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Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« on: July 02, 2015, 08:18:43 AM »
Another case of bad victim selection.

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Two journalists got their hands on a crime story up close and personal this week.

Former CNN and Headline News anchor Lynne Russell and her husband, former CNN reporter Chuck de Caro, were involved in a fatal shooting at an Albuquerque, New Mexico, motel, police told NBC News on Wednesday.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gunman-killed-green-beret-former-cnn-reporter-albuquerque-shootout-n385416?cid=sm_fb
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2015, 08:25:09 AM »
Need more stories like this to be told.
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2015, 08:25:48 AM »
Great story!

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"'Is there anything in here we can give him?'" Russell said she asked. "Chuck said, 'Oh, yes, there is.'"

I laughed out loud.   :lol:
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2015, 09:13:13 AM »
I liked her as anchor on Headline News way back when.  She had a dry, deadpan way with humorous or absurd stories that I thought terrific.
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2015, 12:19:41 PM »
One of the reasons she is former is that she didn't fit in with the CNN ideology. She was a former deputy sheriff and it was no secret that she carried.
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2015, 01:00:30 PM »
I think I also remember her as a local anchor before she went national.
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2015, 01:06:51 PM »
Hubby former Army SF also.
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2015, 02:29:05 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on July 02, 2015, 01:06:51 PM
Hubby former Army SF also.

Saw that, let's rob a Green Beret. An acute failure of the victim selection process. There's got to be someplace nicer than Motel 6 that will take dogs though. I say that only for the Monday morning quarterbacking, you don't often find such establishments in the high rent part of town.
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2015, 02:39:46 PM »
Quote from: French G. on July 02, 2015, 02:29:05 PM
There's got to be someplace nicer than Motel 6 that will take dogs though.

Sure, but the nicer places don't take vermin.  If they'd had a real dog, the only reason to shoot the robber would have been to silence his screams of agony.
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2015, 08:17:21 PM »
I love stories with happy endings.
 :rofl: =D
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2015, 08:19:40 PM »
Motel 6 dog rooms haven't been that bad for me.


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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2015, 08:52:44 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on July 02, 2015, 08:25:09 AM
Need more stories like this to be told.

Doesn't count. They've had training and are pro-feshuno enuf to carry a Glock 40.
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2015, 10:45:59 PM »
Quote from: Phyphor on July 02, 2015, 08:17:21 PM
I love stories with happy endings.
 :rofl: =D

Her husband got hit three times :(
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2015, 10:54:47 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on July 02, 2015, 10:45:59 PM
Her husband got hit three times :(

That's what I was going to say.  I mean, he's expected to survive, so that's good, but I prefer it when the good guy doesn't need medical attention after.  =|
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Re: Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2015, 11:12:29 PM »
Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on July 02, 2015, 08:19:40 PM
Motel 6 dog rooms haven't been that bad for me.


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Same here.

But then j am happy with a partitioned house trailer in the middle of the desert if it is clean and has running water.
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2015, 11:14:18 AM »
Quote from: Tallpine on July 02, 2015, 10:45:59 PM
Her husband got hit three times :(

He survived, which is better than what would likely have happened had they not been armed.
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2015, 11:16:39 AM »
Quote from: Phyphor on July 03, 2015, 11:14:18 AM
He survived, which is better than what would likely have happened had they not been armed.


I guess it's not so paranoid anymore to carry a gun in the shower   :laugh:
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #17 on: July 03, 2015, 04:58:29 PM »
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #18 on: July 06, 2015, 09:40:58 AM »
Wow. I like this lady:

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“If you don’t want to carry please don’t. Then, shut the f--k up about it. Make your own decisions. “

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« Reply #19 on: July 06, 2015, 11:02:50 AM »
Showing exactly why she is not Communist News Network material.  =D

In strange places I do not take a gun in the shower but I have been known to leave my carry piece under the folded up bath towel. Everyone expects you to pick up the towel.
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #20 on: July 06, 2015, 11:06:19 AM »
Quote from: French G. on July 06, 2015, 11:02:50 AM
In strange places I do not take a gun in the shower

Yeah, you'd have to be psycho to do that  ;)
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #21 on: July 06, 2015, 11:11:43 AM »
Quote from: Tallpine on July 06, 2015, 11:06:19 AM
Yeah, you'd have to be psycho to do that  ;)

Well, Sledge Hammer wore his gun in the shower ..... [tinfoil]
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #22 on: July 06, 2015, 11:16:55 AM »
Quote from: TommyGunn on July 06, 2015, 11:11:43 AM
Well, Sledge Hammer wore his gun in the shower ..... [tinfoil]

I don't think you saw what I did there  :facepalm:
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Re: Robber killed trying to rob ex CNN reporters
« Reply #23 on: July 06, 2015, 11:19:20 AM »
Quote from: TommyGunn on July 06, 2015, 11:11:43 AM
Well, Sledge Hammer wore his gun in the shower ..... [tinfoil]

With a LOUDENER.

Quote from: Tallpine on July 06, 2015, 11:16:55 AM
I don't think you saw what I did there  :facepalm:

Yes, Janet, we did.
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