Teen burglar gets second chance

seamusTX · Post by **seamusTX** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:50 am

Florida man awakened by burglar. Punches, tackles, and hog-ties hooded intruder. Turns out to be a 17-year-old girl who later said she broke in because she was bored. She was reportedly armed with a knife.

http://www.local6.com/problemsolvers/11 ... etail.html

This could have turned out much worse for either party.

- Jim

dihappy · Post by **dihappy** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:28 pm

Thats crazy! A teen girl b&e cuz she was bored.

Lord have mercy, can u imagine if she had been shot?

Imagine waking up to an intruder and you reach for your gun. How many of you guys/gals would ask questions before shooting?

anygunanywhere · Post by **anygunanywhere** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:54 pm

Not me.

Anygun.

stevie_d_64 · Post by **stevie_d_64** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:15 pm

Me thinks she'll "never again" be bored...

I remember at 17 being bored...But it never occured to me to alieviate that boredom by breaking and entering someone elses property...

We need to make a poll out of this incident...

"17 and bored, whats your first instinctive act?"

- continue to lay in bed, bored?

- run to the Stop and Go and buy a slurpee?

- run up the minutes on the cell phone your parents gave you for emergency use only?

- kick in a nieghbors picket fence?

- break into someones house?

glocklvr · Post by **glocklvr** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:55 pm

She is lucky she didn't try that at my house because between me and my dog she would have been "bored" in a hospital instead of a jail cell and that's if she got lucky. My husky/wolf mix is very protective of me.

OverEasy · Post by **OverEasy** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:18 pm

"Florida man awakened by burglar."
Isn't FL the original "Castle Doctrine" state?

That girl is lucky to be alive.

KinnyLee · Post by **KinnyLee** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:19 pm

The things kids will do these days.