Buckshot
05-23-2005, 08:51 PM
..........I was forced to watch TV. To back up a bit, earlier this AM after getting home form work I broke out the yaller pages and started calling tire dealers for prices on good tires. Gone are the days when the first question is, "What's the cheapest...............". And no, I'm not stupidly paying the $231 each, one tire dealer quoted for his best tire.
I ended up calling 9 different places. Before calling the last place, the best deal looked like Goodyear Futuras @ $132 each (P255-70 R 16's) for the wife's Sport Trac. This was $11 bucks cheaper then the Goodyear dealer quoted. A 60K treadwear warrenty, road hazard $14 extra.
Called the last place and they had Cooper's with a 60K warrenty for $104, and it you bought the road hazard at $8/per they'd add another 10K to the treadlife warrenty. On top of that they's rotate and balance if required every 5K, discount if an alignment was needed. I got those.
The waiitng room didn't even have the usual beat to crap 5 month old magazines. Nuttin but a TV and a soda machine. So anyway it's tuned to CNN and this deal on kidnapping in Iraq comes up. The neat part was this guy (Iraqy) who is working with the U.S. and was a target and HAD been kidnapped. Obviously he'd been released after several days but many times he'd had a pistol or AK stuck in his ear.
As the segment came to a close the CNN interviewer and his cameraman were riding in the guy's car and the guy was saying about how he now watches cars behind him and those passing very closely, etc. The best part is that he said he no longer wishs to feel like a pawn to the corrupt kidnappers, and it will not be so easy for them. He has this big grin on his face and looks down between the armrests of the front seat. The cameraman pans down also and the Iraqy pulls out this (looks like) 1911 Colt 45 ACP!
I thought "Good for you dude!"
A bit later the talking heads mention this neighborhood in Oakland, CA I think it was (in the Bay area anyway) that is trying to clean itself of drug dealers and such traffic. It's mainly about this homeowner Patrick O'Donnell and his family who've lived there 10 years and have a 9 y-o son. Just in passing this is a black family. Seems Pat calls the cops whenever he sees the druggies out peddeling and stuff.
So things have really heated up for him like bricks through his windows and verbal harrassment. So Patrick arms himself, just in case. A good thing to come out is that Patrick is very well spoken, and a clean cut individual. To the interviewer's question about the pistol good ole Pat says he has the right to defend himself and his family. Oh yeah, before getting the pistol he'd been beat up by a couple locals.
Apparently one of the neighborhood toughs and his 'Crew' caught Pat out in his front yard and advanced up the driveway toward him, verbally abusing him. Ole Pat says he unlimbers the heat and suggests they depart forthwith. One kid continues to move forward, and Pat's testimony said the kid told one of his buddies, "Gimme the gun" and twisted slightly to his left with is hand out toward one of his buds.
Pat says he saw a pistol in the kid's hand so he shot and hit him high and at the left edge of the chest (the kid was black). The slug exited the side of his chest and then made a through and through of the upper arm. The shot was not mortal. The shot placement as reconstructed was consistant with the perp's position. Pat was charged and then released due to testimony by current beat cops and a couple former cops from that area, and a lieutenant who knew the area and who knew the people involved. Ditto several of his neighbors came forward.
Pat still has his pistol. Pat said he'd do it again. Pat's wife said they weren't going to be run out of thier home. The police have suggested that he might want to move. ADT security wired his house for home security for free (and some good publicity, but still!). Good ole Pat!
The interviwer was very good and was fair, not feeding BS to the camera or asking stupid questions. Back at the studio the well groomed male and female talking heads made some mention about vigilanteism, and some remark I missed about gun control. Maybe they said Pat had good gun contol, ya think?
Probably what they said would have meant Pat would have been shot as he might not have been able to have the pistol, and as a law abiding citizen............... Well, you know?
Several months ago in the Tombstone Epitaph (I have a subscription) they had an article about this mining town in Northern Arizona sometime around the turn of the century or somewhat before. Seems the townfolk finally had had enough and rounded up all the ner do wells, gamblers, prostitutes, ruffians and whatnot and escorted them out of town (I think at gunpoint) and suggested stongly that it would be in their best interest and continued good health if they not return.
