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Starman-style Justice

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by jay_christley, Oct 1, 2006.

  1. jay_christley

    jay_christley Member

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15012086/

    MIAMI - A fugitive gunman accused of killing a Florida sheriff’s deputy was shot 68 times by SWAT team officers who found him hiding in the woods, according to autopsy results.

    Police fired 110 shots at Angilo Freeland, 27, the target of a massive manhunt in central Florida following the shooting death of Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy Matt Williams Thursday.

    “That’s all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told the Orlando Sentinel newspaper.
     
  2. Point of Order

    Point of Order Active Member

    rewrite:

    Shooting 68 of 110 (.618 PCT), SWAT team officers killed a fugitive gunman in front of a massive manhunt crowd in the woods Thursday night.
     
  3. joe

    joe Active Member

    I'd be a little more worried that they missed 42 times. Pathetic.
     
  4. DyePack

    DyePack New Member

    I'm assuming that was sarcastic. After the first three dozen hits or so, I'm assuming he was finished.
     
  5. Del_B_Vista

    Del_B_Vista Active Member

  6. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    Please explain.
     
  7. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    It would have been nice to know, especially for the safety of their communities' residents, that they were a wee bit more accurate than 61.8 percent.
    In other words, that they hit their target more than Shaq hits free throws.
     
  8. pallister

    pallister Guest

    The community's probably safer with a cop killer removed from it.
     
  9. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    If it was indeed a manhunt, and SWAT members killed him, they were likely using automatic weapons. It is very, very hard to accurately engage targets with a fully automatic weapon.
     
  10. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Another heaping helping:

    http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/09/29/inmate.tattoo.ap/index.html

    Get used to it, bitch.
     
  11. Birdscribe

    Birdscribe Active Member

    Did this beat Frank Hamer and Company's record of turning Bonnie and Clyde into wind chimes back in '35?
     
  12. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    I thought this thread would be about Jim Leyland. ::)
     
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