Wednesday - September 18, 2013

still buzzing

Mr. Busy Bee, that’s me.

Doing all the things that need doing today. I’m also bowling nearly every day this week. Practiced a bit Sunday afternoon, got asked to be a substitute Monday, Greed League on Tuesday, subbing tonight for another league, Fun League on Friday. You’d think I’d be getting better; “practice makes perfect” it’s said. But like most things everybody knows, that’s wrong. Practice makes persistent. Not better, just habitual.  OTOH, I’ve rolled 2 games above 200 for every 3 that I’ve played since last week. Unfortunately the 3rd one has usually been a stinker, so my average hasn’t changed a jot.

Down to the auto parts store now; have to get those spark plug wires. Meh, I was hoping I’d get off cheap with just replacing the plugs, but I kind of figured it was the wires. Oh well. Not unexpected.

And away I go ...

Oh hey, did you see this one? Jeweler in France gets robbed, another one of those motorcycle snatch ‘n grab crimes so prevalent in Europe. So he kills the guy. And the gendarme arrest him. And now France is in an uproar. How dare anyone consider it a crime to use deadly force in defense of yourself and your property?!? Mon dieu.

Outrage in France after jeweler charged for killing thief

Outrage is growing in France over the decision to bring voluntary homicide charges against a jeweler who shot and killed an escaping robber, but the country’s top security official on Tuesday urged fearful storekeepers to let justice take its course.

The 67-year-old jeweler, Stephan Turk, was confined at home with an electronic bracelet after the shooting last week that left a teenage robber dead in the street outside Turk’s jewelry story in the French Riviera city of Nice. An accomplice escaped on a motorbike as the body lay in the street.

In a country where gun violence is rare but armed robbery is increasingly common, the shooting—and the formal charges of voluntary homicide—have placed the government in a difficult position.

“Even when faced with the unbearable, we have to let justice prevail,” Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday in Nice, where he was sent by the president a day after a protest by hundreds of Turk’s supporters.

Jewelers in southern France say they’re being targeted as never before and lack the resources to protect themselves.

“It was a difficult situation. I don’t know how I would have reacted myself. I don’t endorse what he did, but he had been beaten and threatened with death,” Yan Turk, the son of the jeweler, told the Nice Matin paper. “We’ve had it with being targeted by robbers.”

Good for France.

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