Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1e.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihu1e!genesis From: genesis@ihu1e.UUCP (the bowling ball) Newsgroups: net.legal,net.politics Subject: Re: NYC subway "hero" Message-ID: <375@ihu1e.UUCP> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 13:10:18 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1e.375 Posted: Mon Jan 21 13:10:18 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 05:30:42 EST References: <776@reed.UUCP> <709@hou2h.UUCP> <912@amdahl.UUCP> <305@desint.UUCP> <170@cadre.ARPA> <302@mhuxm.UUCP> <179@cadre.ARPA> Organization: AT&T BL, Naperville, Ill. Lines: 34 Xref: watmath net.legal:1341 net.politics:7029 In article <302@mhuxm.UUCP> abeles@mhuxm.UUCP writes: >Interestingly, today's radio news on the way to work included a report >of a similar incident in Chicago--a man shot two punks who tried to hold >him up with knives. He used a gun concealed in a paper bag. While I >feel it is wrong to punish these low-lifes too harshly (i.e., by killing >them) it is definitely a good thing to put some fear into their pointy >little heads. > >--J. Abeles This should be the facts in the Chicago case: 1. The man was returning home from the grocery store, he was carrying a bag of groceries at the time he was approached by the two assailants. 2. The man had to drop his bag of groceries to draw his gun. He did not have it concealed in a bag. 3. The man fired three shots, one of the shots hit one of the assailants in the head, the other got away. 4. Then the man had to pick up his groceries back up and continue home. The Chicago Police said that they "probably" would not press charges against the man, if he comes forward. The one boy that he shot was in critical condition, though. -- Russ Sehnoutka --------- AT&T Bell Laboratories ihnp4!ihu1e!genesis ------ Naperville, Illinois