Posted on 06/17/2018 8:01:22 PM PDT by Perseverando
“But will it play in Seattle?”
The Seattle City Council will pay for the funeral and hold a parade for the dead guy! I mean they’ve been wasting money on everything else.
I remember “It’s the Water” from the television beer commercials but not the name Tumwater.
I always say a car jacker will kill to get that car. They will. No more car jacking from that lazy idiot.
“The now defunct Olympia Brewing Company was headquartered in Tumwater, WA. Their motto was, “It’s the Water!” Artesian water in Tumwater.”
So that’s where ‘Tums’ come from.
“When they arrived at the Walmart, they learned that a man had tried to carjack a car, and shot a man inside the car twice. He then tried to carjack another car. Two citizens in the parking lot drew weapons; at least one of them shot and killed the armed man, she said.”
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article213362194.html
Two armed citizens on a Sunday afternoon in a parking lot.
Our state is a will issue permit state, and there are a lot of people exercising their right.
DK
several good reports on FR tonight about perps getting shot all over the country. I hope the trend continues.
“Gunowners: Making America Safe for its Citizens”
“in some burg by the name of Tumwater?”
Dude, that was the home of Oly beer. Used to be a place of major import.
I went on a couple of tours to the Olympia brewery in Tumwater. I always enjoyed the tap room at the end of the tour where you were treated to a couple of servings of beer. Today Olympia Beer is being brewed by MillerCoors at their brewery in Irwindale, California.
“So that’s where ‘Tums’ come from.”
I don’t think that there’s a connection with Tums.
“In 1928, James Harvey “Jim” Howe (born 1873 College Corner, OH & died 1960 Webster Groves, MO), pharmacist in St. Louis, Missouri, developed Tums in the basement of his home while treating his wife’s indigestion. The remedy caught on, and commercial production began in 1930 by the Lewis-Howe Company, which took its name from Howe and his uncle, A. H. Lewis, who was a pharmacist in Bolivar, Missouri; Howe worked in his uncle’s drugstore as a teenager.
In 1978 the company was purchased by Revlon of New York, making it no longer a St. Louis-based company. Revlon’s Norcliff Thayer unit oversaw the Tums brand. Revlon spun Norcliff Thayer off to Beecham Group in 1986, and Beecham eventually became GlaxoSmithKline through a series of mergers.
Since 1930, a plant originally built by Lewis-Howe in downtown St. Louis has been making the antacid tablets. The factory complex is the main manufacturing site for Tums to this day, and GlaxoSmithKline recently completed millions of dollars’ worth of renovations and modernizations”
http://katu.com/news/local/police-responding-to-shooting-at-tumwater-walmart
Perp shot a display case?! Sounds like he was strung out and/or a nutter.
They are already trying to get a referandum on the ballot (to let the “people” vote). Of course a few liberal billionaires pay for it, and sell it as “The Safe Gun Act” or something. Just “common sense” stuff to keep guns stored safely, and to have kids wait until 21 to buy a semi-auto rifle.
Of course they don’t talk about what is in the entire 30 pages of the proposed bill. The “stored safely” is open for interpretation. They will also require that if anyone wants to purchase a gun, you will have had to have a firearm safety training course within the past five years. Which means taking a class every five years. They don’t specify how long the class will be, what will be required, etc. Might be 4 hours, or it might be 40 hours. Who knows?
For now though, amazingly Washington State remains fairly conservative when it comes to gun rules, and the use of guns in defense of yourself, your property, and others (or their property).
Oh, I just figured that Tums must be made from Tumwater, hence the name./sarc
Carjacking is becoming one of Americas’s Most Dangerous Professions.
Not a beer drinker, but having heard of Olympia beer I am curious why it is defunct?
You knowing it is defunct might have an, if not the answer.
I always wonder what happened to “Oly.”
Here’s the history:
“Leopold Schmidt, a German immigrant from Montana founded The Capital Brewing Company at Tumwater Falls on the Deschutes River in the town of Tumwater, near the south end of Puget Sound. He built a four-story wooden brewhouse, a five-story cellar building, a one-story ice factory powered by the lower falls, and a bottling and keg plant and in 1896, began brewing and selling Olympia Beer. In 1902, the firm became Olympia Brewing Company, with Frank Kenney as the Company Secretary. It was Frank Kenney who proposed the slogan “It’s the Water” to promote the brewery’s flagship product. Statewide Prohibition, which began in January 1916, four years before National Prohibition, ended beer making operations. After Prohibition ended, a new Olympia Brewery (47.0155°N 122.9035°W) was erected just upstream from the original, and Olympia beer went back on sale in 1934.
Olympia was a very popular regional brand in the Pacific Northwest for half of a century. It eventually expanded nationwide, repositioned as a low-price lager. During the 1970s, Olympia acquired Hamm’s and Lone Star, and also produced Buckhorn Beer, which had previously been a product of the Lone Star Brewing Company. Until the mid-1970s, competitor Coors of Colorado had a limited 11-state distribution area; Washington and Montana were not added until 1976, and Oregon did not approve sales of Coors in grocery stores until 1985.
Between 1970 and 1980 Olympia faced flat revenues among consolidating nationwide breweries and, in 1982, the Schmidt family, which owned and operated the brewery and company, elected to sell the company. Olympia was subsequently purchased by G. Heileman Brewing Company in 1983, which was purchased by Stroh Brewery Company in 1996. In 1999, Pabst bought most of the Stroh brands, including Olympia.
As with many other regional breweries, ownership of Olympia eventually passed through several corporations including Pabst, Heileman, and Stroh’s, until the brewery was eventually purchased by Miller Brewing Company. For a time, the Olympia brewery took over the brewing of other Pacific Northwest brands as their original breweries were closed one by one, including the Lucky Lager brewery in Vancouver, Washington, the Henry Weinhard’s brewery in Portland, and even the brewery of its arch-rival, Rainier Beer, in Seattle. In 2002, SAB bought out Miller brewing Co. SABMiller closed the Tumwater facility in mid-2003, citing the unprofitability of such a small brewery.
Pabst was purchased, along with the Olympia label, by beer industry veteran Eugene Kashper with backing from TSG Consumer Partners in 2014, and Olympia Beer continues to be contract brewed by MillerCoors at their brewery in Irwindale, California.”
So It’s no longer “it’s the water,” because Irwindale is a thousand or more miles from Tumwater, WA. And like most everything else in life, the label doesn’t mean anything any longer.
Why did he kill Pooky? Why didn’t the shooter just shoot the carjacker in the pinky toe?
Fascinating story, thanks for the effort.
On another note are you in possession of ‘63 and ‘87 Vettes?
Always wanted to know. Mine is a ‘66 convert 300 horse four speed.
There is actually a term for it- earwitness. I remember hearing it used on Perry Mason.
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