{"id":81655,"date":"2018-09-07T06:31:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81655"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:38","slug":"friday-morning-feel-good-stories-188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81655","title":{"rendered":"Friday morning feel good stories."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wandtv.com\/story\/39040626\/woman-chases-away-home-intruder-with-a-gun\">Lincoln, IL<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman chased an intruder out of her home by firing a gun when he broke in.\u00a0\u00a0Lincoln police are searching for the suspect who damaged a vehicle and threw a brick through the front window of a home in the 1200 block of Short 11th St. early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect tried to force the door open to the house.\u00a0\u00a0The female homeowner who was legally armed with a pistol yelled to the person that she had a gun.<\/p>\n<p>The person continued to try and get in.\u00a0\u00a0The woman fired the gun to stop the person from getting inside.\u00a0\u00a0Officers said there is no indication the suspect was wounded. The fled on foot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/4430880\/suspected-thief-in-colorado-drops-gun-loses-pants-in-botched-robbery\/\">Denver, CO<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stream\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"story story-detail article-detail\">\n<article>\n<h1 class=\"story-h gn-speakable-title\">Suspected thief in Colorado drops gun, loses pants in botched robbery<\/h1>\n<div class=\"fe-embed-container\">\n<div id=\"video_4431240_wrapper\" class=\"sticky-wrapper restored\">\n<div class=\"stickyiframe-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"video_4431240\" class=\"inline-video\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/embed\/4431240\/#autoplay&amp;stickyiframe=video_4431240&amp;mute\" width=\"100%\" height=\"250px\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-displayinline-content=\"\" data-autosize=\"670\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fe-embed-caption\">A suspect was left running from an e-cigarette shop in Colorado with his pants falling down after what police are calling a botched robbery.\u00a0 Security camera footage shows a man walking into the store on Sept. 2 and attempting to take out what police later said was a replica handgun. But it ends up flying over the counter instead.\u00a0 \u201cThe BB gun, with the orange tip removed, fell onto the floor where the clerk grabs it,\u201d Aurora police said in a Facebook post.<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-txt\">\n<div class=\"story-ad\">\n<section id=\"div-gpt-gnca-ads-6872-300250-2\" class=\"ad is-loaded\" data-google-query-id=\"CLSP3Knip90CFVS5Twod_ZIOcA\" data-load-time=\"1536284657197\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6872\/shaw.globalnews.ca\/colorado-botched-robbery\/4430880\/sean-previl_4__container__\">Video captures the surprise on the suspect\u2019s face as the gun makes its way over the counter. The suspect attempts to climb over the counter, before appearing to change his mind. He runs back out the door. He is then seen losing his pants before going off screen. The clerk then goes to the door and appears to lock it.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>Police released the video in hopes of identifying the suspect and arresting him.\u00a0\u00a0The owner of the store\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/09\/04\/aurora-e-cigarette-store-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the Denver Post<\/a>\u00a0he was surprised by the footage.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t want to downplay the seriousness of an armed robbery, but the guy really does belong in the \u2018world\u2019s dumbest criminals,&#8217;\u201d Chris Burgess said. \u201cHe needs to find a new career.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0He added store policy is to give suspected armed robbers \u201cwhatever they want.\u201d He said in this situation, the clerk reacted appropriately.\u00a0\u00a0Officers obtained the replica gun in question and say they\u2019re hoping to obtain fingerprints from it to help in the investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wells\">\n<aside class=\"top-sidebar\">\n<section class=\"gnca_empty_weatherbug\">\n<div class=\"local-weather clearfix \"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Lincoln, IL A woman chased an intruder out of her home by firing a gun &hellip; <a title=\"Friday morning feel good stories.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81655\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday morning feel good stories.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":40242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81655","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\/81655","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81655\/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=81655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}