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2012/12/05 07:02:31
Subject: Elderly gentleman shoots armed robbers at Internet cafe in Florida [VIDEO - SAFE FOR WORK]
This surveillance video clip shows 71-year-old Samuel Williams thwarting an armed robbery at an internet cafe in Marion, Florida on Friday, July 13, 2012. Williams, a licensed gun owner, may now become the poster child for those who support "concealed carry" rights in the state.
Williams was present when two masked thugs walked into the Palms Internet Cafe in Marion County, Florida. One of the men was brandishing a gun while the other had a bat. They started ordering patrons around and one smashes a computer screen. That's when Williams took action.
Williams was seated toward the back of the cafe dressed in a white shirt, shorts and baseball cap. One of the masked men, identified as Duwayne Henderson, 19 [at left in photo], comes in pointing a handgun at customers. The second man, Davis Dawkins, 19 [at right in photo], is seen swinging a bat at something off screen, which was later identified as a $1,200 computer screen.
As Henderson turns his back, Williams pulls out a .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun, stands from his chair, takes two steps, nearly drops to one knee, and fires two shots at Henderson, who bolts for the front door. Williams takes several more steps toward the door and continues firing as Henderson and Dawkins fall over one another trying to exit the building. The two eventually run off screen.
Both suspects received non-life threatening gunshot wounds, and were later captured by police. Williams will not face any charges, according to a rep from the State Attorney's Office (via Joe Sabia).
Here's the video, cause the one after the link has been removed:
Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
2012/12/05 07:04:19
Subject: Elderly gentleman shoots armed robbers at Internet cafe in Florida [VIDEO - SAFE FOR WORK]
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2012/12/05 07:10:29
Subject: Elderly gentleman shoots armed robbers at Internet cafe in Florida [VIDEO - SAFE FOR WORK]
Probably... happened several months ago, but I just heard about it.
Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
2012/12/05 07:51:29
Subject: Elderly gentleman shoots armed robbers at Internet cafe in Florida [VIDEO - SAFE FOR WORK]
Veteran Sergeant wrote:In the grim darkness of the far future, the guy with a rifle is the weakest man on the battlefield, left to quake in terror, hoping the two or three shots he gets do the job before somebody runs screaming across the battlefield to hit him with an energized stick.
A little overkill repeatedly shooting the guy who only had the bat while he was running away I think. Shooting them in self defense is one thing, but chasing after them when they're fleeing to keep shooting them is probably a bit much.
2012/12/05 09:23:58
Subject: Elderly gentleman shoots armed robbers at Internet cafe in Florida [VIDEO - SAFE FOR WORK]
The video didn't show him pursuing them outside of the cafe, which I think would be the reasonable place to stop pursuit seeing as you've now ejected them from the place they were attempting to rob.
But I don't understand! Those robbers were clearly within 21 feet! That handgun should have been more of a danger to the elderly man than the robbers!
AduroT wrote:A little overkill repeatedly shooting the guy who only had the bat while he was running away I think. Shooting them in self defense is one thing, but chasing after them when they're fleeing to keep shooting them is probably a bit much.
You don't know if he's running to go get a better weapon or not. The social code had already been broken; only the rules of Thunderdome remain.
2012/12/05 17:04:58
Subject: Elderly gentleman shoots armed robbers at Internet cafe in Florida [VIDEO - SAFE FOR WORK]
AduroT wrote: A little overkill repeatedly shooting the guy who only had the bat while he was running away I think. Shooting them in self defense is one thing, but chasing after them when they're fleeing to keep shooting them is probably a bit much.
Chasing? "Williams takes several more steps towards the door." Hardly chasing.
The two guys got away. Not enough overkill IMO.
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2012/12/05 17:11:25
Subject: Elderly gentleman shoots armed robbers at Internet cafe in Florida [VIDEO - SAFE FOR WORK]
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
juraigamer wrote: Why was an old man in an internet cafe in the first place? Furthermore internet cafe's have (enough) money to steal?
They were robbing the patrons of the Cafe.
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The paranoid person in me says that it is a perfect spot for cash, since the shady people using it will most likely pay in cash instead of plastic to keep tracking to a minimum.
2012/12/05 18:43:31
Subject: Elderly gentleman shoots armed robbers at Internet cafe in Florida [VIDEO - SAFE FOR WORK]
When someone comes at another person with a gun then I say kill them. I don't know what they are going to do, and the first chance I get I will kill someone that decides they are going to wave a gun at me or someone I actually like having around.
2012/12/05 18:49:08
Subject: Elderly gentleman shoots armed robbers at Internet cafe in Florida [VIDEO - SAFE FOR WORK]
The Foot wrote:When someone comes at another person with a gun then I say kill them. I don't know what they are going to do, and the first chance I get I will kill someone that decides they are going to wave a gun at me or someone I actually like having around.
Ah, the perfect marriage of stand-your-ground laws with open-carry states.
2012/12/05 19:58:24
Subject: Elderly gentleman shoots armed robbers at Internet cafe in Florida [VIDEO - SAFE FOR WORK]
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