Farmer not a vigilante

[wilagro]

Not exactly on topic but what else is new?

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Alberta farmer shot thief vigilante appeal court declares/6895513/story.html

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[tipsy]

for some reason i can not get this page to display. so what happened?

[ASRG]

The appeal court threw out his jail sentence and just put him on probation for 3 months.
Three thieves stole his ATV and he came up shooting.
Instead of probation he should have got a medal!

[wilagro]

tipsy: Still works for me. Highlight it and paste into your browser or with right context menu highlight it and use "open in new tab".

I just tried it and it still works.

To highlight it press and hold left button and drag over the whole URL.

[oneoff]

Since the punishment for a crime is supposed to act as a deterrance; maybe the "30 day" sentence for stealing wasn't nearly severe enough.

Afterall, that is the side of the equation which prompted the whole episode. And there are sure to be a thousand identical such thefts for every instance of where someone catches the thief red handed and does the least thing about it.

I have no doubt most thieves would curse and swear at their infrequent captors and swear vengence and revenge.

As a juror I would have a hard time not going with my convictions; despite how inflexable the "law" might be.

[cottonpicken]

Shooting someone twice with a shot gun in the back
for stealing a quad?

[wilagro]

cottonpicken: why not? Too bad he didn't have #2 shot or better yet slugs. He was trying to stop him from getting away after all.

We might never know how we would react until a similar situation occurred on our own farm.

[cottonpicken]

You guys are kidding right?

[farmaholic]

This whole scene could have turned out real bad. Let's say the thieves were armed and a better shot, is the quad worth a life and a family being fatherless? Hardly.

[grassfarmer]

Apparently not Cotton..... lots of "wild west" dreamers
prepared to take the law into their own hands.
Shooting at someone riding away in the dark is pretty
reckless - could have been facing a murder charge
instead.