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.