Burglary Suspect Calls 911 for Help After Texas Homeowner Pulls a Gun on Him: ‘What the Hell Are You Doing in My House?’
A Texas burglary suspect called 911 early Tuesday morning to report that a homeowner was holding him at gunpoint and threatening to shoot him, KDFW reports.
Homeowner James Gerow said he awoke at around 12:30 a.m. and found a man wearing dark clothes and a hoodie inside his Springtown home. He then retrieved his legally owned gun and followed the man out to a truck that was parked in his driveway.
Wielding his firearm, Gerow ordered the suspected burglar to give him the keys to the vehicle and told his wife to call 911 while he held the suspect at gunpoint.
“Yeah, hurry up now. He says my husband’s fixing to shoot him,” she reportedly told the dispatcher.
The burglary suspect was later identified as 41-year-old Christopher Lance Moore. Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said Moore also called 911 for help while he was in his pickup truck.
“I’m not sure. I’m out in the country somewhere and some guy’s got a gun on me,” he said on the emergency call, conveniently leaving out why he found himself looking into the barrel of a gun.
(KDFW)
“I pointed the gun at him and asked him who he is and what the hell he was doing in my house,” Gerow said. “He said his name was Lance, and I said, ‘Lance, what the hell are you doing in my house?’…And he said, βunlucky.β Just unlucky.”
Moore was later arrested for burglary of habitation, a second-degree felony.
Gerow, the homeowner, said Moore admitted to investigators that he had “bad intentions.”
“I gave him a chance…Had he said he had bad intentions before that, he wouldn’t have got his second chance. That’s a different ballgame. You threaten me and my family, that’s a different ballgame,” Gerow added.
(H/T: Fox News)
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Joyzee
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:39pmUnluckey and doubledumb
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MIBUGNU2
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:08pmOne of obama’s TAKERS was really lucky, had he done this
in ARIZONA, maybe not so lucky !! next time he does this,
go to New York City….FREEBEES and NO GUN’s ..
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dealer@678
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:01pmThe only thing that saved him was that he could speak english
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Wolfgang the Gray
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:07pmIn Arizona, once the burgler had left the home & was trying to escape in his vehicle, you would not be within your rights to shoot him. You can only shoot them if they are threatening your or your feel for your life. An escaping criminal would not be a threat. In Texas however, if they are on your property, you can blast them & this homeowner was within his rights.
God Bless Texas!
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Fat Pappy
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:19pmActually quite lucky he didn’t get his a$$ killed…. picked the right house, maybe not so dumb after all.
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Ditto Head
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:19pmI’d say this d.b. is VERY lucky to have survived his ordeal.
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pamela kay
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:53amJOYZEE, I agree. we live in a crazy world these days……………………………This part is for The Blaze…Why don’t the stories I attempt to share on FB show up? They seldom do.
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WATER-THE-TREE
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:47amI hate when they say ” he got his legally owned gun”, is there any other kind, would there be any other kind. It’s as if to say it won’t be long and then soon there will be a difference. I guess we will have to go and get our illegal gun, the one that they missed when they came to confiscate all of our firearms.
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Bum thrower
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:00amToo bad; it would have most advantageous if we were only discussing ONE version of this event.
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soisay
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:10pmWater the tree. Yes, there are unregistered guns, or guns registered to others, guns possessed by felon homeowners with their rights not restored. It is the same with fatal car crashes. News reports now report “the victim was/was not wearing a seat belt”, almost as if it was a national regulation to report that status. By “making the implicit explicit” (as my boss used to say), we can’t have somebody do the “what if game” that it might have been illegal / unregeistered / etc. I think it is a good thing.
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bikerdogred1
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:35pmYou gotta love Texas,no other state like it.
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TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:46pmThat’s right. Both of them calling 911. That’s a hoot. That guy got lucky.
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texanpatriot
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:54pmReached for a cell phone and did not lose his life — I would say he was VERY lucky.
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tothepoint
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:33pmThis, America, is just one more reason we must fight to retain our right to bear arms.
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aproudinfidel
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:25pmDitto that.
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damomom
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:49pmBut would we really need to be armed if criminals actually spent their time in jail instead of getting back on the street after a few months of “good behavior”? Let the sentence BE the sentence and people might think twice before breaking the law.
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walkintruth
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 4:43pmYou just don’t know what kind of crazy people are out there. I for one do not want my family ending up like sitting ducks. I know people that had home invasions. One woman was raped and the intruder waited for the husband to come home so he could tie both of them up and rob them. Another was tricked in to opening the door to sign something. They came in a beat both the husband and wife. Luckily, someone called and knew something was wrong when they didn’t pick up. The police came before they were murdered. The gunman had the gun to the husbands head and was about to fire before he heard the police. There are many stories like this. If these people had a weapon they could have defended themselves.
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ltb
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:32pmTexas pretty much has a “shoot first, ask questions later” doctrine, so this guy should consider himself lucky. Of course if this had happened in someplace like New York, the homeowner would have been arrested.
