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(Seattle Times) Hero Mom tired of being victimized catches a bunch of hoodlums on her lawn, and she "just snapped". Hilarity ensues   (seattletimes.nwsource.com) divider line 321
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real shaman [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 08:40:13 AM  
Excellent.....

 
eddyatwork [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 08:52:30 AM  
Awesome. I notice though that they are very careful not to mention the race of the suspects. I have an idea that they are not light skinned. I also notice that the cops disapprove of the idea of people defending themselves.

 
real shaman [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 09:08:22 AM  
eddyatwork: I also notice that the cops disapprove of the idea of people defending themselves.

Creates much more work for them. If they hadn't caught the criminals, there would have been 1 piece of paper to fill out.....

Now, there is untold amounts of paperwork and actual real work to be done. cops hate that shiat.

 
lcmino 2008-05-24 09:14:08 AM  
real shaman: Creates much more work for them. If they hadn't caught the criminals, there would have been 1 piece of paper to fill out.....

Now, there is untold amounts of paperwork and actual real work to be done. cops hate that shiat.


As a stupid college student, this laziness has saved me from countless fines and a few nights in jail, don't knock it.

 
st.theresa 2008-05-24 09:14:42 AM  
eddyatwork: Awesome. I notice though that they are very careful not to mention the race of the suspects. I have an idea that they are not light skinned. I also notice that the cops disapprove of the idea of people defending themselves.

They approved of the video, and that's one hell of a defense.

 
Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 09:25:47 AM  
eddyatwork: I also notice that the cops disapprove of the idea of people defending themselves.

Um, no. The cops disapprove of people needlessly risking their lives to save a few dollars worth of easily replaced property. It turned out well in this case, which is good. It doesn't always turn out that way. I know that Fark is populated by ultra deadly secret agent gun-wielding lethal killers who regularly beat down mobs for glancing at them in a disrespectful way, but for most people, putting your life on the line to save a bike--well, that might not always be the best course of action.

 
eddyatwork [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 09:34:20 AM  
Pocket Ninja: The cops disapprove of people needlessly risking their lives to save a few dollars worth of easily replaced property.

Easy for someone who makes a lot of money to say. When you live on 15k a year, property is not easily replaceable. Fark the thieves. Exterminate them all!

 
xtex 2008-05-24 09:35:18 AM  
I would have just run over the little fark on the bike...

 
xtex 2008-05-24 09:36:18 AM  
Oh.. and I'd move, because that sounds like a shiatty neighborhood. If you have to install security cameras to protect your stuff, it's time to move.

 
Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 09:39:27 AM  
eddyatwork: Easy for someone who makes a lot of money to say. When you live on 15k a year, property is not easily replaceable. Fark the thieves. Exterminate them all!

That's fine. I'm not going to debate the point. Hell, I don't like thieves, either. But in the end, you can get more property or possibly recover what was stolen. You only get only life. I certainly wouldn't want to die for something I can freely purchase in any number of stores.

 
kruuth [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 09:44:06 AM  
THis is Seattle. Kind of like oregon, where people can't really defend themselves against anything.

 
Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 09:47:43 AM  
(and yes, that should have been "you only get one life." meh.)

 
Kome [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 09:56:07 AM  
"As soon as police showed them the video where you can see them plotting and see their faces, they started singing like canaries," Goldmeier said.

Hahahahahaha. You don't hear that often these days. I give her a +1

 
dstanley 2008-05-24 10:05:17 AM  
xtex: I would have just run over the little fark on the bike...

I'm good with that.

 
Hagbardr [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 10:07:30 AM  
xtex: I would have just run over the little fark on the bike...

Why would she want to fark up her own bike?

 
AliasUndercover 2008-05-24 10:07:46 AM  
Mom talks like a film noir detective. I like that.

 
epyonyx 2008-05-24 10:08:27 AM  
Pocket Ninja: Um, no. The cops disapprove of people needlessly risking their lives to save a few dollars worth of easily replaced property. It turned out well in this case, which is good. It doesn't always turn out that way. I know that Fark is populated by ultra deadly secret agent gun-wielding lethal killers who regularly beat down mobs for glancing at them in a disrespectful way, but for most people, putting your life on the line to save a bike--well, that might not always be the best course of action.

Who snitched on me? I need to show them my ultra deadly secret agent gun-wielding lethal killer skills.

/you sir added to my favorites.

 
Gulper Eel [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 10:09:31 AM  
Hilarity Recidivism ensues

FTFY. Because, as was said...

kruuth: THis is Seattle. Kind of like oregon, where people can't really defend themselves against anything.

