Bubblehead Ray and Country Singer send us a link to an article from Georgia where young Damien Durham robbed a convenience store in broad daylight to jump-start his new life. What he didn’t expect was that the small town of Rhine got plumb mad dog mean, they hastily formed an ad hoc posse, spread out around the town on foot and their vehicles to round up the outlaw;
“People just kept coming around and they were mad, people in Rhine were mad,” [60-year-old Ken] Lowery said. “Here we had an armed robbery in the middle of the day at Aden’s and they wanted to form a posse.”
Lowery says more than 20 people, many of them armed, spread out looking for the gunman, in trucks and on foot.
“We didn’t have no leader of it all, we just went all our separate ways and the people in Rhine they knew they were going to get that rascal,” Lowery said.
Lowery, a retired corrections officer, ended up tracking the suspect down roughly 200 yards away from the store. He fired a warning shot from his deer rifle and says the suspect stashed his gun and money, and hid in a nearby shed, where he was soon arrested by Dodge County sheriff’s deputies.
That ought to bring the crime rate down in Rhine for a while. But I suspect that it wasn’t that high to begin with.
“We didn’t have no leader of it all, we just went all our separate ways and the people in Rhine they knew they were going to get that rascal,” Lowery said.
We can’t have any of this no leader crap. Who do they think they are; Free citizens? We should have a government employee running around saying “Did you see where they went? I must find them I am their leader.
Ah, the venerable Posse Comin’ Attus…or somethin’ like that. What a hoot.
Citizens protecting their community?! What’s next? Cats sleeping with dogs?!
Good on them. Convenience store robbers are a plague upon this land.
Well, dagnabbit, these people should move up here where I live. There’s some idiot goin’ around, robbin’ banks and credit unions in broad daylight. The county sheriffs and them there FBI felles are lookin’ for him, and they can’t catch him. We need them there ever-vigilant citizens of Rhine, GA, to help us out.
What about beer for the horses? (I know I’ve seen that some place before.)
Beer for my horses is a Toby Keith song about a posse and justice.
Sounds like something that could happen in my own neighborhood. Yeah, it’s a great neighborhood.
..and like old time lawmen I do believe that the man pictured has a lever action Marlin. Over 100 yr old design and still working to collect the bad guys. Black Ninja suits and plastic automatic weapons not needed.
Yeah, I found the video clip. I used to have a horse that liked an occasional pint of Guiness. And lemon drops.
9 ExPH2
Smart horse. I hope you treated him properly with the occassinal treat?
B.Woodman, I did, indeed. Guiness, with pretzels, and lemon drops for dessert.
Keep your head down, PH2!
You too, TSO!
@7 yep, appears to be a Marlin 336. Looks a trifle small for an 1895 or .444
Now THAT’S the Georgia I used to know and love!!
“We didn’t have no leader of it all, we just went all our separate ways and the people in Rhine they knew they were going to get that rascal,” Lowery said.
And when the job was done, the posse gathered around the ole’ campfire for some grub …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIsx6J6vKQ8
Toby and Willie … long version video story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1JOFhfoAD4
We don’t need no stinkin’ badges …
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdZKCh6RsU
Not so original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lj056ao6GE
@12 – NHSparky, explain?