“I Understand There is Also a Cannon”
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Heroes
I was sorely tempted to call this guy the Hero of the Day, but for this doughty gentleman, who, naked and unarmed (until he acquired one of the perps’ firearms, that is) kicked arse and took pseudonyms when three ne’er-do-wells threatened his offspring.
A millionaire businessman singlehandly fought off three armed burglars after they put a knife to his teenage daughter’s throat, he told a court.
Bernard Dwyer, 51, who runs a construction business, said he believed they would all be killed and decided he “would rather die like a man than a dog” defending his family.
Despite being temporarily knocked unconscious and then stabbed three times in the head, he said he became “invigorated” by the sight of the attackers threatening his 13-year-old daughter Aisling.
Good on you, sirrah. I tire of these reports of parents leaving burning houses without their children, etc. etc. ad nauseum. It is your job as parent to defend your young, else what good is your genetic contribution?
Now back to the guy with the cannon…
A farmer built an entire mock castle behind a screen of hay bales and lived there concealed for four years to evade planning regulations, officials said on Friday — but it may be torn down anyway.
Robert Fidler hopes to take advantage of a provision of planning law that allows buildings without planning permission to be declared legal if no objections have been made after four years
He’s very probably going to lose this fight, especially considering where he lives, but I hope he gives them ten solid rounds, just for the sheer petulance involved:
“It does not count because the property was hidden behind hay bales,” said a spokeswoman. “No one knew it was there.”
That argument should be full of FAIL, but will no doubt be ratified by a special committee of stick-up-the-arse officials dedicated to keeping communities as bland and Stepford-like as possible. Heaven forfend a land-owner should build as they like on their very own land. It’d be anarchy, I tell you.
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January 25th, 2008
He was stabbed three times in the head, and got up to fight?!
I was going to jokingly say, “Surely that man’s Irish,” but I checked the article, and he really is. Hee.
January 26th, 2008
“I hope he gives them ten solid rounds, just for the sheer petulance involved”
A farmer in a castle with a cannon firing on demolition equipment advancing toward his home….. Most epic mental picture I have had in months.
January 27th, 2008
I’m amazed that the guy who fought back wasn’t thrown in jail for armed assault.
If ignorance of the law is no excuse, then the ignorance of those enforcing the law is no excuse, either.