Re: YEAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

axolotl <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rex wrote:

And then there was the Darwin candidate who walked into a gun shop that
catered to LEOs and tried to rob it at gunpoint. All the customers and
the guys behind the counter drew down on the idiot. Don't recall
whether they shot him or not.

Snopes comes through again.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/dumdum/gunshop.asp

A little Google work turned up a version which is far more realistic:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_gun_shop_shootout.htm

Comments: This is a highly embellished account of a real-life incident
that occurred in Renton, Washington on February 3, 1990. According to a
series of reports published in the Seattle Times, what actually happened
is this:

Thirty-three-year-old David Zaback entered H&J Leather & Firearms Ltd. at
approximately 4:40 in the afternoon brandishing a .38-caliber
semiautomatic handgun and announced his intention to rob the store. He
threatened to shoot anyone who got in his way.

Having apparently failed to notice the police car parked in front of the
gun shop when he walked in (true!), Zaback found himself confronted by a
uniformed officer and an armed clerk, who ordered him to drop his gun.
Zaback opened fire instead, drawing a fatal volley of shots from the clerk
and the policeman, both of whom survived the shootout unharmed.

According to the county medical examiner, Zaback was shot a total of four
times (not 23) and died a few hours later in the emergency room. "Several"
armed patrons also drew weapons, the Times confirms, but none actually
fired on Zaback, contrary to the version of events given in the email. It
was later determined that the clerk, whose weapon was a 10mm semiautomatic
pistol (not a .50 Desert Eagle), fired the fatal shot.

--
Curt Welch http://CurtWelch.Com/
curt@xxxxxxxx http://NewsReader.Com/
.

Relevant Pages