Dramatic 911 call from right before shooting released

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  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    onelongsong wrote:
    we live different lives in different areas. where i live; we protect eachother and care for eachother. when i found out i had internal bleeding; close to 2000 people donated blood; brought food to me; and come to check on me as well as drive me to doctors appts and the like. i haven't driven since they put me on morphine sept 12th. people even come to feed my animals to help me. maybe he was that close with his neighbours.

    although; based on the 911 tape; the opperator never told him that law doesn't apply to neighbours or only applies to burglers in HIS OWN HOME. it does say however that he cited the law to the opperator to assure he was within the law to shoot.

    Apples and Oranges my friend. I have former neighbors that I would gladly do what your friends and neighbors did/do for you. But caring for someone in need and blowing away two petty criminals are a bit different, don't you think?
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  • onelongsong
    onelongsong Posts: 3,517
    mookie9999 wrote:
    Apples and Oranges my friend. I have former neighbors that I would gladly do what your friends and neighbors did/do for you. But caring for someone in need and blowing away two petty criminals are a bit different, don't you think?

    not in my world.
  • mookie9999
    mookie9999 Posts: 4,677
    onelongsong wrote:
    not in my world.

    remind me to stay in mine then.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    onelongsong wrote:
    so in short; you're taught to enable the criminals. this reminds me of a story where a woman was raped in an alley and nobody acted to help her although many people heard her screams. we now have laws that you are legally required to provide aid. i believe it's called the GOOD SAMARITAN LAW. i'll have to look it up but i can't do it today.
    cheers

    no. in short we're taught that no DVD is worth the price of a life. it's only stuff. the crime of rape is not comparable. that woman being raped is in danger for her life.
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  • onelongsong
    onelongsong Posts: 3,517
    catefrances wrote:
    no. in short we're taught that no DVD is worth the price of a life. it's only stuff. the crime of rape is not comparable. that woman being raped is in danger for her life.

    and how was he to know that the "thieves" didn't kill his neighbours in their house?

    got to run. be back tomorrow.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    onelongsong wrote:
    and how was he to know that the "thieves" didn't kill his neighbours in their house?

    got to run. be back tomorrow.

    dont be bringing fanciful variables into the argument when you know it wasnt the case.
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  • flywallyfly
    flywallyfly Posts: 1,453
    onelongsong wrote:
    and how was he to know that the "thieves" didn't kill his neighbours in their house?

    Yeah or they might have been Al Queda members moving a dirty bomb so you cannot really take a chance on them getting away. On second thought, just say you THOUGHT they were Al Queda and the constitution and laws wont apply to you anyway !!
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    onelongsong wrote:
    excuse me? he lived with me. a friend from school called him and asked for a ride. he couldn't drive from my place to his friend; rob a house; then call and say he's been arrested all within 30 minutes. the other guy agreed to testify against my friend for a shorter sentence. he paid for that with his life though.

    how? you gun him down in the street out of vengeance?
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    onelongsong wrote:
    we live different lives in different areas. where i live; we protect eachother and care for eachother. when i found out i had internal bleeding; close to 2000 people donated blood; brought food to me; and come to check on me as well as drive me to doctors appts and the like. i haven't driven since they put me on morphine sept 12th. people even come to feed my animals to help me. maybe he was that close with his neighbours.

    although; based on the 911 tape; the opperator never told him that law doesn't apply to neighbours or only applies to burglers in HIS OWN HOME. it does say however that he cited the law to the opperator to assure he was within the law to shoot.

    morphine? well that explains a few things.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    onelongsong wrote:
    so in short; you're taught to enable the criminals. this reminds me of a story where a woman was raped in an alley and nobody acted to help her although many people heard her screams. we now have laws that you are legally required to provide aid. i believe it's called the GOOD SAMARITAN LAW. i'll have to look it up but i can't do it today.
    cheers

    i've yet to hear of a good samaritan law mandating that you kill someone for burglary. his neighbor wasn't being raped in front of him. they're not in the same ballpark. they're not even the same game.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    onelongsong wrote:
    and how was he to know that the "thieves" didn't kill his neighbours in their house?

    got to run. be back tomorrow.

    he didnt. how do i know you didnt "run" to go murder my family right now? i better kill you without asking or finding out just to be safe, yeah?
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,230
    prism wrote:
    this reminds me of something that happened like 25-26 years ago when i was still living in my parents house. I had locked myself out of the house. my parents were out of the state and no one else around had a spare key.
    I went over to my friend's house a few blocks away and asked her bf if he would come over and climb into one of the basement windows so that he could unlock the back door and let me in. the only basement widow that turned out to be unlocked was one of the ones in the front of the house. he went through the window, through the house and let me in. once we were in the house I gave him a bag of his gf's clothes that she had left at my house to take with him.
    when the neighbors across the street saw him climb through the window they presumed that he was breaking into the house and called the cops. he leaves by the front door, and he got to the bottom of the steps with the bag in his hand when the cops pulled up. I hear this commotion outside "DROP THE BAG, PUT YOUR HANDS UP!" I go running out there and both he and I are asking the cops what the hell is going on?!? they told us that someone had called in to say that they saw someone breaking in through a window. we explain the sitution, showed them our ID's (me to prove that i lived there) so the cops leave realizing that it was about nothing more than silly me locking myself out. :o

    so now my point is; what if my neighbors had decided that this person that they thought was breaking into and burglarizing our house had taken it upon themselves to shoot and kill my friend before the cops got there? they not only would've shot an innocent person but one that was actually doing a good deed for a friend.
    now granted in this case these people probably were actually breaking in and stealing from the shooter's neighbor's house. however, there's no way for the neighbor to know that for certain. and he doesn't have the right to take it upon himself to decide that 1) they are in fact commiting a crime. 2) they should die for doing it. I could see if he himself was in danger but that wasn't the case here....making him completely in the wrong to kill these people.







