Category: Feel Good Stories

Since the earlier Saturday feel good story actually happened on Tuesday, you get a bonus today along with some chuckles from Land O’Lakes, FL. It seems that two men tried to turn their lives around with someone else’s property, but I guess the initial investment in their start-up business wasn’t quite enough, so they took a fake gun to their first cold call visit;

The sheriff’s office said two men went into the cottage armed with a fake gun and tried to rob the people inside. Someone inside then pulled out a real gun and shot the suspects, deputies said.

Both of the injured men ran outside and collapsed on the sidewalk by the road.

A registered nurse, Jennifer Price, was driving by with her daughter and stopped to help.

“When I stopped, I said ‘Somebody needs to get that gun and move it, I don’t want to get shot,’” she said. “One of the boys that I went to had about four or five gunshot wounds and I just tried to help him as much as I could. The other fellow they moved off and he had several wounds to but he wasn’t conscious at the time.”

The article goes on to say that there were five people in the house at the time including a 2-year-old. Both of the ventilated entrepreneurs are in serious condition and probably looking forward to their well-earned retirement from the property-ownership-transfer business.

Top Kone sends us our feel good story for the start of the weekend from Cleveland. A woman was leaving her home with her kids when three men forced her back into her house, but her boyfriend was watching the scene unfold from his window…with his gun;

“They walked her out of the garage and when they got to the door, I shot,” Bridges said.

Bridges’ bullet hit one of the suspects. All three gunmen ran. The injured suspect was taken into custody at Euclid Hospital. The other two were stopped a few blocks away after police noticed they looked suspicious.

Fifth District Commander Wayne Drummond said they face charges of aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and felonious assault.

A local politician says the he wants to give Johnny Bridges a medal. He should – Johnny got three dangerous men off the streets and his neighborhood is marginally safer because of his actions.

Chief Tango sends today’s story from Erwin, North Carolina where two armed men tried to turn their lives around in the early morning hours today, From a WRAL link;

Ronald McDougald said his 22-year-old son and his nephew live in the house and were home early Friday with the nephew’s girlfriend and her 2-year-old child.

Two men armed with a gun kicked in the carport door and entered, McDougald said, and his his son fired at the intruders. One of the men was shot and killed, and the other fled the area.

I’m betting that if police followed that slick brown trail that the second man left, they’ll find him eventually, unless he ran all the way to California today.

Chief Tango sends us a story today from Hominy, Oklahoma where a ten-year-old girl answered her door when a teen was banging on it. The teen tried to force his way in the home but the mother slammed it in his face.

He then punched through the window on the door, so the woman said she woke her 17-year-old son and told him to get his gun.

Her son, who is a senior at Hominy High School, grabbed a 12-guage shotgun and fired as the other boy reached his hand through the broken glass and turned the doorknob to obtain entry.

A neighbor says the same person was sitting on her porch earlier. When she told him to leave, he started acting strangely, so she called 911. She said she was on the phone with dispatch when she heard gunfire next door.

So I guess we’ll never know if he was trying to turn his life around or just being a pest. Again the story isn’t that this happened, the story is that these stories happen every-damn-day, that every day Americans are protecting their homes and their families with gun with barely a mention from the media.

Chief Tango sends us a link to today’s feel good story from Oklahoma. The homeowner called the police when he heard someone break into his house;

“The homeowner advised dispatch, who was still on with 911, that he had just shot the suspect who had broken the back door,” said Owasso Police Capt. Tracy Townsend.

Police say [44-year-old Timothy] Wall was shot in the thigh and taken to St. John Hospital in Tulsa.

Neighbors say Wall suffers from a mental condition, but they understand the homeowner had to do something to protect himself and his family.

“At one point is, you’ve got to understand the guy [is] delusional there and doesn’t understand what he was doing, but on the other side you’ve got to understand that the homeowner–you don’t know what the guy is seeing, so he had to defend himself there, and his wife, at the time,” said neighbor Eric Hamblin.

Chief Tango sends us a link to today’s feel good story from Huntsville Alabama, where Hank, Dale and Bill were standing in their yard when three other men, trying to turn their lives around, drove up and flashed guns at the trio in an attempt to rob them;

Shots rang out among both groups.

One of the robbers was shot several times and was dead on the scene, according to police. Witnesses said he was in his 20s. One of the robbery victims was shot in the leg. HEMSI took the victim to the hospital. The victim is expected to recover.

Officers collected three guns at the scene. They are also questioning those involved. No arrests have been made yet.

Chief Tango sends us a link to today’s feel good story from Beaumont, TX;

A man and woman at home in the 4300 block of Dallas Avenue heard someone at the front door. The man retrieved his gun before opening the door.

A man, who looked to be 25 years old, appeared at the front door and asked for some gasoline. The homeowner stepped outside to speak with the man when a second man in a Halloween-type mask attacked him, the release stated.

The homeowner shot the masked man three times, once in the head. The other man fled on foot.

The police found another gun and a BB-gun at the scene, so I guess the youngsters were serious about turning their lives around.

Chief Tango sends us today’s feel good story from Jackson, Mississippi when a homeowner heard his dog barking and went outside to find someone burglarizing his car;

The owner of a home in the 1700 block of Tanglewood Cove told police he heard a noise about 6 a.m. and went outside to discover that a man had broken into his car. The homeowner opened fire, shooting 20-year-old Quardious Thomas, who was still inside the car, police said. Thomas died at a local hospital, police said.

Police haven’t released the name of the homeowner, but said he will not be charged. Mississippi’s Castle Doctrine allows the use of deadly force to defend against a felony being committed against oneself, another person, or one’s home.

Apparently, young Quardious who was busy turning his life around, broke into six other cars in the neighborhood that night and there had been more than 30 break-ins this year so far. This might put a cork in that stuff.

The video news report is at the link.