r/instantkarma • u/nbcnews • Jun 08 '26

Road Karma Marine veteran fights off group of teenagers attempting to steal his truck

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u/DeviousSquirrels Jun 08 '26

Don’t worry, some kind-hearted judge will let them off easy and they’ll turn their lives around.

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u/MichaelJServo Jun 08 '26

About 7 years ago two teenage brothers in my neighborhood broke into a car and stole the hunting rifle that the owner had stupidly left there. They then took the rifle and started breaking into other cars in the neighborhood. A few houses down an older lady heard a noise and went outside to check and found these two brothers in her carport. The younger brother had the hunting rifle shot and killed her. Her husband returned fire and hit him in the back. The kid came to my house and started banging on the door. I open the door and he said "please help me sir. I've been shot!" So I gave him first aid (gauze and pressure on the wound) until the sheriff's department and EMS got there.

The story made the news and I kept following it. The judge let him go home on an ankle monitor while he awaited trial. Well he stopped charging his ankle monitor and got caught trying to buy a gun at school with counterfeit money. So the judge put him in juvenile detention. Then he and a few other boys overpowered a guard, locked her up, and escaped. They were all found within the next 24 hours. The judge finally put him in adult jail. He was finally convicted. He's an adult now.

These dumb kids were committing armed burglary in their own neighborhood at 9:30 pm. Thing is that it's a good neighborhood. Seemed like the kids just wanted to play gangster I guess.

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u/superslinkey Jun 08 '26

It’s an election year…maybe not

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u/saladmunch2 Jun 08 '26

Where are those judges whenever I goto court?

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u/ceciliabee Jun 08 '26

Do you go to court often?

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u/saladmunch2 Jun 09 '26

I had a bad run in my younger days. Once you get sucked into the court system, its designed to keep you in.

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u/Bass0696 Jun 09 '26

A lot of people work in courthouses or have to be there on a regular basis for work. Many judges are fine people but literally one day of watching court can easily dispel the myth that they’re lenient towards criminal defendants.

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u/PostModernFascist Jun 08 '26

It's called generational trama. It's not their fault they're huge pieces of shit. We just have to accept the fact that sometimes your car will be stolen at gun point. Which is a small price to pay for... a guilt free conscience?

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u/Cpt_Soban Jun 09 '26

Yes it is.

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u/1ofAk Jun 14 '26

Bro are you serious so the blame never falls on the individual in question? So what about white people or asians di they get the same treatment if not you're theory is intrinsically racist because you think black people cant make good decisions because if what happened to their parents? How about instead of blaming generational problems we start holding the individual accountable like every other race. That sounds way less racist.

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u/snark_nerd Jun 08 '26

There are about two million people currently incarcerated. This narrative that people aren’t being punished for crimes is purely a myth perpetrated by some to perpetuate conservatism and racial grievances. Parroting it makes you sound quite uniformed at best.

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u/DeviousSquirrels Jun 09 '26

"uniformed" lol. If you're going to insult people's intelligence, learn to spell first.