Guest Week 1 – Jennie Breeden
Sep02
It should be noted that this kind of thing happens more often than you think.
What can I say about Jen and Obby that I haven’t noted before? Jen does several comics, foremost being The Devil’s Panties. As her tagline says – it’s not satanic porn. Really. We first met her years ago at a con, and found out we were mutual fans of each others’ work. Since then, we’ve ended up doing at least 1 convention a year with her, often more than that. You should read her comics, because they’re awesome.
She also does Customers Suck and [NSFW] Filthy Figments/ID [NSFW], which IS porn.
You should be reading this on Monday, while we’re doing the final day of Animefest. If you’re in town, come say hi!
Real story? Wow….some people really are stupid.
Still chuckling here over a dumbass that walked into a gun shop and tried to rob them with a knife. I think it was CNN where I saw that.
But damn. I’ve heard people saying NOT to bring a knife to a gun fight, but wtf.
What kind of moron…
Kind of like the robber who tries to hold up a doughnut shop? 🙂
Relatively recently, actually.
http://www.koin.com/2013/07/25/would-be-robber-outgunned-by-gun-store-manager/
There was a movie once about 20 years or more ago, where somebody tried to rob the bar that served as the local watering hole – for the cops. May have even been a TV show since I am dredging this out of memory.
I recall they kept calling and calling the station but couldn’t convince anyone there to come to the bar to collect the miscreant.
The same scenario showed up in a Discworld novel. Of course the Watch doesn’t have
gonnesguns, but they do have a werewolf…It was a Chuck Norris movie.
September 1998, 500 Gun, Speedway (Indianapolis), Indiana. 2 robbers lock owner in bathroom after taking his HK P7. Bathroom contains S&W M66 which owner uses to shoot both robbers dead.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rec.guns/aw4XZuF0LHk/tP2Yma0QPH8J
If someone grabbed my P7, I would be supremely pissed. And when it clatters to the floor after I doubletap the thief, I would be even more pissed for marring the finish.
http://www.snopes.com/crime/dumdum/gunshop.asp
“On 3 February 1990, David Zaback attempted to hold up H&J Leather and Firearms Ltd., … near Seattle, Washington.”
It did not end well. The “Darwin Award” email is somewhat exaggerated, of course. He only had 4 bullet holes, not 23, and was only shot by two people, not 7.
Not quite on the same level of stupidity, but there was an incident a couple of years ago where an armed robber held up a hotel. Competitors in an MMA tournament were staying there. They handed the guy his ass. The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun…
Happened at Miller’s Gun Center in New Castle, Delaware, a few years back. Chowderhead apparently walked right past the marked police cruiser in the parking lot. Needless to say it rapidly became apparent that he did not think his cunning plan all the way through.
Yup. Remember that one.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Lots of incidents like these in “The Armed citizen” from The NRA “American Rifleman”
A long time ago (1970’s?, maybe ’60’s, between Akron and Cleveland, Ohio some guys tried to rob Buckeye Sports, which had a lot of ammunition stored, I think for the National Guard. Anyway, some crooks brook into the ammo storage area. What no one knew till then was that they had several heavily armed guards there. I can’t remember if the cooks were killed or captured. I was a long time ago.
Years ago, I was at a bar I used to hang at, on a night when a bunch of guys from a black bike club made up mostly of ex-military non-coms and retired cops were there to hear the band. Three young guys came in, thinking it would be a good night to hold the place up. Wrong. All the customers had their eyes on them anyway, since they kindof stood out, and when one of them pulled a gun on the owner, they were facing more drawn guns than I’d ever seen before. Boy, were they surprised.