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Old 10-09-2011, 10:03 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Ashartus View Post
If he'd fired the shots while actually defending his property that would be one thing, but the thief had abandoned the ATV and was running away at the time the farmer shot him, so that's a totally different thing IMO.
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction View Post
True. It was more of revenge than defending his property. I like the idea of vigilante justice, but it is such a slippery slope that they had to charge the farmer really.

Oh, that's what happened, eh? That's what I get for reading the tabloid style OP and being too lazy to read the actual article. I've gone from outrage to agreeance with the sentence.
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