Karen Dolley, 43, woke up at midnight to the sound of a man's voice, "leapt out of bed, turned on the lights and saw him standing in her living room."
[S]he immediately attacked, punching him about 10 times and cornering him in her bedroom. She reached for her gun in a nearby drawer, but she accidentally opened the wrong drawer.... She reached for her backup weapon, a Japanese-styled sword called ninjato, which she keeps near her bed...The police arrived 2 minutes after she called, and the guy, Jacob Wessel, apologized as they were taking him away.
Dolley is only upset that the intruder ruined her sleep and angered her cat.
“At the end of the day, I’m glad to know that even if I wake up in the middle of the night, I’m not going down without a fight,” Dolley said.
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More white on white violence.
I like the cut of her gib.
W@as that before or after he used it against her?
I wonder if she considers herself a feminist.
Sounds like a scene from "Pulp Fiction".
Why do they want women unarmed?
The story would have had a much better ending, if she had reached into the drawer with the gun.
This is a none too implicit attack on every woman who has not successfully fought off her attacker. In some ways it's worse than Ben Carson's comments on the Oregon shooting. She should apologize for her actions. It wouldn't surprise me if she were a Republican or an NRA member. Is this the example we want our daughters to emulate?
One of the first things I do when I move into a new home, or help a friend, is to examine the doors.
American doors are not designed for security. That is an upgrade you can ask for, but most people don't ask, and most builders don't care.
Go to your door, and take out the bolts holding your striker plate on the jamb. If they are one inch long, you have what is known as an insecure door, and a favorite of all home burglars. The burglar puts his back to the door, lifts his leg and kicks backward, and the door opens. It doesn't make much noise, and most people don't arm their alarm when they are inside the home, so this is a great system for thieves.
Now, to fix this, is to understand door jambs. behind the facial board is two to three 2x4's. What you want to do is get some six inch screws, and a striker plate that has four holes in it spaced out. You'll have to chisel the opening on the facial board a bit larger, and this is quite easy.
You take the long screws and install the new striker plate. The plate now is one with the 2x4's and not one with the facial board.
Knife control!
Good for her. That's what a real feminist looks like. Yes, she probably has a Bud K catalog on her coffee table but she came out swinging. No trigger warnings required.
Leave it to "AReasonableMan" to be racist in the first comment.
"...the guy, Jacob Wessel, apologized as they were taking him away."
For what? For bothering her cat, or for soiling his pants in her bedroom?
God made all men but Samuel Colt made them equal. Japanese swordsmiths did the same for that woman.
Kinda neat to see a story where the police arrived in two minutes. They can come in handy when they are able to move fast.
I interpret ARM's comment to mean that a proper feminist should have cowered and let herself be raped so she can be a victim.
Yeah, she must have been crazy, paranoid, to have a gun, in her house, where she could reach it? And a sword, bonkers. Boy I bet she would have felt silly if he cornered her in the bathroom.
Ultimately, ARM, the thing that makes that whole fancy ridiculous is your willingness to jump down inside people's heads and help them think. Did you ever see Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes? Remember Denis Leary talking about how he didn't necessarily intend to run down the street naked covered in bacon but that he needed to know that he had the right to the right to do it?
Why do you want to second guess people? Whether they're right or wrong, do you not have your own life to live? Do you want to be liable for making the right call for other people? Do you really want that power? Ah, I slay myself...
Cat lady 1, cat burglar 0
I think the moral is actually, "Don't mess with roller derby chicks."
Always good advice.
Close-set eyes.
TreeJoe said...
I like the cut of her gib.
"gib 2
n. A male cat, especially a castrated one."
The irony, it burns.
Who was he talking to?
I think she had him cowed with the punches and it wouldn't have mattered what weapon she pulled out.
Sure hope she didn't address the perp in a shrill voice.
She needed an assault rifle too.with a 30 shot magazine.. He might have had friends.
As Tokygawa Ietsu said: "We've got to keep katanas out of the hands of private citizens."
Self defense. Can't get much more creatively anachronistic than that.
@William -
In future, please keep your comments to yourself. I was drinking a blueberry smoothie when I read your post. Desktop is now a purple mess and keyboard ruined.
If she had pulled her gun out first the story might have had an even happier ending.
I suspect, Birkel, that he was being sarcastic or trying to amuse, not racist.
I enjoyed the understated visual of this:
, but there was a brief scare when the intruder reached his hand into a pocket. That's when Dolley applied more pressure into the sword and told him to stop moving.
I see the ninjato poking his Adam's Apple
The sword is mightier than no sword.
I'm still processing "Society for Creative Anachronism."
Moon-walking Roman centurions unite! You have nothing to lose, but your flint, arrowhead-tipped ICBM's!
I bet she's an S.M. Stirling reader.
Bob Ellison: Kinda neat to see a story where the police arrived in two minutes. They can come in handy when they are able to move fast.
Perp's from Greenwood, a town of about 50,000. I'm surprised neither that the police arrived in two minutes nor that the perp apologized (I'm from that part of the country too).
