I’m 6’4, about 280 pounds and I think this would cause a seriously high pucker factor for me:
Taking a break from work at his roadside farm stand, Richard Ouellette Jr. walked into his Washington Road house early Tuesday afternoon and suddenly faced a genuine nightmare: a 6-foot-8, 280-pound stranger aiming a gun at his head.
The intruder demanded Ouellette open a small wall safe…
So what would you do? I’m a big guy, but this guy is bigger than me. I would like to believe I have the heart this guy has:
“Basically I was in shock. I don’t know if I did the right thing or the wrong thing, but I thought, `He’s not telling me what to do in my home.’ I pushed his arm away,” Ouellette recalled from his parents’ home Tuesday evening.Â
Even after the hulking man tried to shoot him three times – the gun misfired – and then opened a deep wound on Ouellette’s head by whacking him with a heavy glass, Ouellette fought back.
“He tried to shoot, then he grabbed me, I grabbed him and we fought. We finally fell down a full flight of stairs, breaking everything in the way. Then he hit me with this thick glass, I saw stars. He was choking me, he had a fork and he was going to stab me, I couldn’t take much more,” Ouellette said.
The attacker finally ran out of the house – and Ouellette ran after him, climbed into a golf cart and followed the man toward the woods.
Un. Be. Lieveable.
While he was chasing the guy, he was bleeding from the head and yelling at the people nearby to call 911. The police showed up and arrested the guy.
Within three minutes, police cars were screaming up Washington and officers began chasing the man. Ouellette had nothing but praise for them: “They were right on it. I’ll tell you, all my taxes are worth paying this year.”
The attitude Richard shows at the end of this story is inspirational.
“I’m a family man, a normal farmer. I grow corn and tomatoes – it’s a living, but I work for everything I have,” he said.
“I’m just happy and blessed,” said Ouellette, who needed several staples to his scalp to close the wound from the fight. He said he was relieved that his wife and young children weren’t home.
We could all learn a thing or two from Richard Ouellette, I think.
