ATLANTA -- A well-armed couple opened fire with an assault rifle and pistol early Friday morning on some car thieves in southwest Atlanta.

The couple at a home in the 1900 block of Childress Drive told police that after somebody tried to steal their car last week, they rigged up a homemade alarm in their carport using string and cans.


Police told Channel 2 Action News reporter Ryan Young that about 2 a.m. Friday the cans started making noise, indicating intruders were in their carport. The couple swung into action.

The husband picked up a pistol and ran outside to confront the thieves. The wife grabbed an AK-47 assault rife and joined her husband outside.

They found several men driving off in their car.

Homeowner Opens Fire

They told police when the car thieves tried to shoot at them, they opened fire with his pistol and her AK-47.

The thieves took off, leaving the couple's car behind.

When police arrived they found shell casings littering the driveway and front yard, and the couple's car riddled with bullet holes.


There was no blood at the scene so police don't think any of the thieves were hit.

There's no word on if the homeowners will face any charges.

Graycap23 said:

They were protecting what was theirs. shit no charged should be pressed

they shot their car to bits and the thieves got away

People with that kind of aim shouldn't be allowed to own guns.

IAintTheOne said:

Shit, here a homeowner was charged with assauly cause a burglar slipped on his steps - it was icy and he hadn't salted/put gravel on them.

BlueZebra said:

My thinking exactly!

Teacher said:

you gotta be shittin' me

IAintTheOne said:

Don't you know about the famous case in which a burglar got several hundred thousand dollars, because he couldn't get out of the garage of a family that was on holidays and had to eat dog food and drink soft drinks for a week or something?
Now that's what I call crazy!

IAintTheOne said:

Nope. The court fined him I think, apparently it was reckless of him to not expect "visitors" in the night.

Hundreds of bullet casings and no one was hit, these guys can't be American surely, if they were at least one "friendly" would have been hit




For the purposes of P+R this is sarcasm given the report today in the UK news about "Blue on Blue " incidents and the fact that the US and UK WONT be sharing unit tracking information in Afghanistan.

A string-and-can alarm? LMFAO, brilliant.

"Get your machine gun, honey - the cans are a-rattlin'!!!"

RodeoSchro said:

Good, isn't it? They spend probably thousands of dollars on guns but do that kind of alarm

RodeoSchro said:

too much

Teacher said:

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

I am glad no one was out walking there dog when it all went down.

shanti0608 said:

They wouldn't have hit that either.

Teacher said:

I don't know, they would not be aiming at them.

shanti0608 said:

Aaah, point.

So let's see...

* Thieves got away... to perhaps arm up and come back for a revenge sneak attack at their leisure.
* The car the couple supposedly sought to protect is now destroyed... at their own hands.

Yeah. I'd say that worked out well.

...And I hope they have the right papers for that automatic assault rifle, otherwise they're up the creek.

Lammastide said:

It's Georgia, they probably got it as a wedding present.

How pimp is his broad, though?

MuthaFunka said:

Reminds me of Reba McIntyre from the movie "Tremors".

uPtoWnNY said:

Sounds like these homeowners are a couple of fucking idiots.

Vendetta1 said:

I wish they could be charged with that on top of the other charges. It might make the streets of their city a little safer.

Graycap23 said:

Why do I doubt this is how it really went down? I don't think it's common for car thieves to shoot at folks they're stealing from as they're driving off.

Fauxie said:

AND...

Somebody's shooting at me with an AK-47. Should I speed away in the car I've just successfully stolen, or get out and try to outrun the spray of bullets?

I agree with you. The whole thing sounds fishy.
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uPtoWnNY said:

LOL, what a GREAT movie. In fact, I think it is a PERFECT science-fiction movie.

"Hand me that cannon fuse."

"Why do you have cannon fuse?"

"For my cannon."

Love it!

This ghetto stuff sounds like a skit for SNL. Seriously tho.....what if they had killed the thieves? How the hell could you sleep knowing you killed somebody over a damned car (riddled with bullet holes since your aim sucks). I know its their property. but nobody deserves to die over a hunk of metal and plastic. heck...they would have been better off letting them take it and getting the insurance money....since I doubt the insurance company is gonna reimburse them for the new bullet holes made at the hands of the owners.

I'm not against criminals like this being shot, in fact I think it would be a great deterrent

but perhaps there was a better way to keep the car from starting in the first place, like disabling the ignition system when putting the car in for the night

Shows the mentality of the world when some people want to applaud this kind of stupidity