Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:20:47 -0800
Reply-To: Steve <Steve@SCHWENK-LAW.COM>
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From: Steve <Steve@SCHWENK-LAW.COM>
Subject: Re: Twelve, Six and a verdict on Vanagons
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I forgot...i do know someone who was murdered. I worked with him one summer. He was
abducted and shot in the head by a stranger...whom they caught and who was executed
in Texas about 4 years later. this was in 1990.
"Horace K. Sawyer" wrote:
> Get ready everybody --
>
> >These crimes happen. Sure, they're statistically low, but they do happen, and
> >with sufficient frequency and devastating results to warrant some common sense
> >precautions.
>
> Well, that's true. Who among us wants to volunteer to be that statistic?
> Maybe even the "gun grabbers" will learn by default one day there is
> something to the old adage:
>
> " I'd rather be TRIED by twelve than CARRIED by six."
>
> >
> >BTW I once camped at an undeveloped campsite where i thought we might be
> >attacked and planned exactly how we would escape and what i would do and
> palced
> >my weapons at ready reach.
>
> Yes, I believe you. Thugs abound. Got to protect yourself. But HOW in
> this day and age? "Oh mercy mercy, that awful Vanagon driver shot the poor
> robber with a butcher knife dead! He should be punished! He should only
> have detained him briefly until the lawful policemen arrived to do their
> duty!"
> Then it's off to find a defense lawyer. For self-defense no less. What is
> this world coming to? Oh, but this could never happen to you or me. Who
> says we just have to sit back and take whatever comes our way?
>
> Okay, its not life threatening (that I know of) but here's what happened
> to me just a few days ago: In the Houston airport last Thursday, my cell
> phone and sunglasses case were picked from pocket! Call me a dummy I
> guess. Thief was good at it, for sure. Must have thought my black
> sunglasses case was a wallet. At least he(she) didn't get that. Man, I
> miss that phone. Did echo a bit though . . . Bell South will love the
> bill they send me too from whomever is using the heck out of it. Took 4
> days to reach cus. svc. to get it turned off!
> Just venting a bit here. Give me a bit of space and I will be allright.
>
> Anyone seen a Nokia 2160?
>
> : )
>
> H K Sawyer
> --For the Defense
>
> ----------------------
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