Does not end well for said carjacker.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/justice/2015/04/04/pkg-woman-jumps-on-car-hood-attempted-carjacking.wsb
http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/04/05/gun-toting-good-samaritan-thwarts-carjacking-georgia-car-wash
Being in Smyrna, I wonder if the good Samaritans were using Glocks. :o
My exact thoughts.
Is this considered a good shoot because the woman was in danger, being on the hood of the car and all? Just wondering how the law would see this.
I am curious about the legal ramifications of this too- a car can be considered a deadly weapon, and the article stated the hijacker was being charged with aggravated assault, so it sounds good for the CHL shooter. I wonder how the process will play out on his end?
Please, for the love of all that is holy, let race not be brought up on this one.
I have to tell you, in my opinion if you’re unarmed and getting car jacked, just let the car go. For the love of God, do not do a TJ Hooker “lets jump on the hood and hang on” kinda move.
Both parties in this crime went “Full Retard”, the CC guy might or might not have made a good decison by getting between them.
Beat me to it. If my kid isn’t strapped in the carseat in back, they can have the damn car. That’s what I pay insurance for every month…
LE sources claim a Glock 18 was used…
Serious or joking? Does the bad guy have a vertical line of gunshot wounds?
I might fight you for the Fuzzy Dice on the rear view mirror though.
I’m not so sure about that, I think Dirty Harry and maybe even Starsky and Hutch perfected that technique a decade before TJ Hooker. 
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What led to her being on the hood? Did the suspect just jump in the car at the car wash and try to drive off or did he fight the owner for the keys?
A case could be made that the owner put herself in danger by jumping on the hood to prevent the drive off?
Five bucks says the story is… she was being affectionate with the car and the door was open with the keys in the ignition.
Milfmasta:
If you watched the entire video and paid attention to the narration you would have heard and seen that the “youts” in the burgundy van pulled into the vacuum spot next to the white coupe owned by the female. She got out and started to walk away (my guess is to get change or fiddle with the vacuum machine, she may have left the key in the car. One yout jumped into the white coupe and started it and backed out. Female saw her car moving away she went after it and jumped on the hood (Dirty Harry style but without the M29 .44mag). Yout kept driving and the “good samaritan” saw the whole thing and started to give chase on foot while drawing his blaster from what looked like the appendix location. He shot at the driver (don’t know how many times) and hit him at least once in the shoulder. The yout fell out, stumbled around a little and collapse in the street. His homies in the van took off and left him. Popo still looking for the van and the others. The yout that got shot was taken to hospital and arrested.
BTW, a mutual friend of ours was working in that county until he retired two years ago. The carwash is less than two miles from the Glock factory.
Just last week, another yout carjacked a vehicle and was chased by the PD. He lost control of the stolen vehicle and crashed sideway into a bank sign post, which was made out of I-beam steel. The I-beam sawed the car almost in half, the perp lost. So we can say that: Bank Sign 1 - Thug 0.
Thanks. The footage from Fox that I saw yesterday only showed the woman on the hood and the CCW guy drawing his gun.
Not really a car jacking IMO and certainly not something I’d shoot someone or go hood surfing over
Those that say, “let the car go…that is what I have insurance for…” have not ever had or known of someone that DID get their car stolen and had to wrangle with the insurance company afterwards.
I know two people of whom this happened and neither ended up with a replacement car anywhere near what they had before.
The insurance company tries to give you the least it can for your car and takes their sweet time doing so.
Same thing I was thinking. I was under the belief that a carjacking required some forcible taking. Like yanking someone out of a car, or using a weapon to force them to get out.
I wouldn’t have opened up either.
Actually I have. And whether it is a theft or accident the insurance companies will treat it the same. Now imagine, this. The women looses a few thousand dollars due to devaluation of the car. Or she gets pulled underneath it, run over and ends up a cripple for life or dead.
Which option sounds better?
I understand totally your reason, if it was my car I probably wouldn’t do the “hood surf” either. But some people that’s all they have, their vehicle is the biggest cash investment in their whole life. She’s probably making $400 payment for 60 months and that’s all she’s got. As for the good samaritan, we probably should go easy on him for doing what he did. Maybe he’s had some training, maybe he didn’t, he did the best he could under the circumstances. I don’t think we should hang him for that.
I was going to make basically the same comment as IG. Losing money is bad, but it’s not nearly as bad as being dead, crippled, or in jail (for a wrongful shoot).
I had my car broken into just two months ago, and all I got the insurance company to pay for was the glass. I lost around $1000 worth of household stuff. With a $500 deductible my agent told me I would lose more in higher rates in the future than the $500 at most I’d get for filing a theft claim. I hate, hate that logic, but that’s how it often works. (I also learned the hard way that Salt Lake City is not the safe and nice place I mistakenly thought it was - the police officer who took my report, while polite, was no more interested in my break-in than Detroit police would have been, and I had other SLC issues not relevant here.)
The main thing I came away with is that if I’m on a jury and I’m convinced the defendant is guilty of stealing, or worse, I will happily vote for the max sentence.