Adding Insult to Injury

Louisville police have arrested an individual on charges of attempted murder, assault, and robbery.  Nothing strange about that.  People get arrested in Louisville every day.

The attempted murder charge seems to come from an incident where the suspect and an accomplice robbed and shot a man on the street.   Again, while tragic, nothing out of the ordinary for Louisville there.

However, the story gets weird after that.  A couple of days later, knowing that their victim was still in the hospital and that his home would be unguarded, they burglarized his house.

Talk about big brass ones.  These guys are either masters of planning or complete morons.

First, you mug a guy then shoot him six times.  Then, taking advantage of his condition, you rob his home.  No thoughts that maybe doing so many things to one guy might make it easy for the police to tie it all up in a nice little package for the prosecutor.

Where do people come up with these ideas?  It would never occur to me to tell someone "Carry your gun when you walk down the street so that someone doesn't rob you and then burglarize your home while you're laid up."

Good for him

The owner of a tobacco store in Louisville proved the old adage "Don't use a gun in a crime.  Your victim might take it away and shoot you with it".

The jerkoff who tried to rob the smoke shop got a bullet in the leg for his trouble, and is currently in the hospital awaiting his time in the gray bar hotel with a distinct limp.

Excuse me for a little schadenfreude here, but I hope it hurt like a son of a gun.

Busy little minx, isn't she?

A woman in Louisville was arrested today for committing eight robberies since Saturday.  Her targets included a gas station near where I work, as well as several restaurants in the area.  She apparently robbed several places, then changed her hair style and color, then robbed some more.

Just imagine if she'd put all of that thought and effort into finding gainful employment.  The mind boggles at how much better off she'd be if she'd gotten a job and stuck with it instead of becoming a full time guest of the criminal justice system.

This points to one of my opinions about life:  Most of the crime is committed by a dedicated corps of dirtbags.  Most people are too busy getting through job, family, school, or whatever to be such a nuisance to their neighbors.  There will be a few pikers who occasionally flout the law, but the majority of the time police spend investigating crimes is dedicated to the problems caused by a small minority of our citizenry.  Just my opinion, but I keep seeing things like this to back it up.