Monday, June 30, 2008
You Got Joe Horn'd
or...I'm gonna pull a Joe Horn on you.
You know you have made it to the big time when your name can be used as a verb (like Google). Joe Horn, if you don't know is the guy from Pasadena that shot two burglars in the back for robbing his neighbor's house. He called 911 to report the burglary, but decided on his own to confront the the two men, even at the insistence of the 911 operator telling him not to go confront them.
Well, there have been debates about this. Mr. Horn was cleared by a grand jury of the shooting. What is the law? I don't know. I thought that we were not a society full of vigilantes. What is the point of having laws...hell, even justice if we have a society of vigilantes?
Now, I'm not siding with the burglars (who were shot in the back by the way). They did wrong. Do they deserve to be punished...yes, to the full extent of the LAW....not to the full extent of a vigilante's decision of being judge, jury, and executioner.
If you ever decide to visit Pasadena...or Texas by that matter, be sure not to lock your keys in the car. If you try to jimmy the lock to get your keys...you could get Joe Horn'd.
You know you have made it to the big time when your name can be used as a verb (like Google). Joe Horn, if you don't know is the guy from Pasadena that shot two burglars in the back for robbing his neighbor's house. He called 911 to report the burglary, but decided on his own to confront the the two men, even at the insistence of the 911 operator telling him not to go confront them.
Well, there have been debates about this. Mr. Horn was cleared by a grand jury of the shooting. What is the law? I don't know. I thought that we were not a society full of vigilantes. What is the point of having laws...hell, even justice if we have a society of vigilantes?
Now, I'm not siding with the burglars (who were shot in the back by the way). They did wrong. Do they deserve to be punished...yes, to the full extent of the LAW....not to the full extent of a vigilante's decision of being judge, jury, and executioner.
If you ever decide to visit Pasadena...or Texas by that matter, be sure not to lock your keys in the car. If you try to jimmy the lock to get your keys...you could get Joe Horn'd.
# posted by CU @ 7:49 PM 
