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10/25/2003 Archived Entry: "The drive-by vigilante"

CHIVALRY IS NOT DEAD. Nor is good-old American guts:

Police seek shooter who saved teen girl

A man was beating a 16-year-old girl with a pipe Wednesday morning on Detroit's west side.

Suddenly, the man was dead, shot several times by a passenger in a passing car.

Police are looking for the driver of the car and the gunman, who might not be a criminal suspect, but a much rarer species -- a drive-by vigilante.

I think we're supposed to cluck our tongues and say these mystery men should have done things differently, should have used their cell phones to call 911, should have used non-lethal force, shouldn't have shot unless they were personally threatened ... something.

But doesn't a Charles Bronson thrill run up your spine when you think about them, saving the girl then vanishing into the night?

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"We’re not pioneers anymore."

"What are we, Jack? If we’re not pioneers, what have we become? What do you call people who, when they’re faced with a condition of fear, do nothing about it – they just run and hide?"

"Civilized?"

"No."

-- Dialog from the 1974 movie Death Wish

Posted by Claire @ 12:13 AM CST
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