A 911 audio tape has surfaced unfolding the drama of a homeowner killing a drunk intruder who apparently mistook the home for his own.

There are a lot of things going on in this clip. First, obviously the pure drama of a man being shot and killed is surreal. Second, who is the reporter introducing the tape? What a jerk. He is practically defending the intruder,

A Colorado man shoots and kills what he thought to be was [sic] an intruder.

Right. The man was clearly being presumptuous in thinking that the man was an intruder. Let’s see, you’ve got a man breaking into your home through your back door. I wonder if he’s an intruder or not? Let’s have a quick brainstorm to come up with other labels that could be applied to the man breaking into my home, and when we are done we’ll apply one of two descriptions to those labels, either “Describes a dangerous person breaking into my home” or “Does not describe any potential threat.” If any of the labels can be described by the latter statement, perhaps violent force should be avoided.

After the clip plays, the reporter says, as if in shock, that the homeowner was not charged due to a pesky little law that protects homeowners from being charged for killing intruders. Damn those pesky laws! Clearly, this reporter has a habit of breaking into to people’s homes, but always with good intentions, and never as “an intruder.”

I don’t care if the man was a man trying to stuff a million dollars into the pants of the first person he found in the home, or if he was breaking into the home to rape and kill the first person he found; the bottom line is that the man was breaking into a home, and the homeowner was forced to make a very difficult decision to protect himself and his family from a likely threat.

The story is sad. That’s all. This isn’t a basis for law changes, gun control, or anything else. It’s just sad. Next time your sitting at the bar considering another scotch, ask yourself if consuming it might make you so delirious that you could misplace your house.

At LiveLeak.com

That’s kinda cute. And sad. Mostly sad.