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2007-05-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Home invasion gone wrong for [illegal] criminals

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Posted by Delphi2005 2007-05-02 13:48|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He he.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-05-02 15:01|| 2007-05-02 15:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Clay Pigeons: Another job Americans won't do.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-05-02 15:17|| 2007-05-02 15:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn good thing she didn't work for the Border Patrol; poor girl would be in jail by now.....

Posted by USN. Ret. 2007-05-02 15:24|| 2007-05-02 15:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't ya just love a happy ending

Posted by Warthog 2007-05-02 15:34|| 2007-05-02 15:34|| Front Page Top

#5 The sad thing is that this poor 11YO girl is going to have to live with the knowledge she killed two people. Don't get me wrong--I'm glad she did!--but clay-shooting champion or no, she's still an 11YO girl, likely a fifth-grader, and that's going to haunt her for the rest of her life.

She may also face a legal fight from the families of the two creeps--if there were any justice in the world they will get laughed out of court and loaded into the next bus to the border.

Posted by Dar">Dar 2007-05-02 15:36|| 2007-05-02 15:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't know...it's all a little too pat. I smell a fantasy story here. Why does the article mention a Mossberg 500 by name? The media never gets firearms right, on the rare occasions that they get specific. It doesn't mention where in Montana...etc etc.

Posted by gromky 2007-05-02 15:40|| 2007-05-02 15:40|| Front Page Top

#7 I think this story is a hoax. After a quick google search, only emails or I saw this stories are posted. One had details about this happening in Butte, Montana on Nov. 6, 2006. After searching the newspapers for any story on a Patricia Harrington, nothing came up.

Still, it gave me the warm fuzzies.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-05-02 16:04|| 2007-05-02 16:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Hate to be a wet blanket but this has urban legend written all over it. Scroll down in the comments at the link and you'll see one of the commenters pretty much take it apart.

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2007-05-02 16:05|| 2007-05-02 16:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Something like this would have been all over the news outlets. But zero legitimate google hits. An http://email is not a legit source.

Posted by ed 2007-05-02 16:41|| 2007-05-02 16:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Patricia - 2, Goblins - 0

Sniff, sniff. I love a happy ending.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-05-02 17:37|| 2007-05-02 17:37|| Front Page Top

#11 I checked Snopes and the urban legends page at About.com. Nothing. Which doesn't mean it's real, just that they haven't checked it out yet.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-02 22:56|| 2007-05-02 22:56|| Front Page Top

#12 So much for that -- Snopes has the story up now. link They don't know for certain, but they think it's an urban legend. They say the Resindez name was used by the now-imprisoned Railroad Killer.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-02 23:06|| 2007-05-02 23:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Almost all the sources reference back to the "NRA files", but as of yet, I don't know if anyone has contacted the NRA to confirm or deny.

The story has been circulating for a while, with the only dispute as to whether the girl was 11 or 9 years old.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-02 23:38|| 2007-05-02 23:38|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm sure this would have appeared in the Armed Citizen column if it was true and yet I've never seen it there in my NRA magazines. It just reads....wrong. And how many newspapers and news agencies use the word 'illegal aliens'. They'd be undocumented immigrants.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-05-02 23:43|| 2007-05-02 23:43|| Front Page Top

#15 http://tinyurl.com/y8y7jw

Here is a link to about the only Montana home invasion defense I can find:

Teen shoots, kills 2 would-be robbers

An overnight home invasion robbery attempt in northeast Harris County ended in a hail of gunfire that left two suspects dead.

Investigators said a 17-year-old was home with his cousin when four armed men kicked in the door and started shooting.

The teen pulled out a shotgun of his own and fired back at the suspects, killing two of them.

Two other suspects were later caught.

The 17-year-old asked to not be identified.

Truthfully, it was either them or me, regardless of who was on the other side of that door or whoever kicked my door down, it was either him or me, he said. Im thankful to be standing here today. I thank god.

Authorities said at this point they are not planning on filing charges against the teen.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-02 23:51|| 2007-05-02 23:51|| Front Page Top

#16 Wikipedia has an "urban legends" entry. It refers to snopes, which gives us this.

Posted by gorb 2007-05-02 23:54|| 2007-05-02 23:54|| Front Page Top

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