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| Homeowners Open Fire With AK-47 On Car Thieves | |
| 2009-02-27 | |
| The ATL not the Swat valley A well-armed couple opened fire with an assault rifle and pistol early Friday morning on some car thieves in southwest Atlanta. The couple at a home in the 1900 block of Childress Drive told police that after somebody tried to steal their car last week, they rigged up a homemade alarm in their carport using string and cans. Police told Channel 2 Action News reporter Ryan Young that about 2 a.m. Friday the cans started making noise, indicating intruders were in their carport. The couple swung into action. The husband picked up a pistol and ran outside to confront the thieves. The wife grabbed an AK-47 assault rife and joined her husband outside. They found several men driving off in their car. They told police when the car thieves tried to shoot at them, they opened fire with his pistol and her AK-47. The thieves took off, leaving the couple's car behind. When police arrived they found shell casings littering the driveway and front yard, and the couple's car riddled with bullet holes. There was no blood at the scene so police don't think any of the thieves were hit.
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| Posted by:Beavis |
| #17 Did you see the freaking hoopty-mobile that was being stolen? No way that thing is worth more than $800. Unless it had rims, or a $3000 stereo system in it. When you live in a crappy neighborhood, driving a nice-looking car is an invitation to car thieves. Jalopies are the way to go under those circumstances - preferably a domestic make for which labor and parts are cheap. That particular area of Atlanta is more dangerous than parts of Newark, NJ. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2009-02-27 22:48 |
| #16 If yu can't control your rifle any better than that you had better swap it for a shotgun. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-02-27 18:19 |
| #15 The car doesn't look exactly like a premo grade car to steal. Looks like the kind of car you would donate to the Kidney Foundation to get it hauled off; otherwise you would have to pay to have it hauled off. Most likely the AK-47 wasn't on "full auto" although you can legally own a fully automatic weapon in this country if you want to register it with BATF and pay the fee. That may change under Obama. The lifted "assault" weapons ban under George W. Bush has expired. It's not clear what will happen now. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-02-27 16:44 |
| #14 Then there are repossession/shootouts: "With the economy in shambles, auto reposessions are expected to rise, and violence along with them. The shooting death of Alabama resident Jimmy Tanks by a repo man in the wee hours of June 26 points to part of the problem. The local sheriff says Tanks did what anyone would have done at 2:30 a.m.—he went outside, armed, to check on the noise. The repo man, Kenneth Alvin Smith, who faces murder charges, says Tanks fired first." |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-02-27 15:20 |
| #13 and the couple's car riddled with bullet holes. Now, who would have done that? Insurance job, maybe? |
| Posted by: tipper 2009-02-27 14:35 |
| #12 Family Fued question today, "If someone was breaking into your house, what would use to scare the burgler off?" #1 Answer - Gun (74) |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-02-27 14:31 |
| #11 She fires an AK on full-auto What cracks me up from an european perspective is that the weapon used most probably was a legal (or at least, not THAT illegal) semi-auto knock-off of the AK pattern... just like tens (possibly hundred) of thousands upon ten of thousands of US people legally and peacefully own semi-auto rifles or carbines from the AR-15 pattern, with only a comparatively few owning full-auto actual military rifles. Yet, this american journalist, who should know better, uses "assault rifle" and "AK47", conjuring up images of mags emptied in wild, long bursts. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-02-27 14:24 |
| #10 She fires an AK on full-auto at a car maybe 20 feet away and doesn't hit anybody? Geeze, give somebody else the assault rifle, huh? This broad's a worse shot that the jihadis. |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-02-27 13:34 |
| #9 I don't think we're hearing the whole story. /sarc |
| Posted by: Whurong Gonque4146 2009-02-27 13:13 |
| #8 If it's your only wheels and you drive to work, losing it is a lot more costly than book value. Could also be they've had other problems with the punk thieves and were making a point. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-02-27 12:48 |
| #7 That's a lotta firepower to protect what looks like an '84 Cutlass. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-27 11:39 |
| #6 Broke into the wrong God damn rec room, didn't ya you bastard! |
| Posted by: Burt Gummer 2009-02-27 11:37 |
| #5 There are NO assault weapons in Georgia. Ha! Take a drive down Stewart Ave...oops.. Metropolitan Parkway.. renaming it cleaned it up lol |
| Posted by: Beavis 2009-02-27 11:13 |
| #4 They found several men driving off in their car. They told police when the car thieves tried to shoot at them, they opened fire with his pistol and her AK-47. The thieves took off, leaving the couple's car behind. So they were driving off in the car, got shot at, so they got out of the car and fled? Seems a little odd. Most people would have put the petal to the metal. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2009-02-27 10:57 |
| #3 Did you see the freaking hoopty-mobile that was being stolen? No way that thing is worth more than $800. Unless it had rims, or a $3000 stereo system in it. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-02-27 10:04 |
| #2 Lies, all lies! There are NO assault weapons in Georgia. I have forwarded this bogus posting to the Obamastapo for the appropriate follow-up and action. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-02-27 09:56 |
| #1 There's no word on if the homeowners will face any charges. hmmm.... |
| Posted by: Omolugum Prince of the Platypi2692 2009-02-27 09:46 |