Darwin has neglected the northwest for too long.

 
Rychan 2008-05-24 10:09:32 AM  
Could have used more hitting, but a good story none the less.

 
Dirtball 2008-05-24 10:14:21 AM  
eddyatwork: I have an idea that they are not light skinned.

Wow eddy I never figured you for a racist. A moron maybe, but never a race hater.

 
Josu 2008-05-24 10:14:26 AM  
Makes me feel lucky to live in the neighborhood I do.

 
fuzzwell [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 10:14:45 AM  
eddyatwork: Pocket Ninja: The cops disapprove of people needlessly risking their lives to save a few dollars worth of easily replaced property.

Easy for someone who makes a lot of money to say. When you live on 15k a year, property is not easily replaceable. Fark the thieves. Exterminate them all!




Dude, who shat in your cereal this morning?

 
jafiwam 2008-05-24 10:15:01 AM  
I see no problem with what she did. She didn't hurt them, and the lazy po-po has to do some work for once.

Start cutting fingers and toes off the folks doing minor shiat in their teens, and pretty soon all career criminals would disappear from the country completely. Every person I know who has gone on to make bigger crimes later in life, went through the system doing minor stuff years before.

There's 6.5 billion people on the planet, who gives a fark if a few starve to death because they are too dumb to stop stealing shiat?

 
Enrico Pallazzo 2008-05-24 10:15:11 AM  
Pocket Ninja: eddyatwork: Easy for someone who makes a lot of money to say. When you live on 15k a year, property is not easily replaceable. Fark the thieves. Exterminate them all!

That's fine. I'm not going to debate the point. Hell, I don't like thieves, either. But in the end, you can get more property or possibly recover what was stolen. You only get only life. I certainly wouldn't want to die for something I can freely purchase in any number of stores. just steal from someone else.


much better

/joking
//agree with you 100%

 
certifiedMasshole 2008-05-24 10:16:02 AM  
lcmino: real shaman: Creates much more work for them. If they hadn't caught the criminals, there would have been 1 piece of paper to fill out.....

Now, there is untold amounts of paperwork and actual real work to be done. cops hate that shiat.

As a stupid college student, this laziness has saved me from countless fines and a few nights in jail, don't knock it.


Amen.
Ramen.

 
Silly_Sot 2008-05-24 10:16:44 AM  
ACLU organizing rallies against homeowner in 3, 2,

 
dude3129 2008-05-24 10:16:49 AM  
My initial impression from the headline was that she had shot and killed the little bastards.

/very disappointed

 
Jisus the Druid 2008-05-24 10:17:52 AM  
I thought Seattle was a safe place. I am going to be over there a month this summer, any recomendations on where NOT to go?

 
mrswelborne 2008-05-24 10:19:40 AM  
Rule #1: Close garage door.

Rule #2: If you can't remember #1, remember to deflate all bicycle tires before putting in garage.

Last winter there was a rash of snow blower thefts when home owners left the garage door open whilst they went to purchase gasoline for said machine.

Have to remember rule #1.

 
Chester the Snake 2008-05-24 10:20:13 AM  
Hagbardr: xtex: I would have just run over the little fark on the bike...

Why would she want to fark up her own bike?


And you know, after all of her effort, those bastards are probably going to get off easy.

 
illucid [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 10:21:54 AM  
Jisus the Druid: I thought Seattle was a safe place. I am going to be over there a month this summer, any recomendations on where NOT to go?

Don't go into that woman's garage. She has video surveillance.

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 10:22:05 AM  
eddyatwork: Awesome. I notice though that they are very careful not to mention the race of the suspects. I have an idea that they are not light skinned. I also notice that the cops disapprove of the idea of people defending themselves.

Okay, Nazi asshole.

I guess those two white-trash scumbags who were caught stealing my friend's car last year were honorary black people.

 
fredklein 2008-05-24 10:22:35 AM  
"We do not encourage people to chase after burglary suspects," said Seattle police spokeswoman Renee Witt.

When asked why, she responded "Because if people deal with the problem of crime themselves, we police will be unnecessary, and we'll lose our jobs. Besides", she added, "it makes more paperwork for us if the theives are caught."

 
epyonyx 2008-05-24 10:22:52 AM  
Jisus the Druid: I thought Seattle was a safe place. I am going to be over there a month this summer, any recomendations on where NOT to go?

South Seattle-Renton, Tukwila, Seatac, and Burien. Anything south of I-90. Bellevue, Kirkland, and Seattle are fine. Avoid taking the 520 if you can. Just be smart around Pike's Place because there are pickpockets there so use common sense (ie hand in pockets with valuables).

