OT: Dog the Bounty Hunter, Sign the petition Options

[Mr.C]

Please sign the petition.
http://www.xkastclients.com/dog2/petition/

Both of my uncles are bounty hunters. One even had his own show for awhile, American bounty hunter in the 90's. So I am a big fan of what they do.

[73Phoenix20]

There is no place in a civilized society for bounty hunters. They really are a throwback to the days of the wild wild west.

A few years ago in Mesa, Arizona a group of bounty hunters broke into a home unannounced in the middle of the night dressed in black with hoods on and guns out to apprehend a criminal who had jumped bail. The owners shot at the intruders and he was killed in the gunfight and his wife was seriously injured. Turned out, oops, wrong house. No charges against the bounty hunters due to the fact that they were acting as bounty hunters at the time and are allowed to break into homes under Arizona law and are allowed to defend themselves in doing so. John McCain promised he would look into changes in the law in Arizona but nothing has been done since that occurrence.

Bottom Line: You can either roll over and play dead when someone breaks into your "Castle", or you can go "Commando", have the full up Sonic alarm system set, double locks on the doors, bars on the windows, and the necessary 12 GA Street Sweeper w/ 00 Buck and the AR15 (full auto, double banana clips taped back to back, but nobody needs to know that) cocked and locked...

After several years in South FL, there really isn't an option... Cocked and Locked it is!!! And YES, we are heading back into the era of the "Wild Wild West"... the Cops, try as they might, can't begin to offer protection... just look at that mess in CT where the town druggie and his pal broke into the Doc's upscale house, raped his wife and daughters, held him captive to get him to take money out of an ATM, and then finally burned the house, with the family tied to their beds...

Yeah the cops caught 'em...as they were leaving the house (on fire!) in the family SUV... sorry, too little protection and WAY too late!!!

Bottom line is that Evil will always try to win out over Good (no religious connotations intended; just a fact), and you have the choice... be ready to fight, or be ready to die. If you have something of value, some a**hole will try to take it from you, and that includes your life... sometimes by mistake!

How hard you make it for the a**hole will determine to some degree how successful he (or she!) is... I intend to make it extremely hard!!!

[jd74914]

.. just look at that mess in CT where the town druggie and his pal broke into the Doc's upscale house, raped his wife and daughters, held him captive to get him to take money out of an ATM, and then finally burned the house, with the family tied to their beds...

Yeah the cops caught 'em...as they were leaving the house (on fire!) in the family SUV... sorry, too little protection and WAY too late!!!

Living not to far away from those people, its not quite so simple. That guy wasn't the town druggie . . . he (they both were) was a multiple convicted felon who had been in jail for a multitude of VIOLENT crimes. The people whose house was broken into lived very close to a maximum security prison (from which these guys had just been let out of on parole (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bs.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) ) Right now this case is causing a three strikes law to be passed, as this should have never happened. Why the hell would you release multiple convicted violent felons out of prison (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif)

I don't think guns or all of the protection in the world would have helped these people. If you were woken up at 4am by two armed guys there is no way to find some weapons and fight back . . . as far as alarms go, they could have been forced to call the alarm company and claim that they accidentally set it off . . . in this case the only thing that saved the father was a bank teller. If those bastards hadn't taken the mother to the bank she could have never alerted anyone to their situation.

I cannot believe how long it took the PD to get there though, the criminals had time to drive from the bank to the house and then light it on fire and almost get away before the police were there. Admittedly though, since I've never spent any amount of time in that town, they were probably moving as quickly as possible.

In any event, it is truly a tragedy. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)


On the subject of bounty hunters, just like anything else there are those who are good and bad. Its really too bad that there is a need for such professions.