Category: Feel Good Stories

  • Illinois Gets One Right

    We often give Illinois – and in particular, Chicago – grief for being a “shining example” of dystopia, foolishness, and corruption. But for once it looks like Illinois did something right.

    What, you ask? Well, they named a bridge on the Illinois Tollway.

    Nothing really new there, I guess.  Except this time they didn’t name the bridge after some famous athlete, entertainer, or local mayor.  Instead, they named the bridge after someone deserving the honor:   a Medal of Honor recipient.

    The man honored is Allen J. Lynch of Gurnee, IL. He received the MoH for heroism in action near My An, South Vietnam, on 15 December 1967.

    You can read his MoH citation here.  If you do, be prepared to be humbled – and awed.

     

  • Thursday feel good story

    Thursday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us our feel good story from Missouri;

    At about 4 a.m., a man forced his way through the front door of a home in the 1300 block of South McHenry Street in eastern Independence.

    “At some point there was a confrontation between him and the homeowner,” said Independence police spokesman Tom Gentry. “The homeowner had a weapon and shot the intruder.”

    The intruder fled and collapsed nearby, Gentry said, before a neighbor took him to a hospital. By the time police were notified, Gentry said, the suspect already was at a hospital. Police deployed officers to both the hospital and the home.

  • Wednesday morning feel good story

    Wednesday morning feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us links to our feel good stories this morning, the first is from Kansas;

    Officers were called to the the El Centinela building, which is just south of 21st street on Belle around 1:10 a.m. after the property owner, identified as Kent Lindemuth, told police that two people had broken into the building.

    Officials say Lindemuth fired one shot at one of the suspects as they ran towards the back of the building.

    Both suspects were later taken into custody by police.

    The next story comes from Tennessee;

    It happened along the 6500 block of Sevierville Pike. The homeowner told investigators he saw two men leaving his house with some of his property around 6:30 p.m.

    Deputies believed the homeowner shot at the suspects first, and one of suspects then returned fire before running off.

    A neighbor. Mike Hill. said he saw the suspects fleeing the scene in a car, and he said he even tried to cut them off. The suspects did get away.

    “I just heard a bunch of gunshots going off, probably sounded like 20 gunshots going off to me. I was wondering what the hell was going on, you know. Because that was unusual for that to be going off up here,” said Mike Hill.

  • Tuesday morning feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us our feel good story today, this time from Missouri where Kenneth Frye pulled his last caper;

    [Rick] Rogers says his girlfriend, Chelsea St. John, and daughter-in-law were inside the home at the time. All intruders were armed. ” I cant explain to you the feeling that that is,” says St. John.
    She says when they realized that the men were in the house, Rogers went upstairs to grab his gun. She followed close behind until Fry got a hold of her. ” He grabbed me by the back of my hair and pulled me back down and said “get on the floor, you know I will kill you.” And I went to the kitchen and was going to get on the floor and he didn’t even wait for me to get on the floor he took upstairs after Rick and that’s when Rick shot him,” says St. John. Rogers says he didn’t think twice. “I was able to get my gun first and shoot one of them. The other 3 heard my shot and left out the back door. “

  • Veteran with a gun in Chicago

    Denzel A. Mickiel discovered the hard way that you don’t get into a gun fight with a veteran. It happened in Chicago this weekend where there were a number of shootings, the preferred method of communication in that city, I guess. A woman leaving a party with an unnamed vet saw a drink on the hood of her car and asked the crowd to whom it belonged. Mickiel was angered when she removed the drink from her vehicle and went to get a gun according to the Chicago Tribune;

    When she removed it, Denzel A. Mickiel approached her, shouting obscenities and threatening her and her friends, according to Hain and court records.

    Mickiel, 22, went into the residence, returned with a gun and began firing at the group, she said.

    As Mickiel fired shots at the victims’ vehicle, the military member retrieved his gun and took cover near the vehicle’s front fender, according to Hain. Two unidentified males also shot at the group, she said.

    The service member fired two shots and struck Mickiel twice, she said.

    A 22-year-old woman in the group was injured by Mickiel in the shooting, sustaining gunshot wounds to the arm and back, according to court records and Hain.

    The four victims escaped the melee in two vehicles as two unidentified males continued to shoot at them, Hain said.

    The veteran also had one of the new concealed weapon permits, only recently authorized in Chicago.

    Thanks to BinhTuy66, Tman and Marine_7002 for the link.

  • Monday morning feel good story

    Monday morning feel good story

    Will sends us this morning’s feel good story, this time it’s from North Carolina;

    An employee told officers that a man walked into Tobacco Plus, 2017 Chapel Hill Road, at 7:23 a.m. armed with a long gun and demanded money.

    The man fled after the employee pulled out a gun, police said. The employee then fired shots, striking the back window of the suspect’s vehicle, police said. No one was injured.

    A short time later, officers found the vehicle on the 1500 block of Chapel Hill Road.

    Robert Miller, 53, of 1502 Chapel Hill Road, was arrested and charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon and assault by pointing a gun.

    Read more at http://www.wral.com/employee-pulls-gun-foils-durham-robbery/13787526/#6HP6qX1vPOtXKt6C.99

  • Sunday morning feel good story

    Sunday morning feel good story

    Ohio sends us a link to the story about Orlandous Brown, a wheelchair bound fellow from South Carolina who shot and killed an intruder who tried to burglarize his home;

    Latisha Vernon, a friend of Brown, called the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office at 12:35 a.m. Thursday to report a burglary in progress, according to a Sheriff’s Office report.

    When deputies arrived, Vernon and her daughter were in the driveway calling to them, the report says. The deputies moved them to a safe location and entered the house, authorities said.

    They found two men in the living room with gunshot wounds, according to the report.

    Boseman said the 26-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Brown was taken to the hospital where he went through surgery for non-life-threatening wounds, Boseman said.

  • Saturday morning feel good story

    Saturday morning feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us our feel good story this morning and this tie it’s from Virginia where a homeowner was forced to protect his home and family from an irate neighbor;

    The incident began shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday in the 18000 block of Keeneland Drive, Abingdon. Police report a man who lives nearby confronted a homeowner, tried to gain entry and provoked an altercation.

    When turned away, the man allegedly returned a few minutes later and knocked on the back door. The homeowner opened the door and the man reportedly tried to again to get inside the home. The homeowner fired shots and a bullet struck the intruder, according to police, inflicting non-life threatening injuries.

    “From the preliminary investigation, it appears the homeowner acted properly in defending himself and his residence from forced entry by the intruder,” Sheriff Fred Newman said in the release.

    Read more: Sheriff: Abingdon man ‘acted appropriately’ in shooting intruder | Kingsport Times-News http://www.timesnews.net/article/9078714/sheriff-abingdon-man-acted-appropriately-in-shooting-intruder#ixzz36XkUgxg7
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