MAN BUYS GUN, SHOOTS BURGLAR HOURS LATER

After five burglaries in six years, a retired Maine lobsterman bought a gun to defend himself and ended up shooting an intruder hours later. Sixty-seven-year-old Harvey Lembo bought a 1941 revolver Monday. Just past midnight Tuesday, he was awakened and saw a big shadow. Lembo says he climbed into his wheelchair and found an intruder near where he kept his pills. Lembo says he ordered the man to stay where he was while he called police, but he says the man bolted toward the front door and Lembo shot him in the shoulder. Forty-five-year-old Christopher Wildhaber was charged with burglary and violating probation and was ordered held without bail.
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* So – what’s the tally this year? One good shooting story vs. how many bad ones? Anybody keeping score?
* I like it when something you buy pays for itself right away.
* 5 burglaries in 6 years? Was there anything left to steal?
* Seniors will endure a lot, but try to take away their meds, and you’re in for it.
* The only mistake the man made was saying the burglar was on the way towards the door.
* These days, this is where the burglar sues you.
* That should have come out: “He moved quickly and I was afraid he was going to attack me, so I let him have it.”
* I’ll be damned. I thought of Maine as a gorgeous forest with a great coast. Turns out it’s a crime-ridden shooting gallery.