Category: Feel Good Stories

Green Thumb sends us a link to this morning’s feel good story – it’s a little skimpy on details but it looks like it happened in Missoula, Montana and a 77-year-old man shot a 22-year-old man in the chest when the younger man tried to turn his life around with the older man’s stuff;

Missoula Police say the homeowner called 9-1-1 just before 2 a.m. to report he had shot an intruder.

Officers arrived on scene and say they found a 22-year-old man had been shot once in the torso inside the home, which is in the downtown Missoula area.

Authorities say in a news release that the man was taken to St. Patrick Hospital, where he is now listed in serious condition.

So, enjoy your coffee this morning knowing that armed American citizens are on the job.

Ex-PH2 sends us a link to today’s feel good story about a pregnant Texas woman who was reluctant to let her husband have a gun in their house, but has had a “come to Jesus moment” on the issue after two drug-addled men tried to break into her home when she was alone;

“By myself with 911 on one hand and the gun on the other and I’m just a nervous wreck. I don’t know what to do …I yelled and I told the 911 ‘Oh my gosh, he broke in!’”

Alex said she’s never felt comfortable with the idea of using a gun.

Still, her husband insisted on showing her how to use one just a few months ago.

“Nervous…It took me a very long time to pull the trigger and he said, ‘when you’re in a situation like that- you’re not going to think twice,’” recalled Alex.

She said that exactly what happened.

Once the men realized Alex was armed and ready to defend her home, they ran back towards their truck.

“The adrenaline kicked in and I just shot at the vehicle,” she said.

Alex aimed at the vehicle to scare off the burglars also hoping an identifying mark that would help police track it down.

She adds her intentions were not to shoot the men.

AmyJ sends us a link to today’s feel good story. As with many of these stories lately, this one comes from Houston. I guess the criminals aren’t learning their lessons from the news down there. But, this guy was at the RedBox renting movies when two gentlement decided to turn their lives around with his car and his phone;

The suspects got into his car and started backing out. That’s when police say the car’s owner pulled his gun and started shooting at the carjackers.

“He shot the passenger possibly two to three times. He was able to get out the passenger side and run away,” said Sgt. Robert Torres with the Houston Police Department. “The driver was also shot. He tried to climb out the passenger side door, but he did not survive his injuries.”

Police say the passenger and a third suspect who was driving the getaway car are still on the run. Officers will be checking area hospitals to see if anybody turns up with gunshot wounds.

Dave sends us today’s feel good story from Houston about a homeowner who had to defend his family from a naked burglar he discovered climbing in his window;

According to the Houston Police Department, the male suspect was banging on the front door and broke through a window at a home located in the 700 block of Marjorie.

After several verbal warnings, the resident inside the home pulled a gun and squeezed off several shots.

“After he broke the dude’s window, you know trying to unlock it… you got kids, wife, you know, he said he didn’t want to kill him so he shot him in the arm,” a neighbor said.

Ex-PH2 sends us a link to this morning’s feel good story about an off-duty transit cop in Chicago who tried to ignore her doorbell while it was ringing at 9:30 in the morning and she was trying to catch up on her sleep. The doorbell was followed by the noise of someone turning their life around by crashing through her window, so she grabbed her duty weapon and went to investigate;

“She walks down the stairs and hears an individual ransacking the bedroom on the first floor. She says, “Police officer! Put your hands up!” Instead, he lunges at her. The suspect is hit several times,” said Pat Camdem, spokesman, Fraternal Order of Police.

After police arrived, the teenager was taken to Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn. He’s expected to survive.

“If he went in the way they said he did, in the window, he got what he deserved. That’s all I can say. She did what was best for her,” said Pat Williams, neighbor.

“He looked young, yeah. Like a baby. Like he should have been in school somewhere,” said Campbell.

The officer, a mother of two in her late 40s, was not seriously injured. Neighbors say this is the second time her home has been broken into in about the last year and a half.

OIF ’06-’07-’08 sends us a link to our Thursday feel good story from Kansas City. A man heard a crash in his garage late one night, so he grabbed his shotgun and ran down to his garage and encountered a man with pliers and a screwdriver who had broken in his home. The two grappled around on the floor;

At one point, the stranger pinned the homeowner on his back and tugged at the shotgun. But the homeowner wouldn’t let go.

The stranger then told the homeowner, “I need your car. The police are after me!”

The stranger grabbed keys from the kitchen counter, ran into the garage and got into a vehicle. When the stranger reached into his pocket, the homeowner feared he was pulling a gun. The homeowner fired twice, killing the man in the driver’s seat of the vehicle. The driver’s door remained open.

Apparently, the man whose life has been turned around had been a broad crime spree in the neighborhood and was fleeing the police when he broke into the garage.

MK75Gunner sends us our feel good story for today which comes from Charlottesville, Virginia. Two armed gentlemen hoping to turn their lives around by taking the property of two University of Virginia students, instead of a nice, civilized armed robbery, the two gents got their asses stomped;

Police say the suspects, both from Charlottesville, had to be taken to the hospital before going to jail Tuesday night.

The robbery happened along the 2300 block of Fontaine Avenue. When police arrived on the scene, they found two University of Virginia students had beaten up the suspects and detained them.

Police say they do not encourage victims to take matters into their own hands.

You’ll want to see the results of this particular beat down in the video;

In another link sent to us by Mordechai, from New Mexico, a homeowner was napping when he heard someone break into his house;

The resident told police he went in a bathroom and called 911.

The resident said he then confronted the intruder and fired two shots at him with a handgun. It’s unclear how many times the intruder was hit, Drobik said.

The homeowner was “shaken up and stressed,” but not injured, APD Sgt. Trish Hoffman said at the scene.

The resident was being interviewed by investigators, and had not been charged with a crime, Drobik said.

CDR D sends us today’s feel good story, this time it happened in Texas when an 18-year-old man heard noises in his house and grabbed a shotgun before he investigated;

When the man spotted the two suspects in his home he shot both of them in the abdomen.

One suspect was taken by ambulance to San Jacinto Hospital where he died. Investigators described him as a 40-year-old man who is a suspect in several other burglaries. The second suspect got away from the scene and somehow got to a hospital where he was arrested. At last check he was listed in critical condition at Memorial Hermann.

A neighbor tells FOX 26 that the 18 year old lives in the home by himself and he was a victim of a home burglary a month ago.

The vehicle that the two took to the scene of their life-changing event matches the description of a vehicle seen at another burglary earlier in the evening.