Tift County authorities say a homeowner shot a man after he attempted to force his way into a rural mobile home off Highway 125.
Sheriff's department spokesman David Haire says the homeowner, 33-year-old John Henry Howard Jr., was not hurt during the home invasion. It happened early Wednesday at about 2:30 a.m.
Haire did not identify the suspected burglar, but said his injuries appeared to be serious. The intruder was shot 4 times in the head. He's hospitalized at Tift Regional Medical Center. No charges were immediately filed.
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Reminds me of that US soldier and that UK teen who were stabbed through the skull, with the blade stuck deep in, and who not only lived to tell the tale, but were conscious and ambulatory and in fact not impaired while they had an handle protudering out of their head.
Always amazes me to see how living creatures can be resilient, sometimes.
Anyway, after being shot four times in the head (face?), even if he survives, I'm sure the would-be home-invader will have a reminder of what he attempted to do for the rest of his life, in whatever disability or disfigurement this brings, idiot.
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The caliber and style of bullet has a lot to do with its performance. A .25, .32 or .38 fully jacketed round, or a round without a lot of powder behind it, could conceivably do little damage. 12 gauge with OO buck is just the thing for home defense. If the spray is wide enough, it essentially damages enough parts to insure instant lack of ambulation, and most likely death. However, anon is right about how tough some creatures can be.
I've seen deer shot with high powered rifles through the neck but missing the spine go half a mile before expiring.
Animals are indeed resilient. Perhaps even thieving ones.
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oh about the smirk about going through another mobile home. he made have lived in a mobile home in but at least he had enough balls too take care of himself and his family.Even though you think everyone in GA lives in mobile home prior too common beliefs they don't. And he just may have been in the dark and wanted too make sure he finished him off
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Yes, 'moose, Phineas is one of those examples I've read about over the years, this one is amazing (even before his radical personality shifts resulting from the brain damage) in that the trauma really was massive, with a big loss of brain matter, yet he survived physically unchanged (lost vision in one eye IIRC).
Earlier this year, there was this article here about that french guy who led a normal life, married with children and all, whose brain was actually a big watery blob surrounded by a thin layer of brain. But, he was a civil servant in the south of France, so he really didn't need any kind of brain activity whatsoever to go through the days, just an heartbeat.
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Here in Seattle a homeowner shot a guy trying to boost his car stereo, "aiming for the legs" and kilt him deader than hell with a head shot. Police have not filed charges,...yet.
apologist police spokesperson said that the (dead) perp had a record, but not in King County ( don't know if that is a backhanded way to say they are looking for a way to book the homeowner or not)
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Barbara__ headshots can sometimes have little effect - in SF, two labor leaders were both shot in the head (years apart), one with a .22 and one with a .32. No noticeable effect.
That either says something about small calibers vis-a-vis the headshot or the state of SF labor - your call.
on the other hand, 4 rounds of anything to the head ought to have some impact...
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Brian Hubbard has regularly cut and weeded the small patch of grass outside his three-bedroom home since he moved in four years ago. He also picks up any litter, rakes the leaves and cleans up after the council contractors have left their grass cuttings.
But he has received a letter accusing him of "encroaching" on council land and been told that he must stop tending to the grass and "return the area to its original state within 28 days" or the work would be carried out at his expense. Sloppy work carried out at his expense.
He said: "I like the place to be tidy and attractive and I know the council's contractors cannot do it all so I decided to help out. "I find it grossly irritating that just because I have taken pride in the area where I live and made it more attractive I have had this threatening letter.
"Whoever would have thought that cultivating the grass, cutting it regularly and raking the leaves off could be described as encroachment? Do they want me to put daisies and dandelions in?
Now that you mention it ...
"The other day there were people smashing glass over the road. I got a broom, went over and swept it up. Is that encroachment? The broken glass is natural. It must be left in its natural state.
"This is a perfect example of an overzealous council wasting taxpayers' money. I'm going to ignore the letter and carry on." It is not an overzealous council. It is a group of morons imitating a council.
Mr Hubbard, a former parish councillor who is retired and in his 70s, lives in the house in the Belmont area of Hereford with his wife, Mary.
He received the letter from Herefordshire Council's parks, countryside and leisure development service last week. The letter, which is dated September 8, orders "the removal of garden tools and furnishings and all vegetation not in keeping with the surrounding area".
It also accuses Mr Hubbard of "blocking gate way access", "undertaking maintenance" and gives him "28 days to return the area to its original state". The letter warns: "If there is still an encroachment issue with the property further action will be taken which may result in the above works being carried out at your expense."
Heather Davies, councillor for the Belmont area, said the Hubbards should be congratulated and not punished for taking pride in their local area. She said: "When I was on my way to see them the road looked a mess because the grass had been cut but the cuttings left. Mr Hubbard always picks his cuttings up. If more people were like that the area would look really nice. We should be supporting him because it's brilliant what he does - not sending him letters like this."
Yesterday a spokesman for Herefordshire Council apologised for the tone of the letter and suggested a meeting to discuss the situation. We don't need a meeting with the council. Just stay out of my face and we will all get along.
He said: "We are aware of Mr Hubbard's endeavours to tend the land next to his home in Dorchester Way and commend him for his public spiritedness. "We apologise if he feels the letter he received from us is heavy-handed. We are happy to meet Mr Hubbard to discuss the issue." "Sod off, Swampy." No, the pic below is not Mr. Hubbard.
That's not an apology. If he felt the letter wasn't heavy-handed would you be sorry?
Keep up the good fight Mr. Hubbard!
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so how can they charge him for the expenses of letting the grass grow and the litter NOT get picked up? Is the NEA and UAW that strong over there too????
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Good to see that Kucinich is keeping his constituents in line to do their part for "the cause".
I often wonder what our ancestors will say when they look back on these times many years from now.
Probably "were they fucking insane"?
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Beavis check out their Wiki Page from time to time. I vandalize the hell out of it about once or twice a month. Check on a Sunday morning before 10:00 a.m.
The "people's ticket" ordered a little snack from room service at the Waldorf, as the N.Y. Post's page Six reports:
While he was at a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Michelle Obama called room service and ordered lobster hors d'oeuvres, two whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne, a tipster told Page Six.
I'd guess the bill for that snack came in at around $350. Iranian caviar ain't cheap even if you negotiate for it yourself. What the hell . . . Your campaign contributions (soon to be your tax dollars) at work.
Does anyone else remember Gerald Ford toasting his own English Muffins in the family quarters of the White House? Michelle's style is a little more Leona Helmsley, who's ad campaign featured a picture of herself in one of her hotels, with the slogan, "a hotel fit for a Queen." Can you do that at the White House?
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