Gee, could you see that today?
.............Buckshot
I ended up calling 9 different places. Before calling the last place, the best deal looked like Goodyear Futuras @ $132 each (P255-70 R 16's) for the wife's Sport Trac. This was $11 bucks cheaper then the Goodyear dealer quoted. A 60K treadwear warrenty, road hazard $14 extra.
Called the last place and they had Cooper's with a 60K warrenty for $104, and it you bought the road hazard at $8/per they'd add another 10K to the treadlife warrenty. On top of that they's rotate and balance if required every 5K, discount if an alignment was needed. I got those.
The waiitng room didn't even have the usual beat to crap 5 month old magazines. Nuttin but a TV and a soda machine. So anyway it's tuned to CNN and this deal on kidnapping in Iraq comes up. The neat part was this guy (Iraqy) who is working with the U.S. and was a target and HAD been kidnapped. Obviously he'd been released after several days but many times he'd had a pistol or AK stuck in his ear.
As the segment came to a close the CNN interviewer and his cameraman were riding in the guy's car and the guy was saying about how he now watches cars behind him and those passing very closely, etc. The best part is that he said he no longer wishs to feel like a pawn to the corrupt kidnappers, and it will not be so easy for them. He has this big grin on his face and looks down between the armrests of the front seat. The cameraman pans down also and the Iraqy pulls out this (looks like) 1911 Colt 45 ACP!
I thought "Good for you dude!"
A bit later the talking heads mention this neighborhood in Oakland, CA I think it was (in the Bay area anyway) that is trying to clean itself of drug dealers and such traffic. It's mainly about this homeowner Patrick O'Donnell and his family who've lived there 10 years and have a 9 y-o son. Just in passing this is a black family. Seems Pat calls the cops whenever he sees the druggies out peddeling and stuff.
So things have really heated up for him like bricks through his windows and verbal harrassment. So Patrick arms himself, just in case. A good thing to come out is that Patrick is very well spoken, and a clean cut individual. To the interviewer's question about the pistol good ole Pat says he has the right to defend himself and his family. Oh yeah, before getting the pistol he'd been beat up by a couple locals.
Apparently one of the neighborhood toughs and his 'Crew' caught Pat out in his front yard and advanced up the driveway toward him, verbally abusing him. Ole Pat says he unlimbers the heat and suggests they depart forthwith. One kid continues to move forward, and Pat's testimony said the kid told one of his buddies, "Gimme the gun" and twisted slightly to his left with is hand out toward one of his buds.
Pat says he saw a pistol in the kid's hand so he shot and hit him high and at the left edge of the chest (the kid was black). The slug exited the side of his chest and then made a through and through of the upper arm. The shot was not mortal. The shot placement as reconstructed was consistant with the perp's position. Pat was charged and then released due to testimony by current beat cops and a couple former cops from that area, and a lieutenant who knew the area and who knew the people involved. Ditto several of his neighbors came forward.
Pat still has his pistol. Pat said he'd do it again. Pat's wife said they weren't going to be run out of thier home. The police have suggested that he might want to move. ADT security wired his house for home security for free (and some good publicity, but still!). Good ole Pat!
The interviwer was very good and was fair, not feeding BS to the camera or asking stupid questions. Back at the studio the well groomed male and female talking heads made some mention about vigilanteism, and some remark I missed about gun control. Maybe they said Pat had good gun contol, ya think?
Probably what they said would have meant Pat would have been shot as he might not have been able to have the pistol, and as a law abiding citizen............... Well, you know?
Several months ago in the Tombstone Epitaph (I have a subscription) they had an article about this mining town in Northern Arizona sometime around the turn of the century or somewhat before. Seems the townfolk finally had had enough and rounded up all the ner do wells, gamblers, prostitutes, ruffians and whatnot and escorted them out of town (I think at gunpoint) and suggested stongly that it would be in their best interest and continued good health if they not return.
Gee, could you see that today?
.............Buckshot