Married couple arrested for planting "bait bikes" then beating thieves with baseball bats

Those “innocent” nazis were going around being violently racist, homophobic and transphobic before Antifa got involved.

It’s interesting how many people didn’t care when it was just brown and queer people being beaten.

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Y’know, I’ve been contemplating my own ‘dark side’ for a while now, and how my worst, most base impulses genuinely scare me sometimes.

With that kind of self-reflection in mind, I can fathom exactly one situation where I could even see that as a possibility; if someone has done grievous, irreparable harm to my kid.

In that particular instance, I could see myself losing all control in a ‘blood rage’… but again, the possibility itself mortifies me.

Going to such extremities over mere property, though?

Seems like someone moral’s compass may be badly broken…

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Since even the most devoted maniacs can’t stand ready 24/7, I presume that they took the bike inside when they wanted to sleep?

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I hear you on that one! I could imagine some “well, fuck it” switch flipping in that case and going into a dissociative rage.

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I can’t help wondering how relevant (to the violence) it is that one of the couple is in the military.

It almost sounds like they saw it as a chance to engage in some off-duty, real-life war games of their own…

From the abc link: (emphasis mine)

And they were victims of another car break-in days later.

“And then after that he was like, ‘Well screw this we’re going to take the neighborhood, we’re not going to let (them) take us’,” LeBeau [the couple’s neighbor] says.

A spokesperson at Naval Air Station Lemoore confirmed a sailor and a dependent were arrested on base by Visalia Police on Wednesday.

LeBeau says the woman suspect was a Lemoore sailor.

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I recently learned about the Hot/Cold Empathy Gap…

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