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(Chron)   Four guys with rifles decide a home invasion would be fun, suffer Acute Failure of the Victim Selection Process   (chron.com) divider line
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16796 clicks; posted to Main » on 20 Jan 2019 at 5:46 PM (4 years ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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doglover
2019-01-20 3:30:12 PM  
I heard this is why south american criminal gangs whack people as they come in or out of the door.  Home invasions are really risky. Easier just to tail someone a few days and get them after a long monday at work
 
whither_apophis [TotalFark]
2019-01-20 3:35:30 PM  
That article was thin on details. I won't be surprised if it turns into "drug deal goes bad"
 
beezeltown [TotalFark]
2019-01-20 3:55:46 PM  
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GRCooper [OhFark]
2019-01-20 4:13:20 PM  
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Winterlight [TotalFark]
2019-01-20 4:37:43 PM  
Who lived in that house, John Wick?
 
netringer [OhFark]
2019-01-20 4:42:38 PM  
Texas, huh?  If it was in Chicago, the families of the robbers would have already filed wrongful death suits in Cook County court.
 
Descartes
2019-01-20 4:45:21 PM  
One of the alleged robbers died at the scene. Two others fled in a vehicle before hitting a pole two blocks away; one man was found dead in the vehicle, and the other collapsed one block away. He was transported to the hospital, where he died.


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Sliding Carp [TotalFark]
2019-01-20 4:51:06 PM  

Winterlight: Who lived in that house, John Wick?


John Woo.
 
netringer [OhFark]
2019-01-20 5:07:52 PM  

netringer: Texas, huh?  If it was in Chicago, the families of the robbers would have already filed wrongful death suits in Cook County court.


Actually, it has happened twice recently in Chicago that women being robbed on the street had concealed carry permits so the tough guy(s) had a bad day:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-woman-shoots-robber-chicago-20190108-story.html
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/concealed-carry-attempted-robber-hyde-park/

Cook County lawsuits pending.
 
fusillade762
2019-01-20 5:11:44 PM  
There seems to be some disagreement about how many people were involved/shot.

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Sid_6.7 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2019-01-20 5:34:37 PM  

Winterlight: Who lived in that house, John Wick?


I doubt the guys going in were exactly professionals.

I'll be curious to see what the details are, but I'm guessing they were fairly bunched up and were taken by surprise.
 
Bslim
2019-01-20 5:50:38 PM  
Not a fan of the 2A. But it's good to see it has some use. F*ck home invaders.
 
SpaceMonkey-66 [TotalFark]
2019-01-20 5:52:07 PM  
This was on the news a couple of days ago down here......play stupid games, win stupid prizes.  I was surprised that that many went down, until the reporters said the homeowner was cleaning house with an AK

Good riddance to bad rubbish 🗑.
 
fragMasterFlash [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2019-01-20 5:52:57 PM  
It's Houston. I wouldn't step uninvited upon someone's lawn without expecting an armed response.
 
Bslim
2019-01-20 5:54:56 PM  
Even better would be if the remaining jackhole gets his worthless ass charged with felony murder for his buddies deaths.
 
dlwhite
2019-01-20 5:55:21 PM  
Several sites show over 33 shell casings on sidewalk and street but not on his property. Very interesting.
 
netringer [OhFark]
2019-01-20 5:55:48 PM  
You'd almost think that the hoods might get the word that victims are no longer playing the rules and consider another line of work.
 
Mister Peejay
2019-01-20 5:56:01 PM  

doglover: I heard this is why south american criminal gangs whack people as they come in or out of the door.  Home invasions are really risky. Easier just to tail someone a few days and get them after a long monday at work


I do not understand.  If they know when he won't be home, and aren't interested in keeping him alive for ransom and just want to burlgarize the place, why not just break in and leave before he gets home?
 
Pats_Cloth_Coat
2019-01-20 5:56:29 PM  

Bslim: Not a fan of the 2A. But it's good to see it has some use. F*ck home invaders.


SpaceMonkey-66: This was on the news a couple of days ago down here......play stupid games, win stupid prizes.  I was surprised that that many went down, until the reporters said the homeowner was cleaning house with an AK

Good riddance to bad rubbish 🗑.


Do you really think they chose the house at random?

Home invasion targets are picked for a reason. An immigrant family that doesn't trust banks and has a lot of cash in the house; someone with a lot of expensive jewelry.

Given the resident's ready response at a late hour, there was a ton of cash and/or drugs in that house. This is two sets of criminals fighting it out, and the Second Amendment made it possible.
 
