Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Robbers get lesson from disabled Vietnam veteran

Disabled vet thwarts home break-in, warns suspects not to return
Gaston Gazette
By Michael Barrett
Published: Friday, December 5, 2014
(Michael Barrett/The Gazette)
“Joseph Sapienza stands with his walker Friday afternoon by the front door of his Davis Avenue home, where two men reportedly tried to break in Thursday night. The 68-year-old disabled Marine taped a note to the door, visible at bottom right, warning the suspects not to try it again.”

Sixty-eight-year-old Joseph Sapienza suspects the men who attempted to break into his Gastonia home Thursday night thought he would be an easy target because he’s disabled and uses a walker.

But after scaring away the would-be thieves, Sapienza taped a note to his door, in which he attempted to make it clear that his trigger finger works just fine.

“(If) you try to break in my house again, I will be waiting on you,” reads the note, which was still there Friday afternoon. “Enter at your own risk.”

Sapienza, a Marine Corps veteran who served four years in Vietnam, was watching television in his bed at 7:42 p.m. at his home on Davis Avenue. He heard someone prying off the lock and pulling the nails to the latch out of his front door.
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