PUMPKIN-CARVING DAD SUBDUES INTRUDER

An Arlington, Texas, man carving jack-o-lanterns for Halloween with his 7-year-old daughter stabbed a man with a knife after he broke into their home and held down the intruder until police arrived. The suspect stole a car from a nearby gas station on Tuesday evening, crashed it and then ran into a neighborhood to try to elude officers. Brian Hackney was carving pumpkins with his daughter when the carjacking suspect ran into his home and began rifling through his wife’s purse. Hackney said he had a knife readily in hand and confronted the intruder, stabbing him in the back. A neighbor called 911 while Hackney held down the intruder until police arrived. The father and daughter were not injured in the incident. The suspect was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
* Doctor: “How’d these pumpkin guts get into this stab would?”
* Dad’s a hero, but I’d like to know how you confront somebody by stabbing them in the back.
* The suspect is lucky this guy didn’t carve a jack-o-lantern face on him.
* Now the 7-year-old knows why we say Halloween is scary.
* With my luck I’d be dying Easter Eggs when the intruder broke in.
* Or it’d be Christmas and all I could do would be to gift-wrap the guy.