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A tale of two home invasions

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This is a tale of two home invasions.

First, some highlights from this article.

May 1, 2015

 Adrian Anthony, 21; Demetre Brown, 22; Alexander Dupree, 24; and Michael Pugh, 23; were sentenced Friday, after a jury on March 10 found them guilty of a host of felony charges, including rape, criminal deviate conduct, carjacking, criminal confinement, aggravated battery and robbery.


The convictions were handed down about 18 months after the men broke into a house on East 79th Street, ransacked the home, sexually assaulted resident Eileen Potenza and her adult daughter and left with many of their belongings. The Indianapolis Star typically does not name people who are or may have been victims of sexual assault, but Potenza spoke publicly about the ordeal after the verdicts were handed down. 

Eileen Potenza and her husband, Carl, both read emotional statements in court before Borges handed down the sentences. Carl Potenza, who has a physical problem that requires him to wear leg braces, was beaten up and held captive in a bedroom during the burglary.


 

                 Gang raped mother and daughter

 
Carl Potenza said the brutal violation of his wife and daughter continue to haunt him. Another daughter, who was not home at the time, also was traumatized and is in counseling, he said. 

Still, Carl Potenza said, the "two hours of hell" was followed by an amazing outpouring of help and support from friends and strangers touched by their horrific experience. 

He concluded his statement by saying "we don't want these guys to ever have a chance to do something like this again." 

Turning to the four defendants — who sat handcuffed, shackled and connected at the waist by heavy chains — the preschool teacher asked: "When and why did your lives go so terribly wrong that you thought that this behavior was OK?" 

Answers to some of her questions were revealed in court Friday. Prosecutors noted all four young men had criminal records, both as juveniles and adults, before the home 2013 invasion. All had extensive histories of drug and alcohol abuse. And all had histories of violating court orders and prison rules, as well as failed attempts at rehabilitation. 

But the horrific "nature of the crimes," Borges said, clearly outweighed any mitigating circumstances that would have justified reducing the sentences. She noted the men did not just attack and rob the family, they humiliated the victims over the course of hours. 

According to graphic details of the crimes revealed during the trial in March, the four men and two friends drove to the Potenza home early on Oct. 29, 2013. Eileen and her daughter said in court that they each were forced to drive to an ATM to get money. Eileen Potenza was shot twice — in the leg and in the ankle — for trying to escape. 

Carl Potenza was restrained in the bedroom with a blanket over him throughout the home invasion. 

Anthony admitted that he shot Eileen Potenza and sexually assaulted her in a car, after they had left the home to go to the ATM. At least four of the men sexually assaulted the couple's daughter.

Some of the same men also are charged in another brutal home invasion that happened five days earlier in a young couple's home on North Spring Mill Road, less than three miles away. The two vicious attacks left residents across the city on edge. 

Anthony also was convicted in April in the murder of construction worker Robbie Gibson, during a Nov. 27, 2013, armed robbery on North Gray Street — about a month after he and the other men burglarized and robbed two Far-Northside homes. He is awaiting sentencing in that case, which will add even more time in prison. 

Spells also pleaded guilty to burglary in the Spring Mill Road home invasion. He faces a sentence of 50 to 80 years in prison on all charges in the two cases and is scheduled to be sentenced July 29.

 

Next, contrast the Potenza's story with these highlights from this article. 

September 30, 2015

FOLKSTON, Ga. -- Two sisters fought back against the man police say attacked them inside of their own home, killing him in the process. 

Police said it happened about 7 p.m. Tuesday night in a Charlton County, Georgia home on Cedar Ridge Road. That's when Johnathan Green allegedly barged in and attacked before one of the sisters fatally shot him.

 

Green's body was sent to Savannah for an autopsy.

Johnathan Green was shot to death by a woman police say he attacked. His family says otherwise.  

Taylor said both sisters are over the age of 65. One moved in to take care of the other, he told First Coast News. 

First Coast News spoke to Green's family, who said Green was mentally incompetent and would have never done something like authorities are alleging.

