Gotta Love Texas

[AFI]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5306638.html

[Scott Card]

:ahhh: Idiot....

[JP]

I could only hope I have neighbors who are that alert.

[Jaxx]

I want to live next to that guy...unless he mistakes me for a robber, he seems just crazy enough to do that.

Edit: He's never going to be charged, he's in TEXAS!

[Sombeech]

They were both from Puerto Rico. That burglary was racist.

[Scott Card]

They were both from Puerto Rico. That burglary was racist.I am not sure that card could be played in Texas. Seems like the law re: self defense doesn't apply to this situation unless there are witnesses who will say that the men started to run at the old dude in a threatening manner or they pulled a gun or knife or some other "weapon".

[Deathcricket]

Wow that call is amazing to listen to. Too bad they don't have that law out here. Would be a lot less crime. :2thumbs:

Thanks for sharing this.

[James_B_Wads2000]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5306638.html

Another problem solved by gun violence.


James




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"Every time a Texan kills some one with a gun, George Bush eats a kitten in celebration"

[JP]

Another problem solved by gun violence.
Yep, two less @$$holes in the world that won't be burglarizing anyone, any more. If they had legitimate jobs, they would be alive today. You prey on people, you take your chances.

[Cirrus2000]

I'll not be shedding any tears over these dirtbags, but WTF was this Horn fellow thinking?

He said he had a right to protect himself (true). He didn't think the burglary was right (also true). He seemed to confuse the two thoughts, and feel that he had the right to shoot them for what they were doing (oops - false). Maybe philosophically, in his world he had that right, but not legally in this one. I don't think he's a hero, I think he's a maverick and a menace.

[ExpUt]

...He didn't think the burglary was right (also true). He seemed to confuse the two thoughts, and feel that he had the right to shoot them for what they were doing (oops - false)...

Actually in Texas:

The Texas Penal Code says a person can use force or deadly force to defend someone else's property if he reasonably believes he has a legal duty to do so or the property owner had requested his protection.

The neighbor, however, would have been on much safer legal ground if he had been trying to protect his own property,
LaFon said.

Texas law allows people to use deadly force to protect their own property to stop an arson, burglary, robbery, theft or criminal mischief at night, or to prevent someone committing such a crime at night from escaping with the property.