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Posted: 8/18/2015 10:28:33 AM EDT
People answer the door to four suspicious characters?
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http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/west-side/2015/08/17/gunmen-shoot-man-during-attempted-home-invasion/31885861/

According to Atlanta Police, Michael Lash, his wife Whitney, their 2-year-old son and infant daughter had just returned to their home on Sumter Street from a vacation when four men knocked on their front door.

"They pretended as if their vehicle had broken down and they were requesting a car jack of some sort from our victim at which point they brandished a weapon," said Ofc. Ralph Woolfolk. The men asked Lash to borrow a car jack and then tried to force their way inside.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:29:31 AM EDT
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Never open the door for strangers.  Ever.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:30:21 AM EDT
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Car-jack....

I bet officer Ralph is sleeping at his desk to crack this case
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:31:13 AM EDT
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He opened the door? Definitely not someone from GD.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:32:21 AM EDT
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Local news guy on the radio this morning said the guy was shot in 2 of his legs.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:32:39 AM EDT
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Suspicious guy ringing doorbell or knocking?  Ignore, observe where he heads off to.

4 guys on my front step knocking?  I am getting the shotgun and kicking on the rear flood lights while I double check the doors.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:33:28 AM EDT
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""It makes you think a little bit, but it also heightens the awareness that it could happen to anybody," the neighbor said."


Well no shit.



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Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:34:09 AM EDT
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No description of suspects, yet asking for help finding them?



PC isn't killing this country, it's killed this country.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:34:38 AM EDT
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I remember the days you could leave your doors unlocked.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:35:26 AM EDT
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Gosh, no description of the perps?
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:36:03 AM EDT
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Wonder how many legs he has?
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:36:23 AM EDT
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He paid for being a fucking idiot.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:36:24 AM EDT
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Only two?  Dog got lucky, yo!
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:36:35 AM EDT
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Thanks, dad.
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Thanks, dad.



You're welcome, son.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:39:14 AM EDT
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Another crime in the daily epidemic of black on white violence.

If 4 white men did the same crime to a black family, we would never stop seeing TV news programs about it. Reverse the races and the government/media does not care.


The family had just returned from vacation to their home on Sumter Street in northwest Atlanta around 7:30 p.m. Sunday when someone knocked on their door.
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Police said Whitney grabbed her infant daughter and the suspects fired twice at her and the baby, but missed. She ran to a neighbor's home.
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Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:40:02 AM EDT
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I am one of the GD freaks who very rarely even gets off the couch when the bell rings and I'm not expecting anyone. People who matter have my phone number. If it's someone else, chances are that I don't want anything to do with it.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:40:28 AM EDT
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Is this is a good part of town?
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:40:47 AM EDT
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People answer the door to four suspicious characters?

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http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/west-side/2015/08/17/gunmen-shoot-man-during-attempted-home-invasion/31885861/



According to Atlanta Police, Michael Lash, his wife Whitney, their 2-year-old son and infant daughter had just returned to their home on Sumter Street from a vacation when four men knocked on their front door.



"They pretended as if their vehicle had broken down and they were requesting a car jack of some sort from our victim at which point they brandished a weapon," said Ofc. Ralph Woolfolk. The men asked Lash to borrow a car jack and then tried to force their way inside.

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Someone will be along shortly to call all of us paranoid schizophrenics for not answering our doors

 















Prayers to the family
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:42:07 AM EDT
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Yes according to neighbors, the family was a victim targeted as an easy mark.

"It was just a shock,” neighbor Rance Jiles said. "Why they picked them out of the neighborhood to do this to, these young people, I don't understand it."

Jiles told Petersen he has lived in the neighborhood for years.

"I've always considered it a safe neighborhood. It's quiet. It's pretty much away from all crime,” neighbor Charlie Powell said.
Many people in the neighborhood say this is the last place they thought this would happen.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:42:46 AM EDT
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Amd 65 next to front door along with three handguns.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:43:16 AM EDT
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This woman is really lucky that she escaped without being raped/murdered.

Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:43:23 AM EDT
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This is a friend of a friend.
They did not own fire arms. Sounds like that will change.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:43:36 AM EDT
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I always stand away and to the side and yell "what do you want?" "I'll call the police for you"

Fucking scum fucks deserve bullets into their livers and leave em in a dumpster to die off
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:45:56 AM EDT
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Another has her running and being cornered by a thug and begging for her life...
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:46:01 AM EDT
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Mrs callgood: did you know there's a pistol on top of the grandfather clock in the entrance hall?

callgood:


Atlanta Police are asking anyone with information about the crime to call Crime Stoppers
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anyone get a description of the perps? I know it all happened so fast but a few details would narrow things down a bit.

