Category: Feel Good Stories

Slim pickins this morning, but there’s the story, from San Antonio, Texas of the fellow who dresses like Jesus for the San Antonio Spurs’ home games, known as Spurs Jesus, whose real name is Cordero Maldonado. It seems that Cordero was washing his Jesus suit when he heard someone breaking into his home. He lit out after the perpetrator and caught up to him on the Riverwalk, tackled the fellow and held him until police arrived.

In Las Cruces, New Mexico, five teenagers staged a home invasion on the wrong mobile home. They opened fire on the home and a car from the street, forced the door to the home open and shot the occupant in the foot before they realized that they had the wrong home and then left. The feel good part comes when they shot and killed one of their own in their excitement, so one was DRT and the other four, currently in custody, are all facing murder charges. Five criminals off the street in a matter of minutes.

Sgt K sends us a link to a story in St. Paul, Minnesota, about what appears to be a robbery that went right (no not wrong, right). Police are still sorting out the details, but it looks like two someones tried to rob someone else and by the time police arrived, one of the first two someones was DRT.

In Detroit, Michigan, a 79-year-old awoke to the sight of his neighbor stealing his television. Ron Henrick confronted the man with his shotgun, but the man threw a bicycle at Ron and un-assed the AO. Ron says that was going to “shoot his ass”, but “it would’ve made a hell of a mess with a 12-gauge”.

Cops caught up to the neighbor who is now cooling his heels in the hoosegow. Ron is worried the guy might come back and steal his 1933 Plymouth coup, though, claiming that Marilyn Monroe and Elvis have both ridden in the car that he has owned for almost 60 years.

In Conyers, Georgia, 17-year-old Laurel Carithers saw an opportunity to turn her life around with the property of an over-the-road trucker while he was out-of-town. Unfortunately for the four, the trucker’s brother was in his home with his girlfriend and a baby. When the thieves kicked in his bedroom door, he leaped from his bed and grabbed a gun. The thieves un-assed the AO and fired at the home as they left. The brother punctuated the encounter with his own return fire. Young Laurel and her three friends are all cooling their heels in the hoosegow.

In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 34-year-old Jamil A. Salahuddin thought that him and his friend dressed as cops was a good way to break into other people’s homes and get away with it. It was good for his friend who seems to have left the scene at a high rate of speed, but Jamil was DRT when the homeowner broke free from his bonds and used Jamil’s own gun to shoot him in the head a few times.

In Warren, Ohio, 18-year-old Jacob Rapczak, the slowest burglar in the world was captured when a homeowner threw back his curtains and found the teen looking back at him. Jacob moved so slowly that the homeowner had time to run outside and capture him without a gun. Jacob is now cooling his slow feet in the local hoosegow.

In Fort Walton Beach, Florida, 27-year old Christopher Donaldson tried to solicit some “fruit” (weed) from a homeowner who then locked Donaldson out of his house. Donaldson tried to force his way in the home, but the homeowner shot through the door several times and Donaldson was DOT a few days later in the hospital.

In Sparta, New Jersey, two teens were just looking for their friend’s house when they accidentally knocked on a door of an off-duty policeman, late at night in a quiet neighborhood where recently there had coincidentally been a burglary recently.

For some odd reason, the off-duty policeman wasn’t particularly happy that strangers were knocking on his door late at night and began cussing at the two innocent teens. they ran to get back in their car and leave with the cop hot on their tails. For some reason, when they tried to run him down with their car, he began busting caps in their direction. So when other cops responded to their 9-1-1 call to report the guy who was shooting at them, somehow, they ended up in jail along with their weak-ass story.

In Lufkin, Texas, poor Jose Cazares went to a lady’s house to talk to her, even though he didn’t speak English well enough to talk to police officers without an interpreter. Apparently, breaking down a glass door means something different in Spanish than it does in English, because the woman misunderstood and shot Jose in the foot. The translator must’ve not understood either, because poor Jose was arrested in his hospital bed for criminal trespass and criminal mischief.

In Iredell County, North Carolina, a home invader tried to turn his life around in someone else’s home. There was a struggle and shots fired and the intruder un-assed the AO.

Yesterday, we talked about the fellow in South Bend who was made DRT by a 73-year-old. It turns out that the DRT was a violence counselor by the name of Curtis William Trent who had been a felon, but he turned his life around and founded Project TRUCE, an anti-violence group, then he turned his life around again and broke into the old man’s home. Then the old man turned Trent’s life around again for him.

