gottabkiddin

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Firing in their direction and not at the BG....? what kind of defense of property is that. I'm glad I don't live in his neighborhood....

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Rhino1965

If he was my neighbor I think I would be moving....He is the typical person that makes gun ownership a easy target for the anti-gun owners.....

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UpOn2Wheels

According to the paper (and they couldn't print it if it wasn't true), the man was armed with a .10mm handgun. One tenth of one millimeter is an awfully small round.

This gives me a few questions, like how did anyone even hear the gun fire? That's got to be a real quiet round. Where does one buy .10mm ammo? I think you'd have to load that yourself. After you cast your own bullets. And cartridges.

BlueNinjaGo

You can import them from Loompaland, which is a region of Loompa, a small isolated island situated in the Pacific Ocean. If you have an Oompa-Loompa friend, they can hook you up.

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TedBeau

Doesn't the paper that reported this have SPELL Check and editors?

Geesh, I counted at least three mistakes.

I know I make a lot of spelling mistakes and typo's but I don't get paid to write news articles either!

TedBeau

Ok make it four mistakes!
I really think I am going to send an email to the reporter and tell him to get a different job.

TedBeau

after re-reading the article I just had to send this to the reporter. Here is a copy of the email I sent.

Chris, I wanted to write to you about an article you wrote that I found on the internet. The article from the Dayton Daily news, was published on October 7. It concerned a man from Beavercreek that fired several shots at someone breaking into his wife’s car.
I realize that in today’s economy newspapers are trying to cut cost, but has your paper totally done away with editors, proof readers and spell checking software?
There are numerous error in the article.
Mistakes 1 and 2.
Phil D. McCall, of 2281 Horseshoe Court in the Hunter’s Ridge subdivision, told 911 dispatchers he fired his .10 mm handgun twice after he discovered a man rooting inside his wife’s care overnight Oct. 6.
There is no thing as a .10 mm handgun. There is however a 10 mm handgun. Secondly, I think you meant the thief was rooting in home owners wife’s CAR not care.

Mistake #3

McCall told the dispatcher a “young punk kid” in baggy sweat pants rang his doorbell and then got inside his wife car.

There should be an apostrophe in the word wife’s.

Mistake #4
McCall said he grabbed his gun, ran outside in his underwear and yelled for the burglar to stop before firing two shots in the suspect’s direction, he said.


You tell us McCall Said, and end with he said, this is redundant.

Mistake #5
In a separate 911 call Joe Sheehan, a neighbor on nearby Wild Dance Trail, said heard the gunshots from what he thought was a car shooting from Beaver Valley Road toward Horse Shoe Court.

You missed the word he, as in “said he heard the gunshots”.

Mistake #6
Spicer said while firing a weapon in a residential neighborhood is dangerous, people should not try to take the law into their own hands.

This sentence doesn’t make sense, was Spicer firing a weapon in the neighborhood while saying this? Or was there supposed to be something additional after dangerous, such as “ it is allowed under law”?
Maybe it would be better if you left out the word while, as in;
“Spicer said firing a weapon in a residential neighborhood is dangerous, people should not try to take the law into their own hands.” Better?

In addition I would like to point out that the fact that the homeowner had a perrnit to carry a concealed weapon is irrelative since he was on his own property and no such permit is required to protect yourself and home.

gilraen

If the guy had set off the alarm on his wife's car (from the remote on her key chain), it might have been enough. Turning on outside (and maybe inside) lights would have helped as well.

No need to shoot.

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mamakennedy

I can see where the guy shooting in the BG's direction was a stupid thing to do. And most people would see this a a minor thing where a firearm shouldn't have come into play.

If I was in that situation bases on the "facts" provided...

Theft or damage to the family car would be a serious set back to the point that we wouldn't be able to get to work. There is no public transportation where I live, and with out the car that would mean NO transportation to the store, doctor, work, or school.
If they were to simple take my husbands tools that stay locked in the car then it wouldn't matter if he could get to work or not, because he wouldn't be able to work.
Weather it was the car or my actual person I can see where a firearm was called for, albeit the use should have been more responsible.

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