…but we’ll let you off lightly, this time.
Author: Kim du Toit
Dept. Of Righteous Shootings
Alert Reader Hugh S. suggested that I might enjoy this story, and indeed I do.
In north Minneapolis, of all places:
The shooting happened around 3:37 p.m. in an alley near the intersection of Golden Valley Road and Russell Avenue North. Police Chief Brian O’Hara said two armed suspects flanked a Mercedes SUV stopped in the alley and that both men fired their guns. One of the gunmen was found shot on the ground and was pronounced dead. Police found the second gunman nearby, determined he was a suspect and placed him under arrest.
Go ahead and read it all. As far as I can tell, the cops are still trying to figure out who shot whom, but none of that is relevant. There’s another dead goblin off the street, and that’s all we care about.
SOTI
Quote Of The Day
Seen here: Progressive Culture and the Crisis of the American Male
These were all humiliation rituals… struggle sessions aimed at traditional American men and their favorite pastimes. All of them engineered and prosecuted by the Progressive Left. And they are working precisely as they were intended, which is to say badly, for American men.
And really: ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ “It was twenty years today” ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ (or thereabouts) that someone wrote this.
I still prefer my trenchant description.
Gun? What Gun?
From his lair deep in the Soviet Republic of Taxachusetts, Reader Mike L. sends me this report:
Christina Sumner of Roanoke said she was shocked and concerned there was a loaded gun left in her rental car.
Sumner rented a car from Enterprise in Roanoke on Feb. 2, and everything seemed normal at first. Then Enterprise called her a day later, telling her there may be a gun in her car.
Well now, this is an interesting situation. Note the qualifier “may be” in the last sentence; in other words, Enterprise didn’t actually know there was a gun in the car — or perhaps they did, but wanted to cover their corporate asses.
However, this poses an interesting situation. What if you’d already found the gun in the car, but told Enterprise that there had to be some mistake: you could find no gun nor indeed any evidence of a gun in the car?
Of course, I would be deeply conflicted. On the one hand: a “free” gun. On the other hand, it was just some Europellet delivery vehicle, and therefore of little interest to me, so I wouldn’t mind handing it over. Also, it being a 9mm means that the erstwhile owner may have been a state or federal official — especially if it was a Glock — and given the latter’s reputation of losing guns, or leaving them in public toilets etc., it wouldn’t surprise me at all that this might be the case. That might certainly influence any decision between “Oh yeah, here it is, come and collect it”, or “What gun? / Finders keepers, numbnuts”.
But it’s a damn good thing the “missing” gun wasn’t a Les Baer or Kimber 1911 .45ACP…
Talk about temptation.
Discuss, in Comments.
Speed Bump #287
Aaaarrrrgh.
Oy. “Everyday” is an adjective, e.g. “an everyday occurrence” is something that occurs, well, every day. Which is what should have been written in the above headline, but Chief Editor Spell-Check doesn’t recognize the difference.
Fucking illiterate assholes.
