Shannon Watts says this never happens, and I believe her. After all, she’s on the Internet.
Hero homeowner holds escaped Georgia inmates at gunpoint until arrests
Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Bill Miller said late Thursday that the homeowner caught Donnie Rowe and Ricky Dubose trying to steal his vehicle.
Miller says the escaped Georgia inmates had crashed a car while being chased by law enforcement and fled on foot into woods along Interstate 24 near the rural community of Christiana.
Miller says something alerted the homeowner that people were outside his home and he saw the men trying to steal his vehicle. The trooper says the homeowner held the two at gunpoint with a neighbor he called until the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department could get there to arrest them.
They were lucky. I was thinking about these two characters just yesterday and concluded that if they were running around here rather than Tennessee and I encountered them, it would scare me so bad I’d just keep shooting until they changed shape or caught fire. Not because I’m macho. Because I’m not.
But it’s all just fake news. No good ever comes of a good guy with a gun (and without a badge), I’m told.
So the real explanation was probably in who was doing all the high-fives:
Gov. Nathan Deal released a statement, “Rest assured, justice will be served. My sincere thanks to our local, state and federal law enforcement officers who assisted in the manhunt. Because of their tireless efforts, the public is safe.”
Obviously, Gov Deal (what a great name for a politician) believes in credit where credit is due…
Local (well, Trashville) news has the homeowner correcting the story–he says he didn’t even have to draw his weapon. He’s pretty clean-cut, & he said his vehicle looks like a cop car (which would be a Crown Vic, or, around here, a small SUV), so maybe they thought the Fuzz had arrived, which would imply backup behind him.
The older (Rowe, I think) is from Lewisburg, in southern Middle TN. Christiana is between Trashville & Murfreesboro, and is incidentally the home of Barrett Arms. I used to have to go there to do onsite work.
Yeah, just in case, since hearing of the escape I’ve been checking the sheds, etc., more often. There was no telling in which direction they’d go nor how far; it generally pays to keep one’s eyes open.
“I was thinking about these two characters just yesterday and concluded that if they were running around here rather than Tennessee…”
Prospects for the “sneakiness classes”?
Local snews was on about MS13 critters running the border – gives me pause to consider my own curricula.
I may need a new sign to tack under the others – “School of Courtesy, Politeness, and Planning”.
“My sincere thanks to our local, state and federal law enforcement officers who assisted in the manhunt. Because of their tireless efforts, the public is safe.” . . . oh, yeah, and that good guy who actually caught the bad guys