Posted on 01/28/2011 8:54:47 AM PST by traumer
Kirksville, Mo. — A report of an armed man acting erratically in the Wal-Mart parking lot Wednesday led to the store being temporarily locked down before Kirksville Police responded to and diffused the situation with no injuries.
According to Kirksville Police Chief Jim Hughes, a passerby stopped a Kirksville Police officer and said they had seen an individual acting erratically in a truck in the Wal-Mart parking lot shortly before 2:30 p.m. The passerby believed the individual had a gun to his head.
"We don't take these things lightly," Hughes said, "especially nowadays."
KPD responded to control the scene and ordered a lockdown of the store both to keep shoppers in and prevent the individual from entering the store.
After identifying the vehicle and person in question, Hughes said a decision was made on the scene for police to attempt contact. They were able to communicate with him and he voluntarily exited the vehicle. No weapon was found and the individual was taken into custody without incident less than 20 minutes after police arrived on scene.
The individual was talking on a cell phone at the time of the incident. It's likely that is the object the passerby identified as a gun.
Hughes said no crime was committed and no additional information, including the person's name, would be released.
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baaaah - baaaaaaaah....
"We don't take these things lightly," Hughes said, "especially nowadays."
So what will happen to the passerby?
Why was he “taken into custody”?
Defused.
Nobody can write anymore.
Oh fercryingoutloud. A cell phone. Trust me, kirksville is redneck central, most people know what a gun looks like here. Must have been a college student who couldn’t tell a phone from a gun.
“We don’t take these things lightly,” Hughes said, “especially nowadays.”
Sooooo you used to take them lightly in the past??!!
Is gun possession illegal in the US then?
I did not know that.
Because these cops apparently never heard of Peelian Principle #9:
9) “The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.”
At least he didn’t end up like the guy who was gunned down for holding a water nozel. (The next door neighbor called in “man with gun”)
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7841376
Too many chicken littles + too many SWAT teams = too many dead innocent folks.
No SWAT in K’ville. This is a college town out in the middle of nowhere. It’s at least 90 minutes from anywhere. LOL.
Yeah, nurse Ratched is watching us, I’m sure. At least until we get a mosque, right?
BTW, it’s creepy how that picture looks like she’s staring into your very soul. ::shudder::
Kirksville with a SWAT team conjures up some really amusing images in my head.
This was truly a moment from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
I had to edit out a few “LOL”’s from my post, for the same reason. K’ville having a SWAT team is just... There are no words! LOL!
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