 

As the cliché goes: when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.  Speaking of mentally incompetent, thank God those sisters had, "common sense," to have a gun and know how to use it, to borrow President Obama's favorite gun phrase.

Of course, you can agree to give up your natural right of self defense, and the Second Amendment that was written to stop the government from infringing upon this natural right, in the hopes that the government will protect you, like in Chicago, where they have severe gun control laws.

If you really do not want to be a victim in your own home, then get an equalizer that can stop an attacker, or multiple attackers.  In my experience, that equalizer is a firearm, especially if you are a woman over 65, or disabled.  But for the love of God, get good training on how to use it, and how to safely practice using it.  Then practice regularly, keep it handy, and away from small children, until they can learn how to safely use it, like this 14 year old.  Please read my article:  Guide for Learning to Use a Sidearm to Defend Yourself, Your Loved Ones, and Your Property, Should a Race War Break Out.

Next, answer the following important question: HOW LONG ARE THE SCREWS SECURING THE HINGES OF YOUR FRONT DOOR?  

Go unscrew one and measure it now, friends.  It will take less than one minute.

If they are less than 3 inches, or you do not have a good deadbolt, then you have a one-kick-door.   We will see how you do when a vehicle loaded with bad hombres pulls into your driveway...and a moment later are all in your home with guns to your head.  

We need to take responsibility for our own safety, and to have our mind, body, and equipment ready at all times. We all need to work together to create an environment that is hostile to bad guys.  We don't need more gun-free zones like San Bernadino (14 killed),  Ft. Hood (13 killed), Sandy Hook (27 killed), Columbine High School (13 killed), and Utøya Norway, (77 killed), where psychopaths can mow us down at their leisure.  The hope that criminals and psychopaths will not obtain or use weapons because it is illegal is a fantasy.  Again, just look at Chicago, and Paris.

Don't EVER open the door for strangers.  Always keep your doors locked, install door jamb armor with 3-1/2 stainless screws, always use the intercom when someone rings, always carry a weapon, and get the training and find the will to use it.

    "An armed society is a polite society, " -Heinlein.

Finally, if you know someone special that likes the finer things in life, and lives in an area where they may need to defend those finer things...and their life...[against multiple armed home invaders] I offer the following to help you even the odds:

 

$4252   mrs_horseman's recipe for, "Can-of-Whoop-Ass."

$1300   Benelli M2 Tactical Shotgun with Ghost Ring Sights 
$115   Mesa Tactical Urbino® Pistol Grip Stock for Benelli M2, 12½ inch length of pull
$75   Nordic Components +2 Rounds Extenion Tube for Benelli M2
$100   Meprolight Tru-Dot Tritium Sights for Benelli Shotguns with Ghost Ring Sights 
$300 Surefire DSF-M1/M2 LED Forend WeaponLight for Benelli M2
$53 URBAN-SENTRY Hybrid Sling Complete Kit
$132 GG&G M2 Charging Handle & Tac Pad
$40 Urban ERT 30 round shotgun shell belt
$67 8" by 10" Semi-Concealable Style Covert Rifle Plates Carrier
$220 Level IV Stand-Alone Lightweight 10" by 12" Regular Shooters Cut Front
$220 Level IV Stand-Alone Lightweight 10" by 12" Rectangular Back Plate
$430 = 2 x $215 250rds 12 Ga. Winchester Military 2 3/4" 9 Pellet 00 Buckshot
$400 =2 x $200 250rds 12 Gauge Remington Slugger 2 3/4" 1oz. Rifled Slug
$800 =$400 x 2 Weekends of Tactical shotgun class

Peace!

 

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Wed, 12/09/2015 - 21:30 | 6902208 10mm
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Benelli's are proven.  But they are no match for a reload firefight vs a VEPR 12,period. Vepr's are battle shotguns,period. AK style platform, loads like an AR. CSPECS makes great US mags. Vepr mags above 5rnds are pricey, but price on life is moot.