Mister Peejay
2019-01-20 5:57:36 PM  

dlwhite: Several sites show over 33 shell casings on sidewalk and street but not on his property. Very interesting.


Revolver?
 
Advernaut
2019-01-20 5:58:10 PM  
Makes the 1,300 kids who blow their heads off with daddy's protect the household gun almost worth it.
 
jaytkay [OhFark]
2019-01-20 5:58:45 PM  
That single mom preparing lunch for her kids who gunned down the bad hombres who randomly picked her place for a home invasion sure is a hero.

Oh, wait...
 
secondpsych
2019-01-20 5:59:30 PM  

Sliding Carp: Winterlight: Who lived in that house, John Wick?

John Woo.


Woo's on first.
 
gunsmack
2019-01-20 6:00:02 PM  

SpaceMonkey-66: This was on the news a couple of days ago down here......play stupid games, win stupid prizes.  I was surprised that that many went down, until the reporters said the homeowner was cleaning house with an AK


Newscasters have long been identifying anything larger than a derringer as "an AK-47".

/ take it with a few pounds of salt
 
iheartscotch
2019-01-20 6:00:36 PM  

Mister Peejay: dlwhite: Several sites show over 33 shell casings on sidewalk and street but not on his property. Very interesting.

Revolver?


There's a little net thing you can put on the side of a gun if you aren't interested in leaving brass all over the place.

/ or he picked up his own brass
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2019-01-20 6:01:22 PM  
Wow, subby, could you have found any articles with even fewer details to spare?

"Many shot, some dead"?
 
swamp_of_dumb
2019-01-20 6:01:54 PM  
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4 v 1? Now that's gun control
 
SpaceMonkey-66 [TotalFark]
2019-01-20 6:02:21 PM  

Pats_Cloth_Coat: Bslim: Not a fan of the 2A. But it's good to see it has some use. F*ck home invaders.

SpaceMonkey-66: This was on the news a couple of days ago down here......play stupid games, win stupid prizes.  I was surprised that that many went down, until the reporters said the homeowner was cleaning house with an AK

Good riddance to bad rubbish 🗑.

Do you really think they chose the house at random?

Home invasion targets are picked for a reason. An immigrant family that doesn't trust banks and has a lot of cash in the house; someone with a lot of expensive jewelry.

Given the resident's ready response at a late hour, there was a ton of cash and/or drugs in that house. This is two sets of criminals fighting it out, and the Second Amendment made it possible.


Eh, probably the former or we'd have heard about it by now if it were a drug thing.

I doubt more restrictive gun laws would have prevented the home invasion.  However, it mght have cost the homeowner his life, at least in this case.

I give you an 8/10.  Was succinct, and didnt stray too far toward being overblown,
 
ansius
2019-01-20 6:02:28 PM  

dlwhite: Several sites show over 33 shell casings on sidewalk and street but not on his property. Very interesting.


That homeowner got lucky that he didn't end up in the morgue as well.

And if it's shown that he chased them out into the street and shot them as they were fleeing, that's no longer self-defence.
 
iheartscotch
2019-01-20 6:03:19 PM  

Gyrfalcon: Wow, subby, could you have found any articles with even fewer details to spare?

"Many shot, some dead"?


You do realize that we green tweets now?

/ I still say that Twit would be the proper term for someone using Twitter....
 
secondpsych
2019-01-20 6:03:23 PM  

Pats_Cloth_Coat: Bslim: Not a fan of the 2A. But it's good to see it has some use. F*ck home invaders.

SpaceMonkey-66: This was on the news a couple of days ago down here......play stupid games, win stupid prizes.  I was surprised that that many went down, until the reporters said the homeowner was cleaning house with an AK

Good riddance to bad rubbish 🗑.

Do you really think they chose the house at random?

Home invasion targets are picked for a reason. An immigrant family that doesn't trust banks and has a lot of cash in the house; someone with a lot of expensive jewelry.

Given the resident's ready response at a late hour, there was a ton of cash and/or drugs in that house. This is two sets of criminals fighting it out, and the Second Amendment made it possible.


Stfu...the second amendment made it possible...
 
RaptorLC [BareFark]
2019-01-20 6:04:05 PM  

fusillade762: There seems to be some disagreement about how many people were involved/shot.

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I mean, it's Texas. "One, two, many, lots" is about all you can hope for them to count to.
 
GameSprocket
2019-01-20 6:05:47 PM  
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NotThatGuyAgain
2019-01-20 6:06:20 PM  

Pats_Cloth_Coat: Given the resident's ready response at a late hour, there was a ton of cash and/or drugs in that house. This is two sets of criminals fighting it out, and the Second Amendment made it possible.


