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Skriven 2005-04-23 22:21:59 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 12082 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
Ärende: Candidate for 2005 Darwin Award
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John Hull -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 JH> 22 Apr 05 00:20, Ed Hulett wrote to John Hull:

 JH>  John Hull ->> All wrote:
 JH>>> This story needs no explanation.



 JH>>>  GOT A WINNER ........... STAY SAFE Remember the old adage "..it
 JH>>> is not wise to take a knife to a gun fight."

 JH>>>  The following mind-boggling attempt at a crime spree in
 JH>>> Washington USA appeared to be the robber's first (and last), due to
 JH>>> his lack of a previous record of violence, and his terminally
 JH>>> stupid choices:

 JH>>> 1. His target was H&J Leather & Firearms, A gun shop specializing
 JH>>> in handguns.

 JH>>> 2. The shop was full of customers - firearms customers.

 JH>>> 3. To enter the shop, the robber had to step around a marked
 JH>>> police patrol car parked at the front door.

 JH>>> 4. A uniformed officer was standing at the counter, having coffee
 JH>>> before work. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced
 JH>>> a hold-up, and fired a
 JH>>>  few wild shots from a .22 target pistol.

 JH>>> The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, the police officer
 JH>>> with a 9mm Glock 17, the clerk with a .50 Desert Eagle, assisted by
 JH>>>  several customers who also drew their guns, several of whom also
 JH>>> fired,

 JH>>> The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics.  Crime
 JH>>> scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the
 JH>>> shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds.

 JH>>> Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons.   No one
 JH>>> else was hurt in the exchange of fire .

 JH>>> Here we are at the beginning of March and we already may have the
 JH>>> 2005 winner of the Darwin Award.

 JH>>> This guy is going to be hard to beat.

 EH>> Wow, that is an old one. That happened several years ago.

 JH> Really?  It just popped up a couple days ago in a local chat echo I'm in.

Yep, it happened back in 1990.

Ed

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