Some day we'll wake up and realize that urban living is toxic to social ties and that it's impossible to scale law enforcement with population density without introducing exactly the militarization that people are finally starting to worry about. Hyperdense urban environments may have been a necessary evil in the early to middle history of the industrial age, when economies of scale meant putting raw materials, processes, and people in the same place at the same time. In a world where even manufacturing means 3D printing and cheap CNC routers, there's no need to accept the urban dog-eat-dog world and its social decay.
I wonder how long it took her to get back to sleep after that.
This story reminds me of a guy I knew in my college's conservative club, who said he was learning to shoot a cross bow. I asked why. He said, Well, people keep calling me a militarist reactionary, so I decided to go them one better and become a reactionary militarist.
AReasonableMan said...
"More white on white violence."
If she would have just laid there quietly and not resorted to violence all would have been better. Stupid people with their swords and guns. And doesn't she know progressives need more female rape victims? She could have been a star! Who told her to take care of herself anyways.
I am still trying to slice this baloney.
A "two minute police response", At least she did not have to hurry them on by stating "I have two halves of a burglar in my home. Please send the HAZMAT unit."
So, she did not need the gun. Another case where gun ownership had no effect on the outcome of an attack.
Sam L.,
You should use a proper definition of racist. "AReasonableMan" immediately commented on the race of the parties when that appears not to have mattered to the events in question. "AReasonableMan" may not like his own racism, but it reveals itself.
Liberals are not good people with unsound policies. They are what they pretend to abhor.
David,
I encourage you to put a sign where people can see it, that informs them of your anti-gun stance. Be specific that you own no firearms.
David, not everybody would have the foresight to have a sword by the bed. What she needed was a gun in each drawer.
Fighting off a rapist with a gun or a sword may be effective. But what would have been better is if we had taught the rapist not to rape.
I went to a few SCA meetings in college. There were a few hotties there. And supposedly anyone and everyone could get laid at Penzig. However, you had to dress in medieval costume like Augie Farks in Role models. Which is kind of a negative.
"she reached for her backup weapon, a Japanese-styled sword called ninjato, which she keeps near her bed... The police arrived 2 minutes after she called, and the guy, Jacob Wessel, apologized as they were taking him away."
Why is someone who trained in medieval combat using a ninjato as opposed to, say, a broadsword. That is decidedly anachronistic. All the people at SCA are looking down their noses at her choice of weaponry.
However, the more important point being, THE POLICE ARRIVED 2 MINUTES AFTER SHE CALLED. first, that is really good time for cops. Usually you have to wait a lot more than 2 minutes to get cops to come to your door. However, two minutes is more than enough time for someone to kill you. For that two minutes, or the time it takes cops to reach your door ,you are on your own.
And its generally better to have a weapon than not if someone is trying to rape/kill you.
Another paranoid gun nut. America is lousy with them. Doesnt she know she is in more danger from the gun than from an attacker? And besides, rapes not so bad, lots of women survive just fine.
David said...
"So, she did not need the gun. Another case where gun ownership had no effect on the outcome of an attack."
This is either sarcasm, or what passes for an argument on the left.
Hard to tell the difference these days.
One should not speak poorly of victims for the same reason as not doing so of the ignorant.
In the same way, being a victim is not something worthy of praise, nor admiration. At best it is an accidental state.
Two minutes is what take it takes for even a bad markswoman to hit a man-size target twenty feet away in one out of six shots in seventy percent of polls.
Wessel was sent to the hospital because he was high on an unknown substance, according to police reports.
He actually apologized on his way out, Dolley said. Now, Dolley is only upset that the intruder ruined her sleep and angered her cat.
That doesn't sound much like a rapist. More like a guy who was so high he didn't know where he was.
Eric said...
"Wessel was sent to the hospital because he was high on an unknown substance, according to police reports.
He actually apologized on his way out, Dolley said. Now, Dolley is only upset that the intruder ruined her sleep and angered her cat."
"That doesn't sound much like a rapist. More like a guy who was so high he didn't know where he was."
That was my take. SCA people are generally nice and fun to hang out with. They are also nerds to the Nth degree. This story got clicks because CHICK WITH A SWORD!
"American doors are not designed for security."
Few suburban houses are designed for security against forced entry. If you reinforce the striker plate, you've still got all those windows "protected" with a crescent lock. Unless you're willing to protect all the windows with "burglar bars" (which may trap you in a fire), what's the point in making the exterior doors strong enough to resist a good kick?
(And for what it's worth, more than a few older suburban houses werebuilt with hollow exterior doors. And, some were built with sheathing only in the corners; in these, you could gain entry with your bare hands: just rip off the vinyl siding and then punch your way through the wallboard, and you're in.)
"American doors are not designed for security."
Hence the dog.
And the shotgun.
Peter, if you fix your doors, you will defeat 99% of meth addicts. That's all they know. They won't break windows, but they will crawl through an open one.
American doors are like open windows in complexity.
You seem to know a lot about meth, Coupe.
But this reminds me:
When ninja-to are outlawed, only ninja will have ninja-to.
Hey, wait...
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