Semper Paratus
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Sylvia Plath wrote:
Sylvia Plath wrote:
vehicular manslaughter is a felony. If he was in fear of getting ran over and killed and had reasonable suspicion that the intent of the thieves was to run himover to escape he would of had justifiable reason to use deadly force.About ten years ago a friend of mine had his truck stolen in the middle of the night. For about a week he would drive around Salt lake valley in the evenings to see if he could spot someone driving around in it.
It was about 1 in the morning, he was driving through a neighborhood and happen to see his truck. He chased his truck down, with the perps in it. *strait out of a movie* he cornered the truck down a dead end road. The perps turned the truck around and my friend was at that point standing outside of his car...with a .44 mag. The guys began speeding toward him, my friend fired off a few shots, hitting his truck. The perps drove onto someone lawn, escaped. A couple of blocks down the road that same evening the truck was found. The perps had been driving his truck around and parting it out. The front seat was missing, the perps were sitting on 5 gallon buckets.
My friend received a ticket for discharging a firearm within city limits. The ticket was thrown out after about a year as the wheels of justice slowly turned him out.
He should have just called the police, unfortunately.