Couple Make Burglar Clean Up at Gunpoint

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Couple Make Burglar Clean Up at Gunpoint

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A burglar in Montgomery chose the wrong family to mess with, literally. Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon returned home on Tuesday after a week away to find that thieves had emptied almost everything the family of five owned, Tiffany McKinnon said through tears.

"Tears just rolled down my face as I walked in and saw everything gone and piles of trash all over my home," she said.

Adrian McKinnon sent his wife to see her sister while he inspected the piles left behind. As he walked back into the sunroom, a man walked through the back door straight into him, Tiffany McKinnon told the Montgomery Advertiser in a story Thursday.

"My husband Adrian caught the thief red-handed in our home," she said. "And what is even crazier, the man even had my husband's hat sitting right on his head."

Adrian McKinnon held the suspect, 33-year-old Tajuan Bullock, at gunpoint and told him to sit on the floor until he decided what to do.

"We made this man clean up all the mess he made, piles of stuff, he had thrown out of my drawers and cabinets onto the floor," Tiffany McKinnon said.

When police arrived, Bullock complained about being forced to clean the home at gunpoint.

"This man had the nerve to raise sand about us making him clean up the mess he made in my house," she said. "The police officer laughed at him when he complained and said anybody else would have shot him dead."

Capt. Huey Thornton, a police spokesman, said police arrested Bullock at 2 p.m. Tuesday on burglary and theft charges. He was being held in the Montgomery County Detention Facility on a $30,000 bond.

"The victims were lucky in this case to be able to catch the suspect in the act and hold him until police arrived," Thornton said.

Information from: Montgomery Advertiser.
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Pretty funny until a lawyer get's a hold of the case and sues the homeowner for imprisonment at gun point on behalf of the "innocent" thief.

While the majority of amercans think the bad guy had it coming, a few opportunists will jump on it for a buck.
 
I'm a lawyer, or was one in a past life. There might be an attempt at a claim for something, but it won't be unlawful imprisonment. Any claim for that should be dismissed early.
 
David Jimerson said:
No case. The homeowner is legally entitled to do so.
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So it's legal for a homeowner to force someone to clean his/her house at gunpoint? If I'd have known that I would have saved a lot of money on house cleaning sevices.:shocked:

When it comes to frivolous stupidity I have enormous faith in our legal system and some of the people that make their living in it to work the loop holes.
 
While I understand you can hold on to the intruder, the problem is in the forced labor of cleaning up after himself. Though deserved, that is not legal and a lawyer making a name for himself will jump all over it. Wouldn't be surprised to see the ACLU get involved on the side of the poor, innocent slave/thief...

Ok, that's getting to political. Back to my stamp collection......:Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
I'd say that the homeowner forced the man to pick up after himself as apposed to simply clean his house.

It definitely wasn't overly cruel (but unusual).
 
Consider this... the homeowners could have legally shot and killed the intruder with fewer objections than are being raised here.
 
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