I'm not condoning what Brian Knight did, but I sure do understand
why he did what he did.
Friday night, Knight's wife woke him up because she could hear
voices in their farm yard. As Knight was coming downstairs, some
guy drove off on Knight's ATV that was parked beside his house. The
ATV wasn't allegedly stolen....it was stolen. As Knight came out
of his house, two more of the thieves where pulling out in a pick-up
truck.
This didn't take place on the prairie, but in rolling bush Parkland
N.E. of Red Deer, Ab. Knight pursued the truck & ATV for a
couple of miles (as I understand it from reading a couple of different
newspaper stories over the last week) and the thief on Knight's ATV
wouldn't stop, so Knight forced his own ATV (& in turn his own car)
off the road and into the ditch. The truck with the other thieves in it
drove off, and the last I've heard, the RCMP haven't caught them
either.
Knight shot at the remaining thief twice, wounding him once. The thief fled
on foot. Neighbours responded to the two gun shoots, and picked the
thief up further down the road.
The Neighbours brought the thief back to where the ATV & car where
now in the ditch. They where keeping the thief warm in the passenger
seat of another pick-up truck while waiting for the RCMP to arrive.
The driver stepped out of the truck for some reason, so the thief slipped
over and stole that truck too....which he crashed into a ditch about a
100 meters down the road. Eventually the RCMP arrived.
Other Neighbours have their comments in an Edmonton newspaper
(many folks interviewed at the local cafe) and property crime is nothing
new. RCMP response time is about an hour usually.
ATV's are toys for many urban people. For a Rancher or a Farmer, an
ATV & Truck & Tractor, etc...are his tangible assets and necessary for
the livelihood of himself and his family. RCMP hand out file#'s for
insurance purposes with respect to rural property crimes. Like I've already
stated above, "I'm not condoning what Brian Knight did, but I sure do
understand why he did what he did!!!"
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