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[skeeter@ccia.com]

Here is an interesting but true story. Got a chance to speak to the gent I take my deer to today. Doug. Asking him about what happened out front of his house about a month ago, the story floored me.
There was a local wanna-be gangster wanted for a good 10 drive-by shootings when the locals spotted him in a car. The chase was on..lasted about 10 miles. He ended up crashing into another car in front of the shop. Doug, not knowing he was wanted ran out to help the accident victims. The guy got out of his car, hearing the police sirens, turned to run. Doug thinking this punk was leaving the scene and not knowing police after him, chased him. About 40' away, the guy tripped over a fence and upon picking himself up, turned to Doug, pointed something at him and Doug said sounded like a small pop...Not even a gun fire...So the guy took off around a house and tripped over the other fence and Doug almost captured him when the police screeched in....the guy tossed his gun into the creek as he crossed and they got him on the other side...Now the miracle...the guy had a tec 9 loaded with 30 rounds. When he fired at Doug, the shell was a dud and the round only went 1/2 way out the barrel jamming the gun...hummm....This man for sure has someone watching over him...The guy is charged with about a dozen offenses for all this including attempted murder and faces a good 60 + yrs...they want him to plea and only get about 10...out in 5 if good...Doug worried now...The guy is a punk....and bad news......Oh what goes on outside even in a small town.

[fabsroman]

How many people did he kill? Even one is enough to deserve the death sentence in my book. Justice just isn't fair. This punk killed people, probably hurt people in the car accident, has no money to even attempt to make the loved ones of the deceased whole, much less any money to help the injured in the auto accident. He probably doesn't even have auto insurance on the car he was driving, or it was probably stolen. Honestly, do we ever need this guy back in society again. At the minimum, he should be locked up for life and doing hard labor to pay for his meals and lodging. What ever happened to the chain gangs of old.

I too heard a story a couple of weeks ago. One of my clients had to do 30 days in the Montgomery County, Maryland lockup for violating his probation. He served his time about a year ago. Well, I was at his shop doing some bookkeeping and he told me the story about his two cell mates that were locked up with him. They said that the next time they get locked up, they need to get locked up in Washington, DC because the jails were much better there. Last I checked, the Montgomery Country detention center wasn't all that tough. These guys just kill me. When I went to visit my client at the detention center, he told me it was like being on vacation. He didn't have to work, he got fed three good meals a day, and he got to workout and watch TV.

Jails should be tough places where a prisoner has to earn his keep. Maybe, if jails weren't a picnic to these scum, they might learn a lesson and not want to go back. Maybe, just maybe, if we got tougher on crime, people would commit a lot less of it.

The only other client I have that served time was on a violation of probation for drinking and driving, and that pretty much scared him straight.

[M.T. Pockets]

Being the first one to an accident scene can be scary stuff. I've encountered three different gun toting accident victims while responding to calls over the years. Two of them were methed out and the third was suicidal. If you want to feel undergunned, try holding a firehose or extrication tools when somebody else is waving a gun around.

Be careful folks.