If someone kicked in my door right now I'd grab a pistol and shoot and I have little money and zero drugs in my home.  Does that make me a criminal?  I'm not.

/I also have a motion sensor on my porch, one would have to be a ninja to not set it off
 
BrerRobot
2019-01-20 6:07:21 PM  
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AmbassadorBooze
2019-01-20 6:07:45 PM  

Advernaut: Makes the 1,300 kids who blow their heads off with daddy's protect the household gun almost worth it.


Those kids have shiat for parents.  You begrudge a person the ability to protect themselves because other people are shiat parents?  Did the person in tfa blow off the hands of the kids, or did the kids  blow off the hands with this person's gun?

Want to protect kids and make sure they don't have shiat parents?  Institure breeding permits.  Make sure prospective parents are not shiat.
 
LewDux [OhFark]
2019-01-20 6:09:03 PM  

Winterlight: Who lived in that house, John Wick?


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SpaceMonkey-66 [TotalFark]
2019-01-20 6:09:51 PM  

iheartscotch: Gyrfalcon: Wow, subby, could you have found any articles with even fewer details to spare?

"Many shot, some dead"?

You do realize that we green tweets now?

/ I still say that Twit would be the proper term for someone using Twitter....


A little more info here.  Photo caption said homeowner used an AK...

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
 
Visual Howlaround Title Sequence [TotalFark]
2019-01-20 6:10:06 PM  
*reads article*

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Visual Howlaround Title Sequence [TotalFark]
2019-01-20 6:11:13 PM  

SpaceMonkey-66: iheartscotch: Gyrfalcon: Wow, subby, could you have found any articles with even fewer details to spare?

"Many shot, some dead"?

You do realize that we green tweets now?

/ I still say that Twit would be the proper term for someone using Twitter....

A little more info here.  Photo caption said homeowner used an AK...

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes


My best friend lives in Houston.

/ why yes he owns an AK
// the only sane option in Houston
 
Buck Dancer
2019-01-20 6:11:21 PM  

Bslim: Not a fan of the 2A. But it's good to see it has some use. F*ck home invaders.


Thoughts and prayers for the police officers who should have been waiting at the house for the attackers to attack.

/2A, pff, screw your right for self-protection
 
FatherDale
2019-01-20 6:11:33 PM  

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Ah. Time for a cigarette.
 
brantgoose [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2019-01-20 6:12:20 PM  
Haitch! They did so badly I am swearing in (very mild) French!
 
dyhchong
2019-01-20 6:12:26 PM  
Waiting for the follow up lawsuit from the families.

Many lols will be had.
 
jaytkay [OhFark]
2019-01-20 6:12:49 PM  

NotThatGuyAgain: If someone kicked in my door right now I'd grab a pistol and shoot and I have little money and zero drugs in my home.  Does that make me a criminal?  I'm not.


LOL your fantasy. Wank on, child. You're gonna take down the bad guys!!!!
 
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2019-01-20 6:13:18 PM  
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Herr Morgenstern
2019-01-20 6:13:24 PM  
I'm pretty anti-gun, and even I don't have much of a problem with this. You break in, you roll the dice. Sounds like they got what was coming to them.
 
Buck Dancer
2019-01-20 6:13:40 PM  

Descartes: One of the alleged robbers died at the scene. Two others fled in a vehicle before hitting a pole two blocks away; one man was found dead in the vehicle, and the other collapsed one block away. He was transported to the hospital, where he died.


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CHUCKY BRO!!!
 
SpaceMonkey-66 [TotalFark]
2019-01-20 6:13:52 PM  

Visual Howlaround Title Sequence: SpaceMonkey-66: iheartscotch: Gyrfalcon: Wow, subby, could you have found any articles with even fewer details to spare?

"Many shot, some dead"?

You do realize that we green tweets now?

/ I still say that Twit would be the proper term for someone using Twitter....

A little more info here.  Photo caption said homeowner used an AK...

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

My best friend lives in Houston.

/ why yes he owns an AK
// the only sane option in Houston


I prefer the CZ Scorpion, ammo is interchangeable with a couple of my other pistols.  An AK round can go through a lot more things than a 9mm will.
 
big pig peaches
2019-01-20 6:14:06 PM  

Mister Peejay: dlwhite: Several sites show over 33 shell casings on sidewalk and street but not on his property. Very interesting.

Revolver?


Maybe it was one guy with 6 guns.
 
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