Stupid crook tip for the day: If you're going to try to rob people, don't mess with the armed ones.

According to this stroy in the Anchorage Daily News, we're all supposed to put our sad faces on because James Ifopo is no longer among us.

You see, James Ifopo was a punk kid who had just moved to Alaska with his family from Hawaii. However it didn't take him long to meet other punks who apparently shared his hobby of walking around attacking perfect strangers in their own driveways. Well James and his two idiot pals picked the wrong "victim" back in June and the man that the three savagely attacked was able to draw a pistol and shoot two of them. James caught a bullet in his chest and assumed ambient temperature on the spot.

The District Attorney declined to bring charges against the shooter, saying that it was a case of self defense. In addition to beating Matthew Schneider, James and his pals wre slamming the man's head in his own truck door before he drew his Springfield XD 40 and shot. (He gets kudos from me for an excellent pistol choice too.) Of course now the thug's parents are planning a lawsuit. They claim that the Schneider should have run away or not shot darling James in the chest. So rather than take responsibility for raising up a punk and turning it loose on society, these losers now view their dead delinquent as a winning lottery ticket that they're trying to cash in.

Here's hoping that the suit lands where it belongs--in the trash can. It was obviously a justifyiable shooting brought on by the deceased's own choices and actions and the world's better off without that kid. I'd rather have a world with one Matthew Schneider in it than twenty James Ifopos any day.