Biff_Poindexter
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"A Florida man will not face charges after emptying the magazine of his AR-15 in his backyard at his pool cleaner who he thought was a man trying to break into his home, a sheriff said. The couple heard noises coming from their pool lanai and looked out the window to see a man walking around by their pool in the screened-in yard, the sheriff said. They told deputies they didn’t recognize the man and said he was close to the house and moving toward the door. The woman was on the phone with emergency dispatch when her husband came out into the family room with the rifle, the man saw a flashlight that was moving toward their back door as his wife was speaking, the sheriff said, and he fired.
In the backyard was a 33-year-old pool cleaner with Bay Area Pool Techs, the sheriff said. The company had been cleaning the couple’s pool since they moved in over three years ago, and this cleaner had been their pool tech for at least six months, Gualtieri said. The cleaner had never come to clean the pool at night, the sheriff said. But on that night, he arrived at the couple’s house for their regular pool cleaning around 9 p.m. The man fired two rounds from his rifle into the backyard from behind his couch through closed blinds, Gualtieri said. The shots missed the cleaner, but he was hit in the back with glass and shrapnel, the sheriff said. He ran from the lanai; a minute after the cleaner ran from the pool deck, as seen on video footage shared by the sheriff’s office, the man emptied the magazine of his rifle into the backyard, shooting a total of 30 rounds in about 90 seconds. “Only the first two rounds were fired when (the cleaner) was on the pool deck,” the sheriff said, “the remaining rounds, he was actually gone.”
If you had been going to clean this pool for 6 months, but never at night, what type moron do you have to be to go to someone's house at night to clean their pool and not have the frame of mind to call ahead first? That makes entirely no sense and I am glad nobody was charged and I am glad that all this pool cleaner got was a piece of glass in his ass...maybe he will learn next time not to be so damn stupid. This guy could have been very easily dead if the shooter was a good shot and it would have been nobody's fault but his own.