Posted on 07/27/2015 12:15:46 PM PDT by lowbridge
Larimer County, Colorado, authorities are scratching their heads over a case in which a man allegedly purchased an antique toy wagon, then shot it nine times with a handgun, the Associated Press reported Sunday, citing the Coloradan. The wagon, according to the report, was decorated with a Confederate battle flag.
The unidentified purchaser is described as a white man in his 60s, the AP said. He bought the wagon for $30 from a thrift store, placed it wheels-up in the street, then tried to run it over with his SUV. According to the Coloradan, the man originally offered $19 for the wagon, but store owner Kathryn Wegryzn held firm on her asking price.
After failing to destroy the wagon with his vehicle, he then fired nine rounds at it from a handgun. No one was hurt, the AP added, but witnesses scattered when the gunfire began.
The man left the scene before officers arrived. A deputy who responded to the shooting observed what appeared to be a tire spin mark on the gravel where the incident happened and several shell casings and jacketed bullets, the Coloradan said.
The AP said the incident took place ten days after the tragic shooting in a Charleston, South Carolina church in which nine people were killed.
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Well sure. Totally good shooting there.
Why that little racist wagon could have shot up a church at any moment.
AS sure as the sun rises, the liberal violence grows more open.
Please see my tag line.
This is Exhibit A that Progressive hysteria over a freaking flag causes mental illness. Progressivism actually CREATES MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE.
Ban toy wagons!
Shh ... be wery wery quiet, I’m huntin’ wagons.
Liberals with guns are “the biggest problem in this country right now”
(changes hourly depending on the topic)
Think of all those poor people in China who got cheated out of a job opportunity.
That’s what decades of using dope will do to people.
We already know that people in Colorado don’t have all of their oars in the water.
I know without asking, the perp was liberal Democrat Obama voter.
Well, other than discharging his weapon in the middle of Main St, the only other charge should be littering. Maybe disturbing the peace.
I am basing my assumption on if Joey Shitebyrd buys an American Flag and decides to burn in it in a ‘controlled’ environment, he is perfectly within his rights. Is that not what the courts have been telling us?
The Libs may be backing these events to make a point about gun violence BUT all it makes me do is buy MORE guns - as indiscreetly as possible because eventually these whack jobs are going to be going for the ‘bonus round’ and shoot up people around them to garner more money....
I believe wholeheartedly the right to concealed carry and am somewhat skeptical about open carry BUT if these nuts continue to spring up, OC will be the only way to go as they are going to have to see they may be surrounded by people willing to ‘put them away’. Of course the ‘good guy’ shooters will have be in dire fear of their life because the guy was nutty enough to shoot his ‘American Flyer’, who is to say he won’t turn on an ‘American Sailor’......
Typical in CO, especially among government/contractor pensioners in their 60s and 70s—probably the majority of the population up on the Range.
An add on to my above...(#15)
Notice that the guy caused a disturbance in the store, attempted to run over the wagon several times, shot 9 times and the Police still arrived after he left the ‘areeea’
So they STILL say that if I see suspicious activity, do nothing but call 911 and let them handle it....yea, that works fine...
This guy paid cash for the privilege of being a public idiot. Too many rich lefties have ruined Colorado.
Support his kind by vacationing in CO.
I wonder if an up and coming entrepreneur has thought about buying wagons in bulk and painting the rebel flag on them? If he could do it for cheap there is money to be made.
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