 
Dancin_In_Anson [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 10:23:03 AM  
Would have been better had she beaten them within inces of their lives.

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 10:23:54 AM  
eddyatwork: Pocket Ninja: The cops disapprove of people needlessly risking their lives to save a few dollars worth of easily replaced property.

Easy for someone who makes a lot of money to say. When you live on 15k a year, property is not easily replaceable. Fark the thieves. Exterminate them all!


Only the black ones, though, right Forest?

 
LocalCynic 2008-05-24 10:24:30 AM  
Yeah, insane people beating the crap of of others is "cool."

Actually, it's not.

Quit celebrating faux heroes.

 
Constance Velocity 2008-05-24 10:24:59 AM  
xtex: Oh.. and I'd move, because that sounds like a shiatty neighborhood. If you have to install security cameras to protect your stuff, it's time to move.

The problem with this area is that on the east edge is Lake Washington and on the west edge is Martin Luther King Way, so you have bazillion-dollar houses on the lake (Kurt Cobain lived there) and within only about 10 blocks it transitions into, well, the OTHER kind of neighborhood.

The only way the Richies can get to their houses is to drive through the ghetto.

 
cynicalbastard 2008-05-24 10:25:03 AM  
I suspect had she snapped with a Model 1911 handy, the state would also have saved a fortune in future welfare payouts.

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 10:25:16 AM  
LocalCynic: Yeah, insane people beating the crap of of others is "cool."

Actually, it's not.

Quit celebrating faux heroes.


Way to RTFA there.

 
LocalCynic 2008-05-24 10:25:28 AM  
eddyatwork: I also notice that the cops disapprove of the idea of people defending themselves.

Trying to beat up a bunch of people when you're mad isn't "self defense." It's retribution. Quit with your Internet Tough Guy act.

 
blazemongr 2008-05-24 10:25:32 AM  
Marla Singer's Laundry: Only the black ones, though, right Forest?

Of course; white thieves are easier to rehabilitate because everybody assumes they were just the product of a bad environment.

 
blazemongr 2008-05-24 10:26:19 AM  
LocalCynic: Trying to beat up a bunch of people when you're mad isn't "self defense." It's retribution.

Um. She didn't do either one of those, actually.

 
Constance Velocity 2008-05-24 10:26:28 AM  
Gulper Eel: Hilarity Recidivism ensues

FTFY. Because, as was said...

kruuth: THis is Seattle. Kind of like oregon, where people can't really defend themselves against anything.

Darwin has neglected the northwest for too long.


Hear hear. Bring him on. He can stay at my house.

 
LocalCynic 2008-05-24 10:27:17 AM  
mrswelborne: Last winter there was a rash of snow blower thefts when home owners left the garage door open whilst they went to purchase gasoline for said machine.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of those people left their garage doors open as a pretense to shoot burglars. Some people just lust for that opportunity.

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2008-05-24 10:27:20 AM  
LocalCynic: eddyatwork: I also notice that the cops disapprove of the idea of people defending themselves.

Trying to beat up a bunch of people when you're mad isn't "self defense." It's retribution. Quit with your Internet Tough Guy act.




Spoiler alert:
NO ONE GOT BEAT UP.

Now go read.

 
mrswelborne 2008-05-24 10:27:35 AM  
eddyatwork: Awesome. I notice though that they are very careful not to mention the race of the suspects. I have an idea that they are not light skinned. I also notice that the cops disapprove of the idea of people defending themselves.

Eddyatwork:

Don't you know?? Journalists ONLY mention a persons color when they HAVE color.
Not to troll here, but do you seriously think that ALL crimes are committed by someone of color? If so, you're an imbecile. (look it up)

 
Constance Velocity 2008-05-24 10:27:36 AM  
certifiedMasshole: lcmino: real shaman: ...

As a stupid college student, this laziness has saved me from countless fines and a few nights in jail, don't knock it.

Amen.
Ramen.


/LOL

 
LocalCynic 2008-05-24 10:28:51 AM  
Marla Singer's Laundry: Spoiler alert:
NO ONE GOT BEAT UP.

Now go read.


You're right. She tried to run them over with her car. What a cool lady. Oh, wait, she's batshiat insane, and should be charged for her actions.

 
Constance Velocity 2008-05-24 10:28:52 AM  
Jisus the Druid: I thought Seattle was a safe place. I am going to be over there a month this summer, any recomendations on where NOT to go?

Yes, Seattle.

/Nancy

 
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