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A touch of poetic justice.


When Adrian and Tiffany Tiffany, Tiffanie (UK)

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 McKinnon returned to their Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery is the capital and second most populous city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Montgomery is notable for its historic involvement during the Civil War, for being the first capital of the Confederacy, and for being a primary site in , house on October 16 after a week away, they discovered that they had been robbed--not just of valuables, but of almost everything they owned that had any monetary value. The thief had even stolen all the baby's clothes, the children's toys, and the pots and pans from the cupboards.

Adrian told his wife to go to her sister's house a block away, telling her that he was going to stay for a while and survey the damage. When Adrian walked to the back of the house, he came face to face with 33-year-old Tajuan Bullock--the thief. Adrian held the man at gunpoint, and in a case of poetic justice poetic justice
n.
The rewarding of virtue and the punishment of vice, often in an especially appropriate or ironic manner.


poetic justice
Noun

an appropriate punishment or reward for previous actions
, made the man clean up the mess he made, ordering him to organize papers that he had thrown on floors from drawers and cabinets.

Bullock was perturbed per·turb  
tr.v. per·turbed, per·turb·ing, per·turbs
1. To disturb greatly; make uneasy or anxious.

2. To throw into great confusion.

3.
 about having to clean up the mess and complained about it when police arrived.

Tiffany explained that part of the incident to the Montgomery Advertiser The Montgomery Advertiser is a daily newspaper located in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded in 1829. History
The newspaper began publication in 1829 called The Planter's Gazette. It became the Montgomery Advertiser in 1833. In 1903, R.F.
: "This man had the nerve to raise sand about us making him clean up the mess he made in my house.... The police officer laughed at him when he complained and said anybody else would have shot him dead. That made the man shut up."
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Title Annotation:EXERCISING THE RIGHT
Author:Williamsen, Kurt
Publication:The New American
Date:Jan 7, 2008
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