{"id":69663,"date":"2017-01-05T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69663"},"modified":"2017-01-04T15:41:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:41:20","slug":"thursday-morning-feel-good-stories-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69663","title":{"rendered":"Thursday morning feel good stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilted Willy sends a link to the story of a 74-year-old woman in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news965.com\/news\/news\/crime-law\/74-year-old-woman-shoots-pistol-home-intruder\/ntTMg\/\">Texarkana, Texas<\/a> who was watching the news when an intruder broke into her home. She busted caps on him as he made good his escape. &#8220;I tried to kill him,&#8221; [Rebbie] Roberson told KLSA. &#8220;Anybody break in on me, I&#8217;m going to kill them. He&#8217;s going to kill me or I&#8217;m going to kill him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A homeowner in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/articles\/beaumont-822303-jan-break.html\">Beaumont,Texas<\/a> fired at intruders who forced their way into his home. Police, however, haven&#8217;t said if anyone was injured.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyitem.com\/news\/shot-fired-at-machete-wielding-man\/article_589cf02a-d280-11e6-ad19-27d42a4d08ec.html\">Milton, Pennsylvania<\/a>, a homeowner fired at a man trying to hack his way into the home with a machete. Police say that Gary Gonzalez, 54, wasn&#8217;t injured in the gunfire, but he was stopped from hacking at the door knob.<\/p>\n<p>A homeowner in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc15.com\/news\/crime\/update-arrest-made-as-homeowner-shoots-suspects-attempting-to-rob-his-phoenix-home\">Phoenix, Arizona<\/a> defended his home from three criminals who tried to force their way into the home. 19-year-old suspect Davont\u2019e Williams was pronounced DRT (dead right there) and 18-year-old suspect Christopher Xavier Jackson was hospitalized for a gunshot wound. Police are still looking for the third man.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Wallace, a homeowner and a former police lieutenant in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/top-stories\/3-in-custody-following-multiple-break-ins-in-southaven\/480787461\">Memphis, Tennessee<\/a> fired a warning shot to stop four car burglars from stealing from his car. He held one of the thieves at gun point until police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>A man exiting a gas station was accosted by two thieves in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesville.com\/news\/statesville-police-seeking-man-who-shot-at-assailants\/article_14b95d5a-d297-11e6-87a6-37818c1f701f.html\">Statesville, North Carolina<\/a>. The  victim got to his car and drew his handgun from the vehicle and shot at the thieves. No one was injured in the exchange and the thieves got away, but police want to talk to the intended victim. Rotsaruck, boys.<\/p>\n<p>Two thieves announced a robbery in a <a href=\"http:\/\/wgntv.com\/2017\/01\/03\/store-clerk-shoots-two-would-be-robbers\/\">Chicago, Illinois<\/a> business. A clerk wrestled the firearm from the criminals and shot one in the torso, the other in the leg, effectively ending the robbery.<\/p>\n<p>A homeowner in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/homeowner-will-not-face-charges-after-shooting-intruder-in-his-home-deputies-say\/8562189\">Pickens County, South Carolina<\/a> returned home to find Justin Smith stealing his guns. The homeowner was able to take one of the guns from Smith and shot him repeatedly. Smith was taken to the hospital where he was declared DOT (dead over there).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilted Willy sends a link to the story of a 74-year-old woman in Texarkana, Texas who &hellip; <a title=\"Thursday morning feel good stories\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69663\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday morning feel good stories<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}