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Police are seeking a misdemeanor charge of making a false report against the woman, who was discharged from the hospital earlier.

http://lubbockonline.com/local-news/201 ... ting-story" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- Jim

Keith B wrote:Maybe I haven't been hit 'cause I don't have anything worth stealing.

They wouldn't know that until they broke in, would they?

Also, don't underestimate what thieves will steal. In the mid-1990s there was a lot more petty theft around here. Someone stole our Rubbermaid trash cans, which cost maybe $10 each at the hardware store. We could not leave anything out overnight. It would be gone in the morning.

My wife had an old bicycle that she never really liked to begin with. It had two flat tires. I put it out in the alley. It was gone inside 15 minutes.

(This is also true of robbers. You might not have much, but you have more than they do. They'll steal a credit card for whatever they can charge on it, or a cell phone that they will sell to someone who uses it to call another country until it is cut off.)

- Jim

The family of the victim said last night that the gunshot wound was self-inflicted. Police recovered a weapon but are not saying whether it belong to a victim or delivered the gunshot. No motive is known.

http://www.kcbd.com/story/14396524/poli ... k-shooting" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

So we can only speculate. Possibly it was a bid for attention that didn't go quite as planned. Possibly it was an attempt to cover up a suicide.

Neighbors are relieved that there were no burglars, because now of course they couldn't possibly become victims of a burglary. It never occurred to any low-life in Lubbock County to commit burglary.

- Jim

I posted this because I wanted to show how walking in on burglars is one of the most dangerous things a person can do, even if armed. Doing it unarmed may show incredible guts, but this is a possible result.

Also, IMHO, a burglar alarm has among the best cost-benefit ratios of any home defense mechanism.

- Jim

In Lubbock Tuesday a 55-year-old woman returned to her home in the middle of the day to find two burglars in the the house. She confronted them (or vice versa, depending up your point of view). She was shot and is in serious condition in a local hospital.

The burglars fled and were not apprehended. They are described as two Hispanic men. The same suspects possibly were the subjects of earlier reports of prowlers in the area.

Emergency personnel arrived on the scene nine minutes after the beginning of the initial 911 call.

http://lubbockonline.com/crime-and-cour ... t-burglars" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Maybe someone can explain why the police give the victim's name and exact street address on the TV broadcast.

- Jim
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