Middle Eastern?

Hispanic?

Albino?
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:49:06 AM EDT
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"Teens" at it again!
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:52:30 AM EDT
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That's the main problem right there.  The paper/police/public is petrified to address the elephant in the room.

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”~ George Orwell

Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:56:03 AM EDT
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My Wife and I thought the same thing. But by not giving us a description, they described them to me.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:56:57 AM EDT
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If I don't recognize them, I don't answer the door at all. I'm trying to instill the same sensibility in my wife/kids.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 10:59:48 AM EDT
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And when people ask why I carry a gun everywhere, I shall tell them about this article.

I hope the perpetrators resist arrest and spare the taxpayers the burden of supporting them further.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:00:11 AM EDT
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The only experience I've ever had with someone I don't know knocking on my door is people trying to sell something, people asking for money, Jehovah's Witnesses, local politicans asking for signatures, etc. It's never important, therefore, I don't bother answering the door.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:02:08 AM EDT
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In the comments section, multiple locals are reporting that 1/2 the story is left out.

Once the door was opened, 15 to 19 "teens" ran inside and ransacked the house.





Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:02:56 AM EDT
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What is NW Atlanta like?

Apparently this happened on Sumter Street. I've heard Atlanta has some really nice neighborhoods.

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Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:03:07 AM EDT
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I have a friend that very succinctly put it "Some days, I never leave the house without my gun. Other days, I never leave my room without my gun."

Sounds paranoid to some, but its just being prepared.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:09:06 AM EDT
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In the comments section, multiple locals are reporting that 1/2 the story is left out.

Once the door was opened, 15 to 19 "teens" ran inside and ransacked the house.

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Interdasting
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:11:37 AM EDT
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If someone knocks on my front door ,  I don't  know them.

All I know come thru the back gate to the dock and outdoor bar .

 I always answer the front door with a pistol , day or night.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:11:51 AM EDT
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#1 reason to keep a gun in every room OR on your person.


Given, I live in a really, really safe community, out in the woods. (Private Hunting / Fishing community.)


But the way my house is set up, I can see who's at the door from my kitchen.  Which means, I wouldn't answer the door sans a gun.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:13:46 AM EDT
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Once the door was opened, 15 to 19 "teens" ran inside and ransacked the house.




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15-19? Why, we don't need 30rd magazines at all!

I seriously hope one of these types of mobs runs across someone with skills someday, and half of them get dirt napped. I want this sort of behavior to be discouraged, or for the insane mindset that this is ok to finally be pushed out into the light.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:15:03 AM EDT
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19 'teens' shot homeowner, rob house, and terrorize mother/child and the media refuses to report the facts or descriptions of perps.

Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:16:18 AM EDT
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What is NW Atlanta like?

Apparently this happened on Sumter Street. I've heard Atlanta has some really nice neighborhoods.

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Atlanta has extremely nice neighborhoods. Unfortunately even the nice neighborhoods have break ins. Short of a gated hood (even that doesn't stop it all) it will continue to happen.

After some discussions with Local Police, they have said that the houses closest to interstates get hit the most as the bad guys can hit there house and then hop on the interstate and be on the southside in 10 minutes.

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There is no good parts in the city . There are pockets of nice where urban hipsters are trying to be cool surrounded by ghettos . Ghetto residents steal from the nicer houses , been going on for years . The urban cool treendy inner city types are too stupid to realize the suburbs exist for a reason.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:16:53 AM EDT
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Description???? hmmm, Atlanta...........HMMMMMMM
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:17:12 AM EDT
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Best $200 I have spent on a simple home modification:


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Wife and two kids under 5 at home, door stays shut and locked.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:19:19 AM EDT
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A story " ...straight outta compton"
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:25:03 AM EDT
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This is a friend of a friend.
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Well start asking questions and get us the real story.
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:27:23 AM EDT
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19 'teens' shot homeowner, rob house, and terrorize mother/child and the media refuses to report the facts or descriptions of perps.

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What is his source?
Link Posted: 8/18/2015 11:30:02 AM EDT
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The NEWS has an agenda?    
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Well start asking questions and get us the real story.
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They did not own fire arms. Sounds like that will change.



Well start asking questions and get us the real story.


Working on it busy day at work
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What is his source?
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What is his source?


Neighbors?


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