The owner of a machine shop where thieves stole $3,000 worth of scrap steel, iron and aluminum wasn’t going to let it happen again. After Saturday night’s theft, Joseph Lord loaded his shotgun and laid low, expecting the thieves to return. They came back on Tuesday, in broad daylight.<\/p>\n
When Lord saw their 2008 F-250 pickup truck<\/span>, he shot out its tires and windshield and blasted its radiator, Kennebec County Sheriff Randall Liberty said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI salute\u00a0you, Mr. Lord.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The startled thieves took off on foot, but investigators quickly tracked down the truck’s operator, who will be charged with theft, Liberty said. Charges are pending against an accomplice, the sheriff said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now, as to the bad news?\u00a0 Well, OK – you expect the county sheriff to tut-tut and urge citizens not to “take the law into their own hands”…<\/p>\n
Liberty said he discourages the use of guns to protect property. In this case, Lord told investigators he wanted to disable the vehicle so the criminals couldn’t escape.<\/p>\n
“I can understand the frustration that Mr. Lord must have been experiencing,” Liberty said. But, he added, “We don’t want to see anyone get hurt over property.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(Although the odds of someone innocent being hurt had the scumbags decided to burgle Mr. Lord’s home, and someone was in the house, would have been vastly higher).\u00a0<\/p>\n
No, the main symptom of pansification was the Yahoo News headline that came with the story:\u00a0 “‘Vigilante’ gets revenge on metal shop thieves<\/strong>“.\u00a0<\/p>\n“Vigilante”.\u00a0 Sheesh.<\/p>\n
Since the partisan press holds that word over everyone <\/em>who doesn’t act like a mute sheep in the face of criminal aggression is\u00a0a “vigilante”, “gun nut” or “paranaoiac”, perhaps we – the Real Americans – need to take those words back.\u00a0 After all, “Vigilante” in the original Latin was Vigiles<\/em> – basically “neighborhood block club”.\u00a0<\/p>\nAnd congrats, Mr. Lord.\u00a0 You are a great living American.<\/p>\n
(NOTE:\u00a0 I’m in a less-than-charitable mood today.\u00a0 Any comments criticizing Mr. Lord will be edited for my amusement.\u00a0 This is true only for this post – but it is the case.\u00a0 There is no appeal).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AKA “The Pansification Of America” Joseph Lord of Vienna, Maine was tired of having scumbags working over his machine shop for scrap metal, and being told the police could do nothing. The good news:\u00a0 like any real American, he did the right thing: The owner of a machine shop where thieves stole $3,000 worth of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}