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hydtguy
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:24am100% correct. NY you have a mandate to retreat unless your life is at risk. If I found a POS in my home at midnight…….. 00 buck. As I retreat to cover.
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TheVOR
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:16pmI guess this must be that “gun culture” Bob Costass is talking about.
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jimbo_from_suwanee
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:08pmThe homeowner’s guns obviously used their powers of escalation effluence to pull a poor random, innocent motorist, who would have otherwise just driven by the home, into the driveway and compel him to break in. From a motorist to breaking-and-entering, all because of the guns in the home.
The guns were so evil. You could just see it in their triggers.
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soisay
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:05pmJimbo, I think Costas did a good job of explaining what he meant when talking about a “gun culture” when reading another author’s article during game break. You should find his explanatory comments.
He was referring to a coach talking to a room full of young professional athletes, all newly minted millionaires, many with entourages, many raised in bad neighborhoods now being transplanted to gated communities with multi-car garages filled with Ferraris and Bentleys. Over half admitted to owning guns. Guns, in that environment, will more likely lead to things like murder/suicide, or bar/club shooting, and accidental self shooting long before it will domestic protection. How many active millionaire professional athletes are the victim of home invasion or preventable lone street crime? I know of none.
And how many professional athletes have the time for proper training and periodic visits to the range? The few that do take the time to be responsible owners are not the issue of the original article. It is the many that had street experience, neighborhood experience, and grew up in an urban or Hollywood “gun culture” that are at risk of losing their blessings as millionaire professional athletes.
If you heard his comments, it made perfect sense.
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wisconsinlcm
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:54pmI have to agree with Jimbo, THEVOR? lol
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Landon410
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:12pmlove his story, kind of wish he would have pistol whipped the guy though
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Bluebonnet
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:45pmSee? Homeowners need to be able to protect themselves and their family. The gun made this guy behave. Had the guy been in my home uninvited, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have been as gentle.
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OUTLAW_WEALTH
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:14pmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77_BzTO7X0E
This is what the 2nd Amendment means.
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banjarmon
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:30am@OUTLAW_WEALTH
Outstanding vid…I have sent it to all my friends and family.
Recommended for all the BLAZE people too!!!
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wisconsinlcm
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:03pmHA I like that it would have been a great ending and he mite have learn not to brake into pepoles homes.
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T-2
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:08pmwhoop!!! gig’em…
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Frederick_Douglass_Republican
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:07pmHe’s lucky that the homeowner didn’t shoot him when he reached for his phone. Try reaching for something when a cops got you under the gun. The homeowner went out of his way to not shoot him. I’m glad he was uninjured.
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Adobewalls
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:57pmHomeowner should have never let him reach for anything. Probably should not have followed him out of house when he found him in the house he should have been dead right there.
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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:47amBlood and body tissue is not fun to clean up particularily after it has been sitting a while. I say shoot the guy is his pickup. Blood and gore is in the thief’s vehicle.
Seriously, the thief wasn’t unlucky as he claimed. He was very lucky. How many times does this happen. A gun is used to prevent a crime but no shot was made.
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Anadara
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:54pmMake sure that you shoot straight and double tap. If you are lucky the intruder will exit the house and croak in the yard. Be aware… If you shoot the intruder in the back, you will most likely go to jail. If you shoot an intruder while either of you are outside your house, you will most likely go to jail. If you shoot an intruder, he falls, and you shoot him again, you will most likely go to jail. If you only wound the creep you may get sued by him!
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Nairbmack
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:06pmHello, and welcome to the Rachel Maddow show. Tonight we discuss an amazing story of a legal gun owner using his weapon to defend his home and family from a criminal……
yah, you’re not gonna hear that
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ResistSocialism
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:03pmHe was lucky!
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truthsurfer
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:59pmAny loser wearing a hoodie breaking into someones house should be shot on site. This guy has to be a moron liberal since he was tyaking what did not belong to him.
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pavepaws
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:09pmI’m sure Bob Costas will have commentary.
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rationaldiscourse
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:15pmA sound mentality.
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Ditto Head
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:26pm@Paws
The Costas Report.
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angelcat
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:41amAnother person wearing a hoodie with admitted bad intentions, yet we are probably considered racist or unfair even to mention it.
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ThoreauHD
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:58pmThat guy was pretty calm about it considering. I also like how the kid picked up a 12 gauge and went to work from the balcony. Man, I’m liking Texas more and more every day.
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JGR1027
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:19pmThe one thing that is keeping me from moving there is that I am sure very soon in the future that Yellow stone is going to flatten texas even more than it already is . I am pretty safe from that ordeal at least living here..The Carolinas
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idarusskie
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:18pmYellowstone? Texas is a long way from Yellowstone. if Yellowstone goes off the whole world would be screwed.
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Dr Vel
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:39amThe flaw in your super volcano theory is the ash cloud will follow the jet stream ESE heading directly towards you staying mostly north of Texas. Your fear of something you will never see in generations is actually detrimental.
