Do you want to know how badly what passes for journalism sucks these days? A teen age thug decided to commit an armed robbery.  He arranged to purchase some sneakers and instead of producing cash he produced a gun and stole the sneakers.  The transaction took place in a SUV in New York City. The crook fled one way the driver the other, that is until he turned around and ran over the robber with his car. The robber lost an arm and his gun due to the collision. What is the best the New York Post can come with?

Crook’s arm ripped off after failed robbery attempt

Oh, how the mighty have fallen, this is the newspaper that gave us:

“Headless Body in Topless Bar” 

it ran on The Post’s front page on April 15, 1983.

The perfect headline screamed to be unleashed:

Robber Disarmed During Robbery

What dreck.

Because this is New York the police charged the driver of the car.  They sure have a strange sense of justice in New York.

In Texas, there is no such thing as attempted robbery, doesn’t exist, you can’t do it. Once the threat to take property is coupled with a gun you have Aggravated Robbery.  It doesn’t matter if the crook steals anything.

Anybody trying to stop an Aggravated Robbery during its commission or during the suspect’s immediate flight is entitled to use deadly force to stop the crime or prevent the escape. Parking a small SUV on the chest of an armed robber is acceptable behavior among polite company in Texas.

Stories about the disconnect between Texas and Yankee law have been around forever.  Two yankee lawyers were giving Dick DeGuerin a Texas criminal defense attorney a hard time by pointing out that Texas hanged horse thieves and let murders go.  DeGuerin replied, “That’s because in Texas no horse ever needed stealing but there are some people that need killing.”

Davy Crockett said it best, “You all can go to hell, I’m going to Texas.