In Rio Rancho, New Mexico, a burglar was shot by someone, but the police aren’t saying who shot him, or telling the deatils of the story, but we can revel in the moment, can’t we?

In DeKalb County, Georgia, Joshua Hamadi was doing what he does – booting illegally-parked trucks – when a couple of fellows approached him in a dark parking lot and drew their guns on him. Joshua shot first and wounded one of the thugs in his hip while the other took off in his stolen Kia.

In Bradley County, Tennessee an off-duty deputy encountered a fellow on her property, so she started asking him questions, he responded by attempting to choke and smother her. She tried to Taser him, but hen that didn’t work, she made him DRT.

In Savannah, Georgia, Nathaniel Eugene Holsey tried to turn his life around with someone else’s property, when the owner was awoken by Holsey and his friend and drilled young Holsey who went to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries while police look for his pal.

In South Bend, Indiana, a young man tried to turn his life around, but a 73-year-old man enforced the first rule of being old; we can’t fight back so we shoot. The younger man was DRT, according to police.

Bobo and Amy send us a link from Houston, Texas where astor Benny Holmes encountered and intruder in his church at 6AM so he shot Lee Marvin Blue in the shoulder.

Chief Tango sends us some more links, the first it from Steelton, Pennsylvania, two fellows were interrupted in the act of turning their lives around by the couple who lived there. They tied up the rude pair, but not well enough. The man broke free and shot one fellow several times and the other escaped. But the perforated man was DRT.

In Greenville, South Carolina, three enterprising youths are cooling their heels in the hoosegow after a firefight with a homeowner in which no one was injured.

In Morgan County, Tennessee, two folks trying to turn their lives around forgot the first rule of home invasion; old people can’t fight, so we just shoot. They tried to rob the house of an armed 79-year-old. The result of that enterprise was that both are in critical condition in the hospital while the police make long term arrangements for them when they recover.

In Detroit, Michigan, Joe Biden’s method for avoiding being a victim of criminals seemed to work for a woman there this past weekend. When two men threw a brick through her window, she answered with a blast from her shotgun through her ceiling and the lucky criminals un-assed the AO and no one was injured or anything;

This one comes from Chief Tango and it happened in Amarillo, Texas. While two students were settling a score, thirty or so folks gathered to watch. One of the people was 31-year-old Ruben Israel Sanchez who stabbed some random kid in the back while they were watching the two fight. So he was arrested. Then, a group of people went to the home of one of the scrappers and tried to force their way into the home, for some reason, but they were forced back out into the yard. One of the residents took his gun outside and when the visitors tried to enter again, he shot two of them effectively ending the siege. The two wounded folks had relatively superficial wounds.

If you need a DRT story today, we have to travel to South Africa where three armed gents in balaclavas broke into a woman’s bedroom and she pulled her handgun from beneath her pillow and perforated two of them. One was DRT in the bedroom and the other went outside and became DOT. The third fellow is still on the lam.

Here’s one from Cincinnati, Ohio, where Thomas McCary was arguing with a woman. When her brother, Patrick Ewing approached the arguing pair, McCary pulled out a .38 and started busting caps at Ewing, without hitting him. Ewing, who had a concealed carry permit, returned fire, striking McCary who limped back into his apartment and came back out like John Wayne with a gun in each hand, blazing away at Ewing, his sister and her infant son. Ewing returned fire and McCary scampered back into his apartment and then to the hospital. His next stop will be the local hoosegow.

This morning, we start off with a jewelry store heist in Houston, Texas where a young man went shopping for high-end booty with which he could turn his life around. Instead, he found a less than cooperative clerk who dispensed some hi-velocity jewelry to his now-empty noggin. It is hard to tell from the story if he was DRT or DOT, though. I’m guessing that he was dead right there.

Outside of Houston, at a convenience store, an off-duty police officer found himself in the middle of a robbery. When he told the two gentlemen to “Freeze!”, they didn’t and a gunfight ensued. The two fellows made good their escape, but officers found their vehicle nearby and stained with blood. No one else was injured despite the fact that the store was pretty busy as you can see in this video. The cameraman was ducking and running, though, so it’s not as graphic as you might hope;