(MO) Store clerk fatally shoots alleged robber

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Oatka:
"I don't understand it," veteran homicide investigator Lt. Ron Henderson said of the spate of shootings of robbers.

"Maybe they're watching too much TV."
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In his defense, the officer may have meant that the robbers were getting more and bold because, on TV, victims never shoot back. :)

The quote is poorly written. I blame the reporter for the vagueness of the quote, not the officer.
 
I also have been present at a couple of 'interviews' where detectives make statements to reporters. I usually get home in time to hear the news reports at 11PM...and sometimes I have to wonder if they are reporting the same story from the same scene I just saw them at...

I mean, not malevolent misreporting...just ignorance coupled with a heavy dose of idiocy.

I too find the detective's alleged statement troubling...but I'm not about to condemn him just because some local doe-eyed reporter thinks he said that.

Mike

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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein
 
Moral of the story... don't rob convienience stores.

Yeah baby, bye bye!

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... But as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
 
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