Posted on 06/08/2007 6:18:46 PM PDT by george76
To Deputy Sheriff Michael Knights, the dispatcher’s call sounded like something out of a slasher movie: a report of a man standing on a street corner threatening passing motorists with a chain saw.
"You know how in the ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ the guy raised his chain saw up and revved it? That’s what he was doing," Knights said Wednesday.
"Alcohol was involved."
Maine State Police Trooper Thomas Fiske said they took the chain saw away from Dube at gunpoint. Knights confiscated it after seeing that Dube was threatening motorists ...
Fiske said he was mystified as to why Dube was out there with a chain saw. By then, Knights said, Dube was little threat to anyone. The chain had broken off the saw, which Dube surrendered without incident.
In April 2005, Dube was charged with cultivating marijuana ...
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Chain saws are awesome but also fragile.
The chain is the weak link.
The operator is limited in his movements and the quickness of those movements, there is much room in defense against a chainsaw.
It looks like he was drunk or stoned or both ?
At age 47, with his history, it was probably both.
Normally you just deal with an old stoner drunk, but when they bring something as aggressive as a chainsaw it makes me wonder if it is time for the system to give this guy some personal attention.
He is lucky that someone did not take him out.
Even a well placed rock or shovel could have put into a ditch.
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