Category: Cops
A Houston homeowner called her father and a neighbor for help Monday night when an intruder refused to leave.
Around 11:15 p.m., the stranger appeared at the door. According to Click2Houston, the homeowner did not expect him and he refused to leave.
Montgomery County deputies issued a report on the incident.
Call the Off-Duty Cop For Help
“Feeling threatened, the homeowner contacted her father and a neighbor for help,” the deputies said.
The homeowner’s father is a retired officer from the Houston Police Department. The next-door neighbor, a homicide officer of 9 years with the HPD, was off-duty when she called.
When the father and neighbor arrived, the intruder was still there. The police have not determined what happened when the two officers arrived. They confronted the intruder.
Shots Fired
The conflict grew, and both the father and neighbor shot at the intruder. He received multiple bullet wounds.
The homeowner attempted to help him before the deputies arrived. Sheriff Dolittle said they escorted the suspect to nearby Memorial Hermann Hospital.
After treatment, officials said the intruder is expected to survive.
Investigation Into the Off-Duty Cop and Father
The Sheriff’s Office, HPD, and DA’s Office are investigating the shooting now. They placed off-duty officer on standard administrative leave while the investigation is underway.
Charges are pending against the “prowler,” Dolittletold Click2Houston. Dolittle thanked his deputies in a social media statement.
“I am grateful for the diligent efforts of our Deputies, who work tirelessly day in and day out,” Dolittle said.
Authorities have not reported whether the homeowner, her father, or the off-duty officer were injured.
A United Community Is Better
A study conducted by the Pew Research Center discovered that 60% of American citizens are concerned by the crime levels in our country. Other studies, on the other hand, claim that our crime rates are dropping.
Whether crime rates rise or fall, the problem remains.
(The Folks in Texas tonite Grumpy)
Top honors for “Human Projectile Of The Month” go to an as-yet-unidentified dude who, we’re told, is also a serious contender for the annual Darwin Award. That prestigious prize is given — posthumously — to the person who does the human gene pool the greatest service by removing himself from it in the most extraordinarily stupid fashion. Well, the Darwin folks might see it that way, but we consider it a gallant, if not brainless, form of ballistic research.
Troopers from the Arizona Highway Patrol got involved with this historic event after motorists reported some mysterious scorched and blackened scars on a stretch of deserted highway. The more officers found, the stranger the case got until they pulled back, regrouped, and launched a full-scale investigation.
Here’s what they kinda “pieced” together: JATO units are basically huge canisters of solid rocket fuel used to achieve “Jet Assisted Take Off,” typically lifting big transports into the air from rough-ground short runways or shooting overloaded planes from the decks of aircraft carriers.
They were not, repeat not, designed to augment the inherent boost factor of a 1967 Chevy Impala. But we guess — let’s call him “Zippy”— didn’t know that when he hooked one up to his ride.
Ol’ Zip apparently chose his runway carefully, selecting a nice, long, lonely piece of straight-as-string highway in good repair. Not guessing he might need a bit more than five miles of zoom surface, Zippy’s test track had, that far down the strip, a gentle rise on a sloping turn.
Anyways, the Zipster kicked the tire, lit the fire, and ran his Chevy up to top cruising speed. And then he hit ignition!
Investigators know exactly where this happened, judging from the extended patch of burned and melted asphalt. The pocket-calculator boys figure Zip reached maximum thrust within five seconds, punching that Chevy up to “well in excess of 350 mph” and continuing at “full burn” for another 20 to 25 seconds.
Early in that little sprint, at roughly the 2.5-mile mark, the Human Hydra-Shok stood on the brakes, melting them completely, blowing the tires and rapidly reducing all four ’skins to liquefied trails on the pavement.
Remember that gentle rise on the turn? That’s where Zippy concluded his land-speed record attempt and went for aerial honors, ultimately reaching an altitude of 125 feet and still climbing when his flight was abruptly terminated. We’ll never know how far and how high The Big Zip might have gone. A cliff face of solid rock kind of got in the way, posing a serious violation of the laws of physics vis à vis two chunks of matter attempting to occupy the same space at the same time. Zip gave it hell though, blasting a three-foot deep crater in the terra-very-firma.
The best modern forensic science could do was ID the car’s make, model, and year. As for Zip, only trace evidence was found of bone, teeth and hair in the crater, and splinters of fingernail embedded in what is believed to be a piece of steering wheel. If there ain’t room for this one in the Guinness Book of World Records, there damn sure ought to be an honorable mention in Weatherby’s.
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