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Man fined $10K for defending his "property rights"

ne1

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LEWISBURG -- A Media man said he was defending his family business when he fired a handgun at four adults who were changing a baby's diaper outside his Allenwood gas station two years ago.

Just as Sudhir Kumar, 45, was set to go on trial for terroristic threats, simple assault and reckless endangerment, he entered a no-contest plea to the terrorist threat charge Tuesday in Union County Court.

"He believes he was justified," said Union County District Attorney D. Peter Johnson.

Kumar was originally charged with felony criminal attempt to commit homicide and aggravated assault for firing a 9-mm pistol at a group of people on June 20, 2006, at the 24/7 Truck Stop Fuel Food Market on Route 15 in Allenwood.

Nolan Proctor, Michael Kimler, Troy Matty, Tara Proctor and her 7-month-old daughter were around a car at the truck stop changing the infant's diaper when Kumar came out of his business and asked them to leave.

Kumar allegedly went back into the store and returned with a handgun, fired a shot in their general direction and threatened to kill them.

Before the scheduled trial, Johnson withdrew the felony attempted homicide and aggravated assault charges.

On Tuesday, Kumar pleaded no-contest to terroristic threats and told Judge Louise O. Knight, "I fired to get them to leave, in order to save my wife, family and property."

In exchange for the plea, Kumar will be fined $10,000, serve one year of house arrest and 48 months on probation.

Kumar, who no longer owns the truck stop, must also forfeit the handgun.
http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_170003058.html
 

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WTH is wrong with that guy? It only takes a few stupid gun owners to give the ammunition to the antis to paint us all with a broad brush.
 

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Just remember folks, this is a result of not enough pro-shooting-people laws. If we had laws like Texas, then heros like this gentleman wouldn't have done anything illegal! Any real man would have shot all of those people who were trespassing.

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deepdiver wrote:
WTH is wrong with that guy? It only takes a few stupid gun owners to give the ammunition to the antis to paint us all with a broad brush.

I understand your concern, but there are always going to be a few nutcases.

Just remember that the anti-s paint themselves with the blood of the innocents who were deprived of the means to defend themselves. They brush themselves in it; they they shower in it, they wallow in it, they drink it at the altarof theirillusory utopia.
 

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I am still waiting for someone to ask why there was no charge of defiant trespass.

Maybe the station owner should have had a "no changing diapers" sign?
 

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I am still waiting for someone to ask why there was no charge of defiant trespass.
a) They apparently were asked to leave, not told to leave.

b) Kind of hard to leave immediately while in the middle of changing a diaper.

c) Anyone who attempted to prosecute such a charge would be laughed out of court.

On the shooter's side, they did have a loaded diaper. If you've ever experienced one of them, they can indeed be deadly - known to make old ladies gag two blocks away.
 

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ne1 wrote:
I am still waiting for someone to ask why there was no charge of defiant trespass.

Maybe the station owner should have had a "no changing diapers" sign?



No sign would be required if this guy is the owner. Even if charged, the people could raise the defense of necessity. In any event, absent some missing information - there appears to be none, this guy is a nutjob and is getting off easy. Deadly force cannot be employed to cure a trespass (although I don't think there was one) even in Texas and that stupid comment, even in jest should be deleted. Smiley faces do not negate everything.
 

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On Tuesday, Kumar pleaded no-contest to terroristic threats and told Judge Louise O. Knight, "I fired to get them to leave, in order to save my wife, family and property."







SO......what was in that diaper that put his wife, family, and property in mortal jepardy:uhoh:????
 

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My eyes are bleeding after reading that last post...

I wonder, though, whether a lit cigarette or a fired round is more explosion-inducing. Especially if the bullet richochets and produces a hole that will cause more gas fumes. Poor choice, IMO.
 

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Nitrovic? Is that you? ;)

I'm curious where the information in that post was derived... it provided a detailed account of the incident, albeit while entirely unformatted and utilizing gigantic paragraphs.
 

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Had a armed person been in or around the car the idiot "defending his property rights" could have been shot and killed, without violation of law occurring. He was playing with fire.

$10,000 seems cheap to me. He should have gotten some serious time.
 

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ne1 wrote:
Maybe the station owner should have had a "no changing diapers" sign?

State law preempts diaper changing signs. Sect. 565897.0975467.g.d.e.

Baby gotta pooh, baby gonna pooh . . . . . that's what babies do
 
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