While I've got little sympathy for petty crooks, ya gotta feel a little bit for this kid.
"
A
burglar early this morning clambered over a backyard fence on a quiet
block on the city's west side. He picked the wrong house. He made
it maybe a couple of steps before Rettt the dog, a mixture of
Rottweiler and Doberman pinscher, charged, tearing the intruder's shirt
from his back in a growling, ferocious attack."
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/Oh
no, that's not the bad part. Getting chewed up by a guard dog is
just desserts for the perp. But, and I can testify to this from
far too many unwanted encounters in a gym locker room, our burglar did
not deserve to be confronted...
...by a 91 year old naked man.
"
This gave homeowner Robert E. Thompson, 91, time to jump out of bed,
grab his gun, a .38-caliber revolver loaded with hollow-point bullets,
and to phone the police.
Then he went out back to let the guy know how he felt about home
invaders. He raised the gun and shouted out in the darkness. He thought
there might be three or four of them. He didn't care.
"The funny part was I didn't have any clothes on," said Thompson, a
World War II veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart during combat tours
in Europe. "I was standing out there with a .38 in my hand, and I was
stark naked.""
Naturally the intruder was disabled by the shock.
"
"I
fired a warning shot," he said, and the burglar froze. "I wasn't going
to let the guy get within six or eight feet of me. He spoke only
Spanish, and I couldn't understand anything he was saying. I think he
was more scared than I was, really."
And so they stayed that
way, the hapless young burglar, who appeared, authorities said later,
to be very drunk, and the naked old homeowner, his head cool, his
revolver leveled, until Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies showed up."
And as if the cops weren't already taken aback by the scene when they arrived, the gun goes off again.
"
Thompson
would've made it out of the whole ordeal completely unscathed if, when
the deputies told him to drop the gun, it hadn't accidentally gone off,
sending a tiny bullet fragment ricocheting off the concrete pool deck
and into Thompson's right shin.
He barely felt it, but the
deputies called paramedics and insisted he get checked out at Delray
Medical Center. He was back home by midday, recounting the incident."
I just want to know, why is it always naked _guys_ in the news??
