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Title: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: makattak on January 12, 2017, 10:42:24 PM
http://theseattletribune.com/ex-army-sniper-takes-out-neighbors-home-intruder-from-bedroom-window/

The link pretty much tells the story,  but it's really worth it to read to whole thing and imagine what must have been going through the home intruders heads... before the .308, I mean.
Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: TommyGunn on January 12, 2017, 10:51:47 PM
Wow....that was a lot more than "a shot in the dark."   [tinfoil]
Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: cordex on January 12, 2017, 10:54:24 PM
He used his army "riffle" to off those thugs? 
http://theseattletribune.com/disclaimer/
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Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: Scout26 on January 12, 2017, 10:57:59 PM
Whoever edited that piece needs to be taken out and beaten with a dictionary. 

"riffle"  three times.  Not once, but three.
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Post by: makattak on January 13, 2017, 07:36:08 AM
Awww... looks like it was a made-up story.  That might explain the terrible editing and writing that sounded more like a novel rather than reporting.

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Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: Perd Hapley on January 13, 2017, 08:59:45 AM
http://mtstandard.com/news/local/fake-story-still-circulating-on-internet/article_bc1ff1a9-cbe1-5f34-a63e-9e90b5530103.html
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Post by: bedlamite on January 13, 2017, 09:02:20 AM
Awww... looks like it was a made-up story.  That might explain the terrible editing and writing that sounded more like a novel rather than reporting.

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Yep.

http://theseattletribune.com/disclaimer/
Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: Perd Hapley on January 13, 2017, 09:46:05 AM
Another story from that site:

http://theseattletribune.com/texas-country-club-bans-membership-interracial-couples/

No comedic value at all. Just fake news.
Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: K Frame on January 13, 2017, 09:48:00 AM
Yeah I had SERIOUS reservations about it when I read riffle paired with the information on the rifle that was supposedly used.

Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: Perd Hapley on January 13, 2017, 10:06:48 AM
I like the part where he just happened to stick a riffle out the window, and aim it at his neighbor's house.
Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: cordex on January 13, 2017, 10:09:45 AM
I like the part where he just happened to stick a riffle out the window, and aim it at his neighbor's house.
As you do whenever you clean your riffle and adjust your scope.
Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: Hawkmoon on January 13, 2017, 10:47:56 AM
As you do whenever you clean your riffle and adjust your scope.

You don't? Whatsamatta wit youse?
Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: MillCreek on January 13, 2017, 11:14:07 AM
As a Seattle native and lifelong resident, this is the first I have heard of the Seattle Tribune.
Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: K Frame on January 13, 2017, 11:16:20 AM
"adjust your scope."

That's scopple, dumb ass!

:rofl:
Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: makattak on January 13, 2017, 11:26:16 AM
As a Seattle native and lifelong resident, this is the first I have heard of the Seattle Tribune.

And the fact that it is supposedly a Seattle paper reporting on an event in Texas ought to have been a tip-off. (If I had bothered to notice those two facts.)
Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: MechAg94 on January 13, 2017, 11:45:37 AM
As you do whenever you clean your riffle and adjust your scope.
You don't aim at your neighbor's window every time you use the laser bore sighter?   =D
Title: Re: Now that's right neighborly of you...
Post by: Tuco on January 13, 2017, 12:03:43 PM
Years ago, after spirited sessions of adolescent gunsmithing, I'd pull the bolt out of my old '98 rest it on the back of the sitting room chair and sight the Banner4x at the local...
Well, Nevermind.