[traumer]

baaaah - baaaaaaaah....

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

The passerby believed the individual had a gun to his head.

"We don't take these things lightly," Hughes said, "especially nowadays."

So what will happen to the passerby?

[Fido969]

Why was he “taken into custody”?

[Sherman Logan]

Police responded to and diffused the situation with no injuries.

Defused.

Nobody can write anymore.

[Marie Antoinette]

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.

[Oldpuppymax]

“We don’t take these things lightly,” Hughes said, “especially nowadays.”

Sooooo you used to take them lightly in the past??!!

[agere_contra]

Is gun possession illegal in the US then?

I did not know that.

[Niteranger68]

I don't care what the deal is....nobody will lock me down in a WalMart. I will leave when I want to leave.

[READINABLUESTATE]

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.

[Captain Peter Blood]

This is no doubt a direct result of the DHS and Big Sis running those idiot PSA’s in Wal-Marts around the country.
How many more of these incidents are going to happen before someone innocent gets killed by a Swat Team or Policeman hyped up on adrenaline???????????????

[Biblebelter]

This was truly a moment from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.