Wife hides gun, so man tackles burglar
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Wife hides gun, so man tackles burglar

A Port St. Lucie man who was feeding his baby at 3 a.m. tackled a teenaged burglar who was breaking into a car near his home, police said. He would have used his gun, Jeffrey Ryder said, but his wife had hidden it. He didn't even think twice about confronting the kid, said Ryder, 35. "My mother screamed at me for it,'' he said. The Palm Beach Post has the deatails here.

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