
Photos
https://delawarevalleynews.com/2022/10/29/district-attorney-steam-pup-shooting-was-in-self-defense/
There are lots of men who pick fights when they are drunk.
Surveillance footage shows Panebianco, Farrell and Bowman attacking Hughes, punching him in the head and face even after he falls to the ground, authorities said. Hughes told police he’d tried climbing in his car to flee but was pulled back out by one of the attackers. Eventually, he was able to grab his gun from inside the car, authorities said.
“He warned the assailants that he had a weapon and told them to stop,” but “the men continued the attack, and Hughes opened fire, killing two of his assailants and injuring a third man,” prosecutors wrote.
Beer muscles…
I played guitar in bands for years in both dive bars and “nice” clubs. Saw a lot of it. Guys get liquored up, argue over something stupid, like getting bumped or women, and it ends badly.
Nature of the beast, I guess. Old as time.
Moral of story: don’t mess with people; you ain’t as tough as a bullet.
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