Thu, 12/10/2015 - 04:51 | 6903222 dchang0
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I've seen VEPRs and Saiga 12s and Akdals all fail in one big way: the shotshells deform in the magazine over time due to the constant spring pressure. This results in a failure to feed malfunction.

If you have a magazine full of shotshells just sitting there waiting for days, weeks, or years for a home invader, they will be squeezed into oval-cross-sections and WILL NOT FEED just when you need them most. This is even more true for the larger-capacity magazines.

In hot weather, this deformation happens even faster!

As a result of this one problem many of the guys I know running magazine-fed shotguns in 3-gun Open division have switched back to Benelli M2 Field shotguns with the stick-style speed loaders. The quad XRail is too heavy to swing/transition quickly, so the old-school stick-style loaders end up being the de-facto winner.

Thu, 12/10/2015 - 10:49 | 6903974 10mm
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Veprs,unlike the Saiga, has bolt hold open capabilities. Lock back the bolt,put mag in and keep it that way. I agree what your saying.The recoil springs are heavy. AKDALS are junk. But I reserve the Vepr for another battle other than home invasion. I didn't by it for home invasion.  More for the hoards coming. Another good tactical decision.  Place mags in rooms where only you know where they are.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:38 | 6901242 xizang777
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Our racist affirmative-action president has been busy the past 7 years, doing his best to divide America and to create racist class-envy.   Now that he has his fellow Kenyans worked up and anxious to attack whites, many whites are finally ready to push back.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:08 | 6901113 stiler
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For rape and murder it should be "flip it by Friday."

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:04 | 6901094 Dark Space
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Interestingly the dead fella was on 20 years probation related to a prior incident where he broke into an old lady's flat and choked her before breaking her thumb and then leaving for an unexplained reason. http://www.news4jax.com/news/local/man-shot-in-home-invasion-had-attacke...

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 16:52 | 6901031 Dragon HAwk
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Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree...

   repeat offenders means somebody didn't explain to them what would happen if they ever did that shit again..

 we need to work on the what will happen part..

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 16:23 | 6900900 Comte d'herblay
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The only penalty that will make others think twice and forget about their raping intentions, is for these 4 to be put in a room, tied dwon, while the husband gets an opportunity to use whatever weapon he wants to assure that they will never do it again.  Including a slide action shotgun, with ten shells in it. 

And no prosecution.  

All the other so-called penalties like prison with a shot at parole, are just a liberal society's band aid on a bleed out. 

 

Thu, 12/10/2015 - 03:26 | 6903151 dhengineer
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Just let the other cons have a shot at them.  Strip them naked (one at a time) and toss them into the Aryan Brotherhood cell-block.  Make their crimes known to all the boys beforehand with pictures and descriptions.  Tell the boys that there are four of the scumbag monkeys and that they can take all the time they want with each one.  There are no penalties, and all activity will be filmed and streamed live into the tiny cell where the next contestants are being held so they can hear the screams and watch the assfucking in real time, not to mention the final verrrrrry slow, verrrry painful hours of monkey death.  Draw straws for the next act. Toss the carcasses into the pen holding the guard dogs. 

You could probably sell the resulting tapes on Pay-per-view.  Or you could show the tapes in schools, as a sort of scared-straight class.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:54 | 6901307 knotjammin2
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This is a liberal family.  Some how they think it's their fault and I have met many just like them.  I would rather be in jail for having used an illegal firearm than to face my wife and daughter after they were bruttally raped.  Also, there would have only been one trial.  Mine.  Those four animals would not have made it out alive.  Semper Fi!!

 

Thu, 12/10/2015 - 00:49 | 6902941 Bernanke'sDaddy
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+Infinity

Thu, 12/10/2015 - 05:50 | 6903272 mkkby
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Remember the 3 S's -- shoot, shovel and shut up.

