Robbers break into man's home in Bellvue, Washington.
He hears them upstairs, from his basement, and escapes out the door.
Robbers already have his flatscreen tv, wife's jewelry box, and other items staged on the front porch to load in the car.
He sees their minivan, left running for a quick getaway, jumps in and drives to safety while thwarting their efforts.
While driving away he calls 9-1-1 and the operator, after laughing when he tells her, seriously advises him to stop driving their car as he could be charged with theft.
Here are the only options:
a. The 9-1-1 operator is desperately misinformed
b. The law that would make this true was written by someone smoking crack - regularly.
c. The operator is a complete idiot.
Under what circumstances do you find yourself successfully fleeing from perpetrators, saving your own life, foiling a crime-in-progress, and leading the police right to the vehicle used in said crime, yet find yourself on the wrong side of the law? Should he have returned the car to the thieves, apologized, and tied himself up? Maybe for good measure he could have helped them load the car and then beat himself about the head and neck so they wouldn't be injured if THEY did it.
If you should find yourself on the wrong end of a gun, do not try to disarm the bad guy or fight for yourself. That gun beLONGS to him, after all. You don't want to be charged with theft or battery.
This has to be one for the You've GOT to be KIDDING! files. Watch the video here http://www.king5.com/video/.
More bears later today!
He hears them upstairs, from his basement, and escapes out the door.
Robbers already have his flatscreen tv, wife's jewelry box, and other items staged on the front porch to load in the car.
He sees their minivan, left running for a quick getaway, jumps in and drives to safety while thwarting their efforts.
While driving away he calls 9-1-1 and the operator, after laughing when he tells her, seriously advises him to stop driving their car as he could be charged with theft.
Here are the only options:
a. The 9-1-1 operator is desperately misinformed
b. The law that would make this true was written by someone smoking crack - regularly.
c. The operator is a complete idiot.
Under what circumstances do you find yourself successfully fleeing from perpetrators, saving your own life, foiling a crime-in-progress, and leading the police right to the vehicle used in said crime, yet find yourself on the wrong side of the law? Should he have returned the car to the thieves, apologized, and tied himself up? Maybe for good measure he could have helped them load the car and then beat himself about the head and neck so they wouldn't be injured if THEY did it.
If you should find yourself on the wrong end of a gun, do not try to disarm the bad guy or fight for yourself. That gun beLONGS to him, after all. You don't want to be charged with theft or battery.
This has to be one for the You've GOT to be KIDDING! files. Watch the video here http://www.king5.com/video/.
More bears later today!
