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Never steal a Texan's air conditioner....

RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
SOUTH DALLAS: SHOOTING OVER AIR CONDITIONER

(SOUTH DALLAS, August 7) -- Dallas police are investigating a shooting in which a homeowner shot a man trying to steal his air conditioner early this morning. Police were called to the scene in south Dallas around 4:30. The man says he caught the robber trying to take the window unit out of his home in the 1800 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. He fired one shot, hitting the man in the chest.

http://www.kdfwfox4.com/



Homeowner Shoots, Kills Suspected Burglar
Suspect Dies On Way To Hospital

POSTED: 9:51 a.m. CDT August 7, 2002
UPDATED: 2:47 p.m. CDT August 7, 2002

DALLAS -- A suspected burglar was shot dead Wednesday morning after trying to invade a Dallas home on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Police said the homeowner told investigators he saw the suspect attempting to break into a window in his home, and shot at him, hitting him in the chest.

The suspect died on the way to the hospital.

http://www.nbc5i.com/news/1598970/detail.html


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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    It gets hot there, I'da shot him too!


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  • XracerXracer Member Posts: 1,990 ✭
    edited November -1
    That's as bad as trying to steal a Minnesotan's snowblower in the winter!
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As miserable as the weather has been here all summer, this perp would've been DRT if he'd touched mine. Inarguably self-defense, I'd have died in June without one. Darn, but it was hot June & July, and so humid we could almost drink the bloody air.
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    Pennsylvania Ave is in a bad and poor part of town. The air conditioner may have been worth more than the house. At any rate, the idea of taking someones property in Texas is protected by the use of deadly force in most instances. I'ld say it was justified.

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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    & just imagine how bad the dummy needs that a.c. unit now!
    barto

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  • homer4homer4 Member Posts: 128 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here in Maryland, the guy would get automaticaly 5yrs for discharging a firearm let alone ssault with a deadly weapon or quite possibly a second degree murder indictment.
    You are not allowed to defend your property with deadly force. This is ACLU country.

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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Justified self defense. He could say the man was threatening that he was going to kill him with a heat stroke...

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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Im with Barto!!

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