Thu, 12/10/2015 - 10:16 | 6903865 Buster Cherry
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Much easier to shoot, pick up the shell casing and.walk away.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:06 | 6901099 Dark Space
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Shotgun seems to kind. They raped his wife and daughter. A grapefruit spoon seems more appropriate - I could work on them for days with a grapefruit spoon if they hurt my wife or kid.

Thu, 12/10/2015 - 01:39 | 6903037 joego1
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How about a blunderbus filled with grapefruit spoons. No need to waste time.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:42 | 6901259 new game
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10-4, up close head shot, 308 180 gr...

while the other 3 watch and so on til ...

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 19:42 | 6901721 Never One Roach
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The tried and true Cherokee revenge works well I've read; tie the Bad Guy to a tree near an ants nest and pour some honey over their head.

 

NB: you can substitute, maple syrup, and it works just fine I suspect.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 21:53 | 6902300 tarabel
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Apache sleigh ride. Tie the perpetrator to your rear bumper by his ankles and then go four-wheeling through the cactus patch. 

Thu, 12/10/2015 - 07:39 | 6903353 Refuse-Resist
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Chimes in from the old south"  Mississppi wind chimes.

 

Ah America! So much regional color here! That's the kind of diversity I can fully support.

 

FUCK YEAH!

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:21 | 6901170 Mr.BlingBling
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Don't forget a few bags of plasma and an automatic defibrillator. Maybe a syringe of adrenaline too.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 16:13 | 6900843 Cthonic
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That's no hate crime, that's just begging for a red summer redux.  Put those animals down.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:44 | 6901267 TheRideNeverEnds
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They will put them down... for three hots and a cot for the rest of their natural likes.  Courtesy of the US taxpayer. 

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 23:49 | 6902760 Vendetta
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Ugh.... I could take care of em for the rest of their lives effectively with a clear conscience for less than $2.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 16:10 | 6900835 Tim Knight from...
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Something something Obama something something if he had a son something.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:57 | 6900772 Sledge750
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An armed populace is a polite populace.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:37 | 6900688 snodgrass
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Dis be razist! Dem rapin boys was just tryiing for some social justice in the face of whitey's white privilege. Da odder bro, well he killed out of hate and intolerance. Another example of white privilege. Killing blacks and getting away wif it.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:33 | 6900673 Lost in translation
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Not a fan of shotguns.

Limited range outdoors = limited effectiveness.  Slow to reload, heavy ammo.  Rifle > shotgun

Good performance indoors but clumsy in confined spaces, perp can grab barrel in room-clearing.  S/A pistol > shotgun

Just my opinion...

Thu, 12/10/2015 - 01:34 | 6903013 joego1
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My house is in thick woods shotguns are best here. A pistol is a damn good backup or 1st when you cant reach the long gun. You grab my long gun and you get pumelled just like army basic training with bayonet except without the tip.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 18:23 | 6901445 10mm
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Like my VEPR 12,easy reload with mags and it's 922r compliant. Built Russia tough. But that's reserved. The 10mm is on call 24/7.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 19:00 | 6901563 Collectivism Killz
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Love my glock 20, but now I sport my XDM 3.8 in .460 Rowland. Now that is a beast.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:19 | 6901163 Socratic Dog
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That looks lika an attempted suicide, barrel under the chin, missed his brain cage, shot his face off.  Angled too far forward.  Not as uncommon as you'd suppose.  Poor bastard.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:59 | 6901338 Citxmech
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I can't believe that SOB survived that shit. . .  JFC!

PS  Comparason of buckshot on gelatin:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZf_x8Esms

Check out the "000" footage.  

I would not feel sorry for myself with a shotty.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 18:08 | 6901379 Citxmech
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As long as you're watching slo-mo gelatin YouTubes - check out how the 30-06 fares:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8E138NgyFs

HFS!

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 16:27 | 6900887 hedgeless_horseman
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That is another fine demonstration, cthonic, of the, "limited effectiveness," of nine, twelve, or even fifteen .30 caliber (OO buck) pellets with each pull of the trigger on a 12 gauge shotgun.  Regarding, "slow to reload," note that the pieces of the target are in the air, as is the empty shell case, ejected from my pump action Benelli Nova H2O, mrs_horseman's M2 being even faster.