    and oh yeah, I did buy my friend a fifth of J.D. for the all the hassle he went through

    This is EXACTLY the kind of scenario that brings this circumstance as to one where caution must be used. To make that decision to use deadly force when your life is not in danger and to make the decision to shoot to kill opens up one to being judge, jury and executioner in this case.

    To me something is totally wrong with this shooting. If detaining them doesn't work and your life is not in danger and they take off. Well follow them IF your that gun ho over your neighbors things and get a license plate.

    Did the thieves even get a chance to run or were they gunned down before having a chance to "freeze"?

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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
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    Actually a vigilante death sentence for simple theft makes cutting someone's hand off look pretty mild. I think it would be bad in the long run to adopt a practice worse than what is practiced in Sharia law (and make it accepted public practice at that).

    I think it would be highly hypocritical (and catastrophic) of the west to adopt that policy, then turn around and try to eradicate Muslims that are in fact more tolerant to the same crime, all the while pretending they are more inhumane.

    I'm not sure that would fly very well.
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  • blackredyellow
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    onelongsong wrote:
    so in short; you're taught to enable the criminals. this reminds me of a story where a woman was raped in an alley and nobody acted to help her although many people heard her screams. we now have laws that you are legally required to provide aid. i believe it's called the GOOD SAMARITAN LAW. i'll have to look it up but i can't do it today.
    cheers

    wow... good samaritan laws are to protect people who help others in aid, not require them to provide aid.

    This thread is funny, and just shows that most of your arguments have no basis... as soon as someone counters a point that you've made, you go into another random story about something worse that happend you know or a story that you've heard...
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    soulsinging wrote:
    no, you don't give up your rights. otherwise we would not have trials. we would not have appeals. we would not have due process, the 5th amendment, juries, etc. if you gave up your rights, you're back to the days of lynch mobs and hanging unpopular folks from trees becos you think they're doing something wrong and enough of your fellows agree.
    IN MY OPINION! And I'm not completely against the rest either... I often say that the only good thing about the north was the punishment beatings (not the stupid ones for say catholics and protestants going out... but ya know knee capping drug dealers or giving little fuckers terrorising the neighbourhoods a good beating to show them there's one law they're NOT above). I'm sorry but I'm one of those who believe in my own justice... but again: IN MY OPINION.
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Collin wrote:
    And since when is stuff worth human lives? Would it be okay if a store owner shot a teenage kid because he stole a candy bar? No? What if he stole two? Or a dvd player?
    In general your average teenage shoplifter would be scared enough to never do it again after simply being caught... being chased out of the shop or even threatening to call the cops would certainly finish their thieving career. Your average house burglar is a little harder to scare into going straight. And like I said, there may be a background to this story.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    soulsinging wrote:
    i've yet to hear of a good samaritan law mandating that you kill someone for burglary. his neighbor wasn't being raped in front of him. they're not in the same ballpark. they're not even the same game.
    someone who blatently thinks they're entitled to everything belonging to other people... well ya really don't know what they're capable of... they're obviously beyond giving a shit about others for a start... and like onelongsong said... if I saw some burglars coming out of my neighbours house... would it be completely unreasonable to think their lives COULD be in danger? :confused:
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • onelongsong
    onelongsong Posts: 3,517
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    someone who blatently thinks they're entitled to everything belonging to other people... well ya really don't know what they're capable of... they're obviously beyond giving a shit about others for a start... and like onelongsong said... if I saw some burglars coming out of my neighbours house... would it be completely unreasonable to think their lives COULD be in danger? :confused:

    i thought about this overnight helen and i think the burglers decided that this STUFF they stole was worth risking their lives. pickle head misquoted me because the good samaritan law says you must give aid to someone in trouble.
    when i see stories like this:
    http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4981656&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1
    i feel it's a citizens duty to help. i'm trying to find another story i heard on the tele yesterday where a man knocked on a door; and forced his way in. he killed the elderly man and robbed the house; but there was a 10 year old girl in the house that locked herself in a closet or something which saved her life. i'll post it if i find it. it happened in phoenix.
    that's why i take my stance. the police will tell you that their job is clean-up. they are rarely present when a crime is committed. if we all ignore crime; we only enable the criminals and fortify the message that crime is ok.
  • onelongsong
    onelongsong Posts: 3,517
    soulsinging wrote:
    how? you gun him down in the street out of vengeance?

    he was using herion on the weekends and the dealer was paid to give him pure herion. he injected it; rolled his eyes back; and died.
  • onelongsong
    onelongsong Posts: 3,517
    blackredyellow wrote:
    wow... good samaritan laws are to protect people who help others in aid, not require them to provide aid.

    This thread is funny, and just shows that most of your arguments have no basis... as soon as someone counters a point that you've made, you go into another random story about something worse that happend you know or a story that you've heard...

    and that's how a debate works.

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