NY Thief Tries to Sue Liquor Store Owner Who Shot Him, But Fails

By Tom Knighton

If anyone asks for evidence of a benevolent God, I tend to refer them to stupid criminals. I can only see it as the work of a merciful Lord that these people are smart enough to get out of bed in the morning, but not get much else right in their lives which makes things easier for the good guys.

However, some don’t know how to stop while they’re ahead. Take this guy from New York.

He’s a lousy crook — and an even worse jailhouse lawyer.

A bumbling Long Island liquor-store thief who got caught stuffing bottles of hooch in his pants, only to be shot by the store’s owner as he tried to get away, wants $2.7 million for his injuries.

But Shawn Harris can’t even get the name of the store or the shooter right.

In the handwritten lawsuit he filed himself, Harris describes in detail how he and a pal ripped off the store on Newbridge Road in North Bellmore, LI, in August 2016, starting in the “Hennesey [sic] and Patron section.”

Harris “removed 4 bottles of liquor and I put 2 bottles in my pants and walked to pay for the other 2 bottles and [the store owner] …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms