Crooks shoot at Texas man after he tries to stop them from breaking into his work vehicles. Of course he fires right back.



At least two wannabe burglars shot at a Texas man after he ventured outside to stop them from breaking into his work vehicles earlier this week — and he fired right back.

Pablo Covarrubias told KTRK-TV his 19-year-old son woke him up just after 1 a.m. Sunday and told him the suspects were trying to break into two vehicles he uses for his HVAC company.

'I think next time they'll think twice, hopefully, that you just can't go around taking people's property.'

"There was no time to react. I mean, I just had my pistol right there on the side of my bed. I got up," Covarrubias told the station, which added that the incident took place in the Meadows of Clear Creek subdivision of southeast Harris County.

KTRK said surveillance video shows Covarrubias walking outside with his son — and only making it a few steps before the suspects open fire.

The station said Covarrubias returned fire, and the suspects sped away in what he believes is a black BMW.

KTRK said one of the bullets hit a jack-o'-lantern on Covarrubias' porch, but it's unclear if his own shots hit anything.

"We don't know if the perpetrators, the suspects, were hit," Sgt. Hector Vega with the Harris County Precinct 2 Constable's Office told the station, which added that the suspects haven't been identified.

Covarrubias noted to KTRK he that hopes his shots, if nothing else, served as a wake-up call to the bad guys.

"I think next time they'll think twice, hopefully, that you just can't go around taking people's property," he told the station.

You can view a video report here about the incident, which includes a surveillance clip showing the shootout.

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'It's a turkey, not a tiger!' Bodycam footage shows police response to wild break-in call



Bodycam footage shows police officers in Wausau, Wisconsin, responding to a wild break-in at an apartment complex on Friday.

Doris Madden, a resident at City Walk Apartments in Wausau, became suspicious after she noticed a broken window. She alerted management that someone appeared to have smashed through a second-story window and broken into an apartment.

“We had no idea what had caused it, or if anybody was even home,” Madden told WSAW-TV.

The apartment manager sent maintenance to investigate, and they found the suspect inside the apartment.

It was a wild turkey.

“When he opened the door, there’s the turkey. And so he thought, ‘I’m not going to try to catch that thing.’ So he called the police station for animal control,” Madden said.

Officers from the Wausau Police Department were called to remove the fowl invader.

“We have one humane officer, so a lot of times the first response in any call including animal calls are our patrol officers. They just have to try to do the best they can with the information that they have and the equipment available to them,” Wausau Police Department Patrol Captain Todd Baeten said.

Bodycam footage released by the department shows officers equipped with gloves and a net preparing to capture the turkey.

"I want the gloves and the net, though, is what I'm saying, because when I go in there I want to be able to, like, get it," one officer tells his partner.

"It's a turkey, not a tiger!" the other scoffs.

"Yeah, it's gonna scratch!" His partner replies. "Have you hunted turkey before?"

The video shows the officers enter the apartment, where the turkey was gobbling around like it owned the place.

"All right, should we just go in at it?" the officer with the camera asks. They attempted to apprehend the bird, which resisted arrest and dodged the officer's net several times before it was cornered.

The officers were able to release the turkey outside unharmed.

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Baeten said he was proud of how his officers handled the situation and how they captured the turkey without harming it.

"It really underscores the unpredictable nature of the job that our officers are asked to do at any given time,” Baeten said

This was not the department's first encounter with wildlife.

Last year, officers were called to wrangle a deer that managed to crash through a window at a local nursing home.