Bulletproof...?
Somewhere out there today is a repo man who is very grateful that the bad guys can't shoot straight. Only one of six shots fired at the repo man early Monday hit him, and that one didn't penetrate his skin. Tom Walsh of the St. Paul Police Department knows the name of the company the repo man works for, but they aren't listed in the telephone book, and Walsh hasn't talked to the lucky fellow.
"What's with this guy?'' Walsh was asked. "Does he weigh about 500 pounds?''
"No,'' Walsh said, "he isn't that big, just lucky. He was wearing a leather jacket, and they were shooting a small-caliber pistol.''
"That's some bad shooting,'' I said, because every once in a while I like to try out a new world-record understatement.
"It's not like we want them on the shooting range,'' Walsh said.
I suppose not. We should be thankful. Many bad guys are simply morons.
It didn't occur to me that we still had repo men. They seem typecast right out of the 1970s, but then I must admit I did watch every episode ever produced of "The Rockford Files.'' Banks still occasionally use repo men. When it comes down to a choice between a repo man and a bank vice president or a third assistant loan officer going to the scene of the nonpayment, the repo man still gets that cold call every time.
It was about 12:30 a.m. Monday when the 23-year-old repo man apparently went to repossess a vehicle in the 900 block of Aurora Avenue. Personally, I could see going out at 12:30 in the morning if it was a Jaguar or a Ferrari, but the delinquent vehicle was a minivan. That is a dedicated repo man. As he approached the minivan, two guys got out of a black SUV and started shooting at him.
Six times the bad guys fired. The repo man did what any sensible fellow would do. He drove himself to a fire station, Station No. 18 on University Avenue. The paramedics took him to Regions Hospital, but the doctors didn't find any holes in the guy, and they released him.
Now, interestingly enough, the police report points out that the "greatest probability'' is that the man was on the scene to repossess a vehicle. In fact, it was a vehicle he had tried to previously repossess. The police don't know for sure and as Walsh pointed out, they haven't talked to the guy.
On Sunday, about 12 hours prior to the shooting on Aurora, there was a shooting at Como and Front. According to Walsh, there has been a series of shootings involving a black Chevrolet Blazer and, yes, the black Blazer was reportedly on the scene of the Sunday shooting. It must have been a sign of either good weather or a mediocre Vikings season that more people weren't indoors watching the Vikings at Detroit over the noon hour Sunday.
Walsh does not believe that the repo man was in any way involved in the Sunday shooting and that he was in the wrong place at the right time, or the right place at the wrong time, when he arrived in the still of the night to get back that minivan. It could be, for example, that the owners of the minivan were involved in the Sunday gunplay
"What's with this guy?'' Walsh was asked. "Does he weigh about 500 pounds?''
"No,'' Walsh said, "he isn't that big, just lucky. He was wearing a leather jacket, and they were shooting a small-caliber pistol.''
"That's some bad shooting,'' I said, because every once in a while I like to try out a new world-record understatement.
"It's not like we want them on the shooting range,'' Walsh said.
I suppose not. We should be thankful. Many bad guys are simply morons.
It didn't occur to me that we still had repo men. They seem typecast right out of the 1970s, but then I must admit I did watch every episode ever produced of "The Rockford Files.'' Banks still occasionally use repo men. When it comes down to a choice between a repo man and a bank vice president or a third assistant loan officer going to the scene of the nonpayment, the repo man still gets that cold call every time.
It was about 12:30 a.m. Monday when the 23-year-old repo man apparently went to repossess a vehicle in the 900 block of Aurora Avenue. Personally, I could see going out at 12:30 in the morning if it was a Jaguar or a Ferrari, but the delinquent vehicle was a minivan. That is a dedicated repo man. As he approached the minivan, two guys got out of a black SUV and started shooting at him.
Six times the bad guys fired. The repo man did what any sensible fellow would do. He drove himself to a fire station, Station No. 18 on University Avenue. The paramedics took him to Regions Hospital, but the doctors didn't find any holes in the guy, and they released him.
Now, interestingly enough, the police report points out that the "greatest probability'' is that the man was on the scene to repossess a vehicle. In fact, it was a vehicle he had tried to previously repossess. The police don't know for sure and as Walsh pointed out, they haven't talked to the guy.
On Sunday, about 12 hours prior to the shooting on Aurora, there was a shooting at Como and Front. According to Walsh, there has been a series of shootings involving a black Chevrolet Blazer and, yes, the black Blazer was reportedly on the scene of the Sunday shooting. It must have been a sign of either good weather or a mediocre Vikings season that more people weren't indoors watching the Vikings at Detroit over the noon hour Sunday.
Walsh does not believe that the repo man was in any way involved in the Sunday shooting and that he was in the wrong place at the right time, or the right place at the wrong time, when he arrived in the still of the night to get back that minivan. It could be, for example, that the owners of the minivan were involved in the Sunday gunplay
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