Bounty hunters, fugitive shoot each other dead at car dealership in Texas

[highland145]

Dang. Probably not good for business. Fortunately no one else was shot.

video...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/3...ch-other-dead-at-car-dealership-in-texas.html

 

[SMOGZINN]

If you had ever shopped at this dealership you would know that dying in a hail of bullets would be a mercy compared to dealing with their sales staff.

 

[Carson Dyle]

... for a failure to appear on a drug charge

Fucking idiots. Too bad they're dead, because they should have been locked up for life for pulling shit like that around people.

* Edit *

> was facing several charges that included assaulting a law enforcement officer.

Which means he must have said "Hey, why you arresting me?!" when the cops handcuffed him.

 

[highland145]

Well clearly he was...armed and dangerous.

 

[Humpy]

Bounty hunters don't seem much different than the criminals to me. Illigitimate wannabe cops. I feel they probably got what was coming to them, luckily without killing someone else.

Best part of the story is the seven d bags charged with murder in TN.

 

[highland145]

Best part of the story is the seven d bags charged with murder in TN.

Targeted the wrong car and it was a good idea to kill someone while doing it. Brilliant.

 

[theeedude]

Good thing no innocent bystanders got shot. Hopefully the other bounty hunter is charged with reckless endangerment.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Good thing no innocent bystanders got shot. Hopefully the other bounty hunter is charged with reckless endangerment.

"Stew, he's going into the dealership. What should we do?"

"Go get him. You've got your guns, don't you? Pussies."

 

[Thebobo]

Our prices will kill you!
Hurry while there's still time!
We offer the best bang for the buck!
Shoot us an offer we can't refuse!
We won't let you leave alive without a deal!

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[JulesMaximus]

Pulling a gun on someone is a good way to get yourself killed.

 

[highland145]

Pulling a gun on someone is a good way to get yourself killed.

And the bad guy even dropped his before killing the bounty hunters.

 

[mikeymikec]

A bounty hunter. Two of them even. After googling "Corpus Christi", I initially assumed the company they worked for was called "Corpus Christi", which seemed as ridiculous as the notion that bounty hunters would still exist outside of the wild west, sci-fi and space operas.

Imagining stating that as your profession when you go on a date. You may as well have announced that you were a space nazi or a jedi, IMO, but perhaps my idea that it's completely fucking ridiculous is because I think I have a good bead on things.

 

[highland145]

which seemed as ridiculous as the notion that bounty hunters would still exist

The guy skipped on a $50K bond. The bondsman is on the hook for the $$ if he isn't picked up.

 

[mikeymikec]

The guy skipped on a $50K bond. The bondsman is on the hook for the $$ if he isn't picked up.

That doesn't help to encourage a perception of "this is normal and makes sense"

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

which seemed as ridiculous as the notion that bounty hunters would still exist outside of the wild west, sci-fi and space operas.

It is ridiculous, but it definitely exists in a very fuzzy grey legal territory. Shooting people is generally not in the cards but as you can see, it happens. This is kinda right up there with vehicle repos, you're just repoing people instead of cars (roughly equal chance of being shot).

 

[highland145]

That doesn't help to encourage a perception of "this is normal and makes sense"

Very true.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Imagining stating that as your profession when you go on a date. You may as well have announced that you were a space nazi or a jedi, IMO, but perhaps my idea that it's completely fucking ridiculous is because I think I have a good bead on things.

If you work for a bail bondsman finding deadbeats who skip out, it's what you do. It's the press and people who don't realize this is a part of the business who are most likely to label them "bounty hunters". This goes on all across the country every single day, usually by people with more sense than to try to capture a guy with guns drawn in a business full of people.

 

[Darwin333]

This is a more fucked up story imho:

"Authorities in Tennessee say seven people they described as bounty hunters shot at four people in a car April 23 in Clarksville, killing one man and injuring another. It appears the larger group targeted the wrong vehicle and all seven have been indicted on first-degree murder charges. Not one of the men in the car was wanted on outstanding charges"

Even if there was a fugitive in the car how the hell do you defend shooting into it when there are 3 innocent people in it as well? And then to get the wrong freaking car, just fucking nuts. I'm glad they are facing charges, now if we can only hold the police to the same standards...

 

[highland145]

@Darwin333 The 1st story that comes to mind was the Cali manhunt and they fired 100 rounds into the car driven by the 2 women. "Oops."

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Bounty hunters are by rule guys who are desperate to carry a gun and try to impose their will on people. They tried to be cops and failed, they tried to by air marshals and failed, they tried to be private security and failed. Any job that does mental screening to weed out the real wingnuts before issuing weapons is out of their reach. After washing out of every selective position they migrate into bounty hunting because cops have rules they have to follow and bounty hunters get to ignore almost all of them, so they wind up worse than the guys they're chasing. Three fewer dangerous psychos on the street and no innocent bystanders hurt, that's a good result.