A:
Did you hear about that guy on trial in Cleveland?
B:
No?
A:
Yeah, it's really crazy. Dude goes into a liquor store with his girlfriend kind of late on a Friday. They're shopping or whatever, and some other guy comes in and starts holding up the cashier, yelling and waving around a shotgun and everything.
B:
Sure.
A:
So this dude, the dude with the girlfriend, basically sneaks up behind the guy, and like flying tackles him, they start rolling around on the floor and wrestling with the gun and everything. And I guess the first dude, not the robber, but the first dude, he's a big guy, played football or whatever, and so he eventually wrestles the gun away, and stands up. So he's standing up with the gun, bad guys on the floor, and there's a pause, they're both just there for a split second, then the guy points the gun at the bad guy, and just totally blows him away. Blood and brains everywhere, the whole deal.
B:
Christ.
A:
Yeah. And then he kind of sets the gun down really gently and waits for the cops to show up.
B:
So it was like an adrenalin deal?
A:
Well, that's the whole thing. Dude's on trial now for manslaughter.
B:
I could see that.
A:
Yeah, but here's the kicker. And this was actually like a big part of the evidence: right before he goes after the robber, he's kind of hiding with his girlfriend in an aisle at the store, all crouched down, and she sees his eyes get big, and he looks right at her, right in the eyes and he's all excited and everything, and he whispers, "This is my chance." And then he gets up, tackles the dude, and everything else happens.
B:
"This is my chance"? What does that even mean?
A:
Nobody knows! The prosecutor says that he wanted to kill somebody, anybody. And he saw a chance open up where he could get away with it. But HE says that he always wanted to be a hero, saw a chance to save his girl and everything.
B:
Wow. Did they find him guilty?
A:
Nobody knows yet. Jury's still out.