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Police officer fired after shooting at squirrel in store
UPI ^ | Oct. 25, 2013

Posted on 10/27/2013 1:55:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

Maybe the squirrel was just in there because he clipped a bunch of coupons.


41 posted on 10/27/2013 2:57:49 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Let's make Mark Levin's The Liberty Amendments a reality!)
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To: occamrzr06
How else do you get rid of them?

Most police departments have animal control.

42 posted on 10/27/2013 2:58:36 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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To: Battle Axe
Was this the same squirrel that was loosed in church one Sunday and went up a lady’s dress?

Was the squirrel male or female?

43 posted on 10/27/2013 3:01:28 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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44 posted on 10/27/2013 3:01:50 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: nickcarraway

This cop has to be a complete nitwit.


45 posted on 10/27/2013 3:01:51 PM PDT by 4yearlurker
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To: nickcarraway

They should have called the “Turtle Man”.


46 posted on 10/27/2013 3:02:55 PM PDT by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: philetus

think you are misreading it. He didn’t, “shoot a squirrel,” he discharged a firearm in a crowded store, then gassed it. He has poor judgement and risked a huge incident and many injuries, for what, a small animal?


47 posted on 10/27/2013 3:04:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Joe 6-pack

LOL is that real?


48 posted on 10/27/2013 3:09:15 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: nickcarraway

Officer Tackleberry


49 posted on 10/27/2013 3:10:11 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: nickcarraway

At least he went home safe.


50 posted on 10/27/2013 3:10:37 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: occamrzr06

Flame thrower or hand grenades


51 posted on 10/27/2013 3:11:52 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Flame thrower or hand grenades

Nice touch!

52 posted on 10/27/2013 3:16:58 PM PDT by occamrzr06 (Squirel, it's what's for dinner.)
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To: occamrzr06

Traps, or rat traps with warfarin poison bait. Set out some water— the eat it, overdose and then get real thirsty, drink the water and their kidneys and heart burst. Works quite well, with rats too. this was one dumb guy— shooting at it with service pistol? Nutso. And the pepper spray— would fill the store, and put any asthmatics/elderly into spasms breathing.


53 posted on 10/27/2013 3:19:57 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: philetus
“Police records said Putnam refused to fill out a report, which is required when an officer fires a service weapon.”
Sounds like he wasn’t fired for shooting, but for not filling out a report.

THANK YOU. That was MY first thought. You hit the nail on the head!

54 posted on 10/27/2013 3:22:45 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: nickcarraway

That’s nuts.


55 posted on 10/27/2013 3:27:32 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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56 posted on 10/27/2013 3:28:32 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: Mark17

Why are you trying to inflect your old, tradional views of sexuality on the poor squirrel?


57 posted on 10/27/2013 3:30:15 PM PDT by mykroar (China and Russia are playing chess while Obamas's playing 52 card pick-up.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

But the squirrel could have had rabies or something, I guess.


58 posted on 10/27/2013 3:31:45 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: philetus
Sounds like he wasn’t fired for shooting, but for not filling out a report.

You're probably right about this point.

Usually if the Cop and union rep lawyer say and do the right things after a shooting, it is impossible to fire the cop, and he gets plenty of paid vacation.

59 posted on 10/27/2013 3:35:33 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: mykroar
Why are you trying to inflect your old, tradional views of sexuality on the poor squirrel?

LOL, touché.

60 posted on 10/27/2013 3:36:00 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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