A man used an Apple AirTag to track a truck thief and is currently being investigated for murder. Armed Attorneys Emily Taylor and Richard Hayes discuss the critical self-defense element missing from this Apple AirTag tracking case and the potential for a murder charge.
VIDEO HERE (8:16 minutes)
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This guy is fucked. As the lovely Miss Emily pointed out, it's a liberal county and I guarantee there's going to be a shitload of people (if not all of them) on the jury are going to be asking themselves, "If he had an active tracker on the truck, why didn't he just notify the law and let them recover it?"
Well in the old days they branded their horses and when a horse thief was tracked down they were hung... sort of the same thing, so I'd go with using that as a defense. I personally think they should set a precedent and let the guy go so the criminals will think twice.... Maybe it's not a good thing to steal other peoples property.
ReplyDelete"If he had an active tracker on the truck, why didn't he just notify the law and let them recover it?" De-funded Police, babe. Catch & Release, no cash bail. etc. etc. People forget that in the frontier, the jails were built to protect the accused until the Marshal or the Circuit Judge came 'round. When you empty the jails, this is the natural course of events.
ReplyDeleteOh, I understand those reasons, but I honestly don't think the jury will and those are the ones that count in a criminal trial.
DeleteProblem is that in an area where the police are underfunded, the DA doesn't like to actually put people in prison, or the criminals are getting released without bail on PR; that is an indication of a liberal voting population. The same people that will sit on the jury.
DeleteHe's toast.
He did tell the cops. They did the usual nothing. The thief produced a gun and the truck owner responded by drawing his own and shooting him.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good shoot in Texas.
That is the story I heard. He called the cops and the cops were not interested in helping.
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ReplyDeletejustified
DeleteWhen someone points his heater at you from close distance, you pull your own gat and plug him a few times. That's called self-defense.
DeleteThe cost of being a criminal.
DeleteI've had two "big" things stolen in my life time''
ReplyDeleteA golf cart and a trailer
In both cases the local police did nothing but take the report and file it away
As such, I no longer depend on the police for any positive action
If the item "surfaces" later, and if they take the time to check old records, you might see some resolution -- but that "IF" is just wishful thinking
Several guns were stolen from me. The thief posted pictures of himself holding them on Facebook. What did the cops do? Nothing.
DeleteI bought an iPad so I could track AirTags. I have one on each of my vehicles and one my wife's phone wallet. Her phone wallet indicates she is at a Hilton in Amsterdam right now. She is on a European vacation with my daughter. Am I controlling? No, this is the first time in over a year I have checked my wife's location just because of this post.
ReplyDeleteAn ex-employee walked onto my job site to brazenly steal $1,500 worth of tools. The duty Sgt at the cop shop told me they will not respond and to chalk it up as the cost of doing business. Those are his exact words.
ReplyDeleteThen he told me they will invesigate me if I do something like contact the thief.
Move.
DeleteThe truck owner fafo. This is what car insurance is for people.
ReplyDeleteThe insurance company will be glad to pay out a pittance of the value of the truck. The owner will have the choice of buying some clunker with the amount paid, or using it as down payment on another truck. The only positive in this story is that the thief has been removed from the gene pool. Even if the truck owner is acquitted, his legal bills may well bankrupt him.
DeleteNo, car insurance is mostly a regulatory scam by the car insurance companies. Have you ever used car insurance for an accident or stolen vehicle? You are penalized by the deductible, by the insurance adjuster, by the insurance company. Actually use the insurance you've paid on forever and been a good customer in not needing the service? Your rates will climb or they'll drop you from 'their' service.
DeleteI've used car insurance for accidents, never theft. Always reasonable in the end. Negotiations are part of that process.
DeleteIt would seem the mistake is calling the pigs in the first place. Justsayin.
ReplyDeleteHe tracks down his own truck, which was stolen, and he shoots and kills the thief. I have no problem with this,
ReplyDeleteI'll never get a chance to sit on a jury for this kind of crime.
Wasn’t this in Houston?
DeleteI believe it was in the Houston area.
DeleteHouston PD and Houston City Council have all gone leftist retard. I think the Prosecutor is a Soros jackass, also.
DeleteSan Antonio.
DeleteSan Antonio police say there were 12,348 vehicles stolen in 2022, up from 9,038 in 2021."
ReplyDeleteI'm asking the jury if they really think that the police were going get this guy's truck back for him even if he told them where it was parked.
736 currently uncaptured serial killers agree,
ReplyDeleteDefunding the police is a good idea.
With all the funding they have, why are there still 736 serial killers roaming the streets? Because arresting criminals is dangerous, much safer to harass drivers and pot heads. Defund and disarm the cops. They have proven to be unable to have the privilege of carrying weapons while employed by the government.
DeleteIf he reported it to the badgemonkeys and they did their usual nothing then he was justified in hunting down his truck. If the thief was armed than it was a clear case of self defense. Reports indicate those are the facts. He'll likely be acquitted if charged. But of course the Process Is The Punishment. That's why agenda driven DAs file charges they know will end in acquittal. Because regardless of the outcome the citizen they charge will be bankrupt, unemployed and probably homeless after the trial. It's why they charge innocent people with crimes. To use the system to punish them.
ReplyDeleteThe Law abhors self-help. Yes, I believe that the guy is done like a turkey dinner. His now ruined life was worth a lot more than a vehicle. It is a sad reality and illustrates what is wrong in America. I suppose he could take his spare keys with him and just liberate his vehicle (likely a more complex thing than just saying it), but if the thief has left anything illegal in his vehicle, that can cause him problems as well. Yes, I have lost one car to theft in my lifetime. The a-holes joy rode it, flipped it and torched it. It was a beater, but it was MY beater mobile. Thieves are a very low form of life, and I do not wish them well.
ReplyDelete"Thieves are a very low form of life". But they vote for PROTECTION, they vote for DEMOCRATS".
Delete"A jury of your peers".
ReplyDeleteIn other words, "A jury of 12 people who had their car stolen".
As usual I enjoy reading comments here that put my feelings so much better into words than I can and with this post there's a lot of good comments. Carrying your pistol is easy, using it becomes much more complicated. I have never once had a cop show up in my life and things turned out for the better and that's for 63 years and counting.
ReplyDeleteUsed to work with a lot of cops in San Diego who were also naval reservists. They would tell me that when their airborne brethen were up they could see thousands of lojack cars in mexico that nobody was doing anything about returning to their American owners. OTGH, it was mostly cops that did the ND in my experience.
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