 

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:13 | 6901136 Trogdor
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It's probably worth noting that it's a good idea to make your first round in your home-defense shottie a Less-Than-Lethal round - like rubber ball or sandbag.  The reason is that should you have to put down a home invader and you end up in court, it's going to be a lot harder for the douchebag prosecutor to sell the idea that you were "a heavily armed and crazed individual just itching to murder someone with your scary scary gun."  The average monkey on a jury looking at a pistol-gripped Benelli is going to equate it with a "militarized" shotgun "made fer killin'" - much more so than your grandads 870 - so you need to be able to say you didn't really WANT to kill the POS (and the LTL round proves it) but he forced your hand ... and in all the confusion, I don't know how that first round ended up in the couch ;)

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 22:36 | 6902445 Chaos_Theory
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F-that.  Just buy a wood chipper and give your flower bed some fresh fertilizer. 

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 20:59 | 6902090 BidnessMan
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Thunder 5 with 410 shotgun shells in the first two chambers and .45 in third - fifth.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 19:24 | 6901643 Bernanke'sDaddy
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ABSOMOTHERFUCKINGLUTELY NOT.

 

Don't take this personally but to suggest anything like staggering your shotgun magazine with different rounds shows an utter lack of training and competence with the firearm. No way in hell are you gonna remember what you loaded and when when the SHTF. No fucking way. Most people wouldn't know when to load that first less lethal round in the magazine anyway (hint, it's loaded LAST). If you come across ANY firearms 'instructor' that suggests this, tell them I said they're not only a fucking moron but also a major liability and demand your Bernanke Bux back.

The thing with shotguns is that they're easy to shoot but VERY HARD to manipulate. HH certainly seems like he's more than capable.

You also have to realize that 00 buck or a slug will penetrate your entire house and a slug will go through a couple more houses if we're talking drywall.

If you axe me, there's no substitute for an AR and 30 rounds of non green tip .223 or 5.56mm ammo for home defense.

Actually, there is. A suppressed .300BLK AR firing subsonic rounds but the can is impossible for non free-staters to acquire.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:24 | 6901179 hedgeless_horseman
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...it's a good idea to make your first round in your home-defense shottie a Less-Than-Lethal round

I strongly disagree that this is a good idea, for several reasons.  

One is that I may only get one shot to stop the bad guy before he stops me from being able to defend myself and my loved ones.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:55 | 6901319 RafterManFMJ
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And I believe using a less than lethal round could have the same legal ramifications as firing a warning shot, or firing a shot to incapcitate. You'd be a fool to risk winning the gunfight, but losing in court. Or as H_H has said, wasting the only shot you had.

H_H what is your opinion of Winchester PDX12 Defender as a home defense shotgun load?

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 21:59 | 6902255 Trogdor
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Wed, 12/09/2015 - 21:06 | 6902114 jaxville
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I was once told by a law enforcement officer that if I ever used a firearm to protect myself I should ensure that there would only be one (my) voice in court afterwards.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 21:11 | 6902129 BidnessMan
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After the first one, the rest are free.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 18:05 | 6901359 hedgeless_horseman
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Too expensive.  We try to practice with the same full-power 00 that we play with on game day.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 19:31 | 6901663 Alex DeLarge
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Hooah!

Train like you fight.

Fight like you train. 

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:10 | 6901121 Lost in translation
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Like I said, JMO.

But I defer to your need to always be right.

Cheers...

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 16:49 | 6901018 Rainman
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sweet .... around these parts only high fallutin' rich dudes can afford a Benelli

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:01 | 6901081 hedgeless_horseman
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I only falluted once...ok...maybe twice...but I wasn't high.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:29 | 6901206 Rainman
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haha...now that this pumpkin fun is over, let's go try to hit a rooster pheasant on a jump up fly !

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