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gyro
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:57pmlucky the fellow dosnt live in NYC
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katzmeow44
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:55pmI wouldn’t be suprised if the burglar sues the man for pain and suffering…..and wins!! That’s the direction our country is going in now. ‘the burglar was a product of his environment, he didn’t want to steal, he was raised by a violent father, he doesn’t know any better’. Horse**it!
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oldguy49
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:36pmyep..in front of both driveways are signs …………..trespassers will be shot , survivers will be shot again…………………..
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texastommy
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:04amWell, he can try to sue, suppose. But in Texas, as long as the homeowner is using his weapon legally, which it appears he was, then the homeowner is protected BY LAW from being sued.
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TheirMom
Posted on December 9, 2012 at 4:40pmIn this last election Arizona voters passed a law that says a person injured while committing a crime can NOT sue the intended victim(s) of the crime. So if my dog bites a guy while he’s trying to break in to my house he can’t sue me or my dog. We also are a very Second Amendment friendly state. I almost always have my S & W with me. A 60 year old grandma is not always an easy target. :-)
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tomf
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:55pmIts Texas, it is legal to shoot em at night, on your property. Homeowner messed up.
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NLN
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:29amYep we have the castle doctrine, all we have to do to shoot is feel our life is threatened. Bang, bang.
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Hoax And Chains
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:54pmI love a happy ending! Kudos, Mr Gerow!
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MIBUGNU2
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:38pmMight work on that tan, before you go though !!
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americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:53pmYes, the sad thing is he will be out soon and go right back to his “Unlucky” ways! Great job! I love Texas!
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MIBUGNU2
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:26pmWhen he does get out of jail, someone should clue this Idiot
on the states that have lax Gun Laws..HMMMMMMM !!!!!!!!!
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MIBUGNU2
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:33pmAnd he can DUMP his phone service, cuz’ he’ll be able to
get a “Bama Fo’, Ya’ Know”..
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MIBUGNU2
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:55pmGo EAST young man, Nor by Nor East…
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BlackCrow
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:52pmHad it been my house when he went for that phone it would have been the LAST thing he would have done.
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Fubared
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:08pm“Furtive” move…
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BlackCrow
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:30pmIn my house it would have been a tossup between my 45 and mom’s .357 on who cooked off the first round.
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Fubared
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:40pmCrow, I hear you, but if the dogs wake me, it’s the Benelli. “In a world of compromise, some men don’t”. And Merry Christmas by the way-
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neverending
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:50pmLucky the guy asked him – should of just put him out of his misery
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The-Monk
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:46pmOK…. now that’s funny. : )
On a secondary thought…. I’m glad the UN doesn’t run 911 and/or Law Enforcement.
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Favored93
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:56pmYUP! could not agree with you more! ALL GUN OWNERS ARE CRAZY AND DANGERIOUS!!! …Errrr wait no it was the criminal who was crazy and it was the gun owner who was calm and sane…this is backwards right?!?!?! lol
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Polarized America
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:09pmHowdy Monk…was today ur lucky day ? i hope it was
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The-Monk
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:31pmHi Polarized America,
It was good. Had a data recovery side job that a data recovery company couldn’t handle.
It was a USB flash drive. They’re only used to hard drives so they called me. : )
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kickagrandma
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:44pmI LOVE TEXAS, and I LOVE TEXANS!!! Way to go Mr. and Mrs. Gerow!!! Hat’s off to you.
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Pantloadian
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:44pmLance wants Texas to secede, too. I hope Lance gets what he wants.
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M13
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:02pmWhy does your dad want to secede from Texas panty load?
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The-Monk
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:36pmWango needs to secede from his yellow diapers and his gayish pink background.
Background or lifestyle? I get those 2 mixed up sometimes.
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Pantloadian
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:51pmDUH MONK . . . While I’m flattered that you want to get me out of my pants, I’m afraid I’m not “that way.” You are, and that’s fine. You should fit right in down in Texas – more closet cowboys than you can shake a stick at – chaps and all. Send us a postcard.
FISH_BONE
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:21pmPANTS: Your clever wit is beyond description.
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AZRACISTBIGOT
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:17amNice fantasy there Pantload.
But I don’t think that Broke Back Mountain movie went over to well in Texas
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Joe_The_Patriot
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:43pmWhen someone breaks into your house shoot 1st ask questions later…
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Favored93
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:09pmWhile I do agree with you (I truly do) I also think that if you can subdue and detain without risking your life or the lives of your family then you should…However dead men tell no tells right?
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FISH_BONE
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:22pmI thought dead mean don’t wear plaid.
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ALL4FREEDOM
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:43pmYou just can’t make this stuff up! Thank you, Blaze, for making my day!
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jungle J
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:40pmhe will be out soon and kill and innocent.
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donkeykong
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:52pmLuckiest burglar in Texas – home owner had every right to
put 2 rounds into “center mass” instead of “following him out”
to his vehicle. So now, we taxpayers get to fund a trial of a
piece of trash, whereas he will probably will go free.
Can’t believe this happened in Texas!
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TPartyXpress
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 6:53am@ donkeykong
Center of mass is always more reliable than a head shot.
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