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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Homeowner Ventilates Heavily Armed Intruder
2010-04-03
TURLEY - A homeowner shot and killed an intruder Thursday night when the man threatened him with a sword, sheriff's officials said.
A sword? I would have thought a pry bar more practical, but this is not an area in which I have any experience.
The homeowner and his wife arrived at their house in the 6000 block of North Owasso Avenue about 10 p.m. to find the back door ajar and a window open, Tulsa County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Shannon Clark said.

As the homeowner, who had a concealed weapons permit, searched the house, the intruder, later identified as 19-year-old Billy Jean Tiffey III, confronted him with the sword. The homeowner then shot Tiffey three times in the torso, Clark said.
Ooh! Ooh! I seen dat movie!
Investigators found that Tiffey was also carrying a .38-caliber pistol, the homeowner's 9 mm pistol, a knife and a stun gun.
Ok, now it sounds like he was a tad over-provisioned for the excursion... and he's still missing the pry bar.
Authorities interviewed the residents and no arrests were made, Clark said. The case will be sent to the Tulsa County District Attorney's Office for further review.
Posted by: Anonymoose

#9  Wasn't me -- I haven't figured pictures out yet.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-04-03 23:39  

#8  Gloria?
Posted by: Frank G   2010-04-03 17:58  

#7  Second version of that story is that Harrison Ford, a party boy, was hung-over that morning when they were to film the scene.

But I've also read that the shooting was in the script, so maybe Spielberg wanted it the way it was.

Best scene of the movie. Now, who was the mod who put the pic in?
Posted by: Steve White   2010-04-03 17:57  

#6  "The best scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark."

Agreed, Eric.

I read that it happened by chance. They were going to do the usual swashbuckling fight scene, but everybody had dysentery and Harrison Ford was too sick to do it, hence our favorite (and smartest) scene.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-04-03 17:45  

#5  Unless the kid was on the fencing team, he picked the weapon that he was least qualified to weild to threaten the armed homeowner. Obviously the punk's meth connection, the local pawn shop and a high school vice principal have all lost a customer.
Posted by: Super Hose   2010-04-03 13:51  

#4  happiness is a warm gun...and a criminal's cold corpse...
Posted by: Broadhead6   2010-04-03 12:47  

#3  Nice..
Posted by: CB   2010-04-03 12:35  

#2  The best scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2010-04-03 08:15  

#1  "A homeowner shot and killed an intruder Thursday night when the man threatened him with a sword"

I love a happy ending.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-04-03 00:22  

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