Tag: Good Guys

Dept. Of Righteous Shootings

Righteous Shootings

Now as we all know, cops are usually disqualified from being lauded for a Righteous Shooting because, damn it, it’s their job to shoot scumbags.

However, on this occasion I’m going to give Our Hero a waiver.

A man allegedly tried to carjack an off-duty Harris County deputy’s car Friday afternoon, around 2:45 p.m. in Atascocita, outside of Houston, and was shot dead by the deputy.

Fine, but why the waiver?  Off-duty cops are still on duty if a crime is being committed, right?

Uh huh.  Except that in this case:

FOX News reported that the deputy’s child was in the vehicle at the time the incident occurred.

So he went from being a cop to being a dad protecting his little girl.  Clearly, a case of a Righteous Shooting if ever I saw one.

You may disagree with me, but you’d be wrong.

Dept. Of Righteous Shootings

Righteous Shootings

Alert Reader Eric K. sends me this lovely report:

A preliminary investigation revealed that an unidentified man followed a female customer into a beauty supply store and groped her, prompting employees at the establishment to demand he leave the premises.  

“The male became increasingly verbally assaultive toward employees and customers, “the release noted. “He started throwing and damaging merchandise in the store. The incident escalated rapidly.”  

While the man was reportedly threatening to kill and harm customers and employees, witnesses told investigators that they believed he was armed with a knife.  

“A second customer in the store, fearing for the store employees, herself and other customers, retrieved a personal firearm and fired a warning at the male,” investigators said. “The male turned toward that customer, fearing she was going to be attacked, fired a second shot striking the male.”  

And the result for El Gropo?

L.A. deputies and personnel with the Compton Fire Department responded to the scene where the man was pronounced dead by paramedics.

Details are sketchy at the moment, and as this happened in Southern California things may not turn out too well for Our Heroine.

However bad they may be, it won’t be as bad a result as what happened to the goblin.  Thank goodness.

A Breath Of Sanity

Communication, Deep Thoughts

I’m pretty sure that I share quite a few Readers with The Divine Sarah (Hoyt), even though we write about totally different things most of the time, and even when we do write about the same thing, each will  often have a totally different (but not opposite) take on the thing under discussion.

And anyway, most of the time she writes about gay pirates or whatever, living on a spaceship or some other planet five hundred years in the future, while I write stuff based on actual historical events.  She’s also sold a jillion novels, and I haven’t.  Clearly the market is more attuned to fantastic (literally) worlds somewhere else than it is to late 19th-century Europe;  so she makes a living from her writing, and I don’t.  Annoyingly, as anyone familiar with her historical novels knows, she writes Regency better than I write Victorian/Edwardian.

C’est la vie.

However, thanks to her upbringing in a tiny rural village in Portugal, the real-life Sarah is — unlike many writers — firmly planted in the here and now, and every so often she writes a post that is full of common sense, pricks many fantastical bubbles along the way, and (in her own sweet way) says, “Stop that bullshit.”  It’s all the better if you’ve heard her speak in person, as I have, because that thick Portuguese accent, with its liquid vowels and strange intonation, is unbearably compelling, exotic and — dare I say? — sexy.

So it’s really wonderful when you imagine her saying something like this:

Guys, let me give you a tiny hint here “Science fiction warned us” really means “Guys and gals who were writing by the rule of cool and trying to make their next month’s rent warned us.” Now, is that scary? Of course not. It’s people writing drama to pay their rent.

Do most of them know what they’re talking about? Well, people like Heinlein did. That’s why he doesn’t have any big insanity like that. But most of my colleagues? Dear Bob (Heinlein). Remember, these are the people who write regencies with exploding carriages and the duchess taking the gig to the supermarket. Stop it, just stop it.

So get over to Sarah’s place and read her take on A.I., if you haven’t already.  You’ll emerge from it refreshed, as I did.

Mighty, Fallen

Good Stuff

Chris Muir has a savage take on today’s NFL.  (For those who don’t get the first panel, this may help.)

Everyone has a website which is the first stop on their daily round of Intarwebz browsing.

Day By Day is mine, without fail.

Chris and I have a warm and cordial relationship which extends back to his very first cartoon strip.  If you’re one of the few people on the planet who have never seen his stuff before, click on the “First” tab, and read them all in sequence.  (It’s known as the “DBD Haj” to his regulars, and several of them, myself included, have done it more than once.)

And support him with yer $$$, because DBD is his job.

Quote Of The Day

QOTD

From Frank J. Fleming (another longtime Intarwebz buddy*):

Sadly, he doesn’t do much at IMAO anymore, focusing on fun stuff there while saving his unfair, unbalanced and unmedicated commentary instead for Twatter.

*Back in the day, I even had the T-shirt:

Dept. Of Righteous Shootings

Righteous Shootings

When you hear news like this, you just know it’s going to have a happy ending:

“10-4 units responding to the burglary in progress, 22nd Avenue caller now advising it was a black male wearing a white shirt armed with a firearm. The caller now advises she has shot that male; he is currently laying on the ground.”

Ignoring the grammar — it’s “lying”, not “laying” — the rest of the story appears to be that a choirboy broke into an Alabama woman’s house armed with a gun, only to discover that said Heroine was likewise armed and quite prepared to defend herself.  Which she did, to his detriment.

Of course, the choirboy was just some innocent kid — not.

Morgan County Coroner Jeff Chunn identified the male as 46-year-old Narado Brinkley, and WZDX said his criminal past includes drug and burglary convictions.

State records show Brinkley served time for offenses, including first-degree robbery, third-degree burglary, possession of a pistol by a convicted felon, and distribution of a controlled substance, WZDX noted.

His records also indicate multiple probation violations, and he most recently served five months after a 2023 conviction on drug and burglary counts, WZDX added.

So maybe not some pore lil’ choirboy, but a total asshole not worthy of any sympathy whatsoever.

There should be some reward — I mean actual money — offered to people who end up ridding society of such scum.  Feel free to disagree with me, but you’d be wrong.