Running shooting thread 2023

You could file this under 'guns' or 'cops' or 'racism' or 'nitwits.'

Off-duty Texas police officer shoots Black neighbor through closed door

Early on Monday, an off-duty Texas highway patrol officer thought someone was trying to break into his apartment in Houston, according to authorities. He pulled his gun out, shot the person behind his shuttered door – and realized it was his neighbor, officials said.

 

Speaking of Houston and guns and bad gun owners.

VIDEO: Houston Jack-in-the-Box worker shoots gun at customer

 

So the Houston Chronicle online is now CHRON?

Yeesh.

 

If he shot the guy through the door, how'd he know the guy is Black?

 

chronicle.com is the online home of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

 

Peephole? Functioning ears to recognize a specific voice?

 

Well, you know how they knock.

 

Actually, knocking or ringing the doorbell is old school in the smartphone era (my kids have pointed this out to me).

 

Really? What do you do? Text at the doorstep?

 

From the car, outside, wherever.

Don’t ask me — I still knock!

 

From one fossil to another ... you fossil!

 

A preponderance of these things seem to happen in Texas, funny enough.