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17 January 2000, 06:51 PM
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Thieves flee from gunman
BY GARY JACOB
A VILLAGER angered by three men trying to steal the wheels from his daughter's car shot one of them in the head with an air pistol.
Gordon Russell, 52, a lorry driver, was awoken at midnight by noises outside his cottage in Illey, West Midlands. Equipped with an air pistol and a pickaxe handle, he confronted the men who had arrived in a stolen car.
Mr Russell, 5ft 11in and 17 stone, knocked one intruder to the ground, smashed the car windows, then fired two pellets at the driver.
The shot man, bleeding from his face, drove off but returned at high speed, tried to run down Mr Russell, picked up his accomplice and fled. The stolen Subaru Impreza was found burnt out two miles away.
Mr Russell said: "I just became so angry that these low-lifes can't keep their hands off other people's property."
Detective Inspector Neville Smart, of Halesowen CID, said: "We are investigating an attempted burglary. We have not received a complaint about any other matters."
BY GARY JACOB
A VILLAGER angered by three men trying to steal the wheels from his daughter's car shot one of them in the head with an air pistol.
Gordon Russell, 52, a lorry driver, was awoken at midnight by noises outside his cottage in Illey, West Midlands. Equipped with an air pistol and a pickaxe handle, he confronted the men who had arrived in a stolen car.
Mr Russell, 5ft 11in and 17 stone, knocked one intruder to the ground, smashed the car windows, then fired two pellets at the driver.
The shot man, bleeding from his face, drove off but returned at high speed, tried to run down Mr Russell, picked up his accomplice and fled. The stolen Subaru Impreza was found burnt out two miles away.
Mr Russell said: "I just became so angry that these low-lifes can't keep their hands off other people's property."
Detective Inspector Neville Smart, of Halesowen CID, said: "We are investigating an attempted burglary. We have not received a complaint about any other matters."
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17 January 2000, 07:57 PM
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While I don't want to condone this type of action I do tend to agree (sometimes) with a comment someone once made to me along the lines of shooting every 4th car thief so the other 3 stop being a pain in the ****
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What isn't very funny is if the Scoob owner had hit the thief in the eye with the pellet. The gutter press would probably turn on him and the thief's defence lawyer would certainly advise to sue.
What's worse, shooting a car thief with a shotgun and crippling him, or shooting him in the head and killing him outright.
A cynic might say it makes more financial sense to go for the head shot.
What's worse, shooting a car thief with a shotgun and crippling him, or shooting him in the head and killing him outright.
A cynic might say it makes more financial sense to go for the head shot.
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