Sneeze, and you are a dead man.

[9mmGuy]

Outstanding!! one for the good guys!

but he said he had to load it. what kind of Home defense weapon needs to be loaded after the bad guys are already there...

[cbr600]

but he said he had to load it. what kind of Home defense weapon needs to be loaded after the bad guys are already there...

I think it looks more like a hunting shotgun than a social shotgun.

[Boma]

I like this story. I think it helps that he's a "minority," because it may shield him from the typical liberal media anti-gun, anti-victim bashing.

+1 for the good guys.

[Paladin]

http://www.khou.com/news/local/crime/st ... 1f83f.html

Speak softly and carry a 12-gauge

11:01 PM CDT on Thursday, October 11, 2007

By Kevin Reece / 11 News



Nathaniel Brooks stole a line from an old Western movie to capture a pair of burglars. A Fort Bend County homeowner fought back when he found burglars in his home.

“You know there's something about when you hear a pump shotgun click,� said Nathaniel Brooks. “It makes everybody think twice.�

And the two burglars did think twice.

“You are trying to steal something out of my garage,� Brooks recalled telling the robbers. “You in my garage so you have no rights now. This is my house.�

He saw them through his back door rummaging through his garage.

“And I walked out of the house and I went around and confronted those guys on the side of the house,� he said. “So, I aimed at him and said, ‘You sneeze, you're dead man.’ And I called the other guy out of the garage.

"I watch a lot of movies it sounded like a good thing to say. It got his attention."

Brooks held them at attention until deputies got there two minutes later.

“I feel like I reacted like every homeowner should react,� said Brooks.

Deputies have praised Nathaniel for what he did, said he is well within his rights to do what he did. But they also say he helped them catch someone who has done this many, many times before.

The suspects are Brian Bostic and Richard Holly. Deputies say this isn't Bostic's first time to be arrested for a break in.

Meanwhile, Brooks has the praise of his neighbors.

"I think it's fabulous I wish more people would do it,� said neighbor Charlotte Priest. "I don't blame him. I'd do the same thing myself."

Even Brooks own wife said in 20 years of marriage she had never heard this tough talking guy before.

"And I have never seen that side of him. It’s like I'm a newlywed now,� said Vanessa Brooks.

Yes, life is good again on Cinco Park Place where burglars are reminded to listen, and think twice.

“Don't go to my house. I wouldn't come to my house if I were you,� said Brooks.