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3 Hurt In Hatchet Attack At East Texas Wal-Mart
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Posted on 12/10/2013 8:48:09 AM PST by Morgana

MARSHALL (AP) - Three people have been hurt in a hatchet attack at a Wal-Mart in East Texas and police arrested a transient on assault charges.

Marshall police Detective Sonya Johnson said Monday that Christopher Hamilton of Crawford, Ark., allegedly had the hatchet with him when entering the store. Two female workers and a male shopper were attacked early Sunday.

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TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: hatched; hatchet; retail; sword; texas; walmart
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1 posted on 12/10/2013 8:48:09 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Ramius; skinkinthegrass; Slings and Arrows

Almost a sword ping?


2 posted on 12/10/2013 8:48:44 AM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Hatchet Control, Now!


3 posted on 12/10/2013 8:48:48 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Morgana

Congress must IMMEDIATELY move to ban Walmarts./s


4 posted on 12/10/2013 8:49:40 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: Morgana

Hmmm...bad stuff, getting attacked by a hatchet. Ask my brother, he knows! ‘Course, we were only 5 and 7 at the time...and I didn’t really hit him all that hard...


5 posted on 12/10/2013 8:51:02 AM PST by HiJinx (So, where did 2013 go?)
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To: HiJinx

Playing “Cowboys and Indians” as children?


6 posted on 12/10/2013 8:52:24 AM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Hey, Walmart: Maybe you shouldn’t be ejecting Open Carry customers, hmmmmMMMMMMMMMM???


7 posted on 12/10/2013 8:53:17 AM PST by logi_cal869
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To: Morgana

Sounds like the transient guy was just axing for help.


8 posted on 12/10/2013 8:53:36 AM PST by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: Morgana

Poor customer service. They ignore him when he said, “Let me ax you sumpin’.....”


9 posted on 12/10/2013 8:54:19 AM PST by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: Morgana

10 posted on 12/10/2013 8:55:23 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Morgana

I made my once a year trip to the local Wally World yesterday, I was packing.


11 posted on 12/10/2013 8:57:06 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: HiJinx

You sound like someone I knew years ago.

His older brother put his finger on a log and dared him to cut it off with a hatchet.

Older brother lost that dare.


12 posted on 12/10/2013 8:59:00 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Morgana

I would say based on what Ive read that this is probably another example of the broken mental health system. A local woman here just won a $300,000 settlement after being attacked and hurt in front of her 6 y/o. The assailant in this case had a long history, including self-medication with meth. Even his own father had warned the authorities. (Sound familiar? Families of mental patients are at a disadvantage. They can’t do much.) In Seattle over the past 10 or 15 years, they’ve had scenarios like this with every conceivable kind of weapon. Sometimes the body count is fairly high, as in the Cafe Racer case, other times victims are merely injured. A woman was stabbed to death on New Year’s Eve 2007 a block from my apt. in Seattle. He openly admitted that it was random, that she was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.” It could have been any unarmed person in that neighborhood and everybody knows it. I know that a certain number of bad things will happen and can’t be prevented, but I really think that there are improvements that need to be made in mental health laws. I know that civil libertarians are afraid of abuses in involuntary commitment and I know that’s a serious concern but there has to be a better way than what were doing now. The book that opened my eyes on the history of this is called Madness in the Streets. I forget the author.


13 posted on 12/10/2013 9:10:03 AM PST by crazycatlady
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To: Morgana; Ramius; 300winmag; IrishCatholic; lookout88; Wpin; spetznaz; Smokin' Joe; ...
thanks, for the ping...
SWORD PING!...

14 posted on 12/10/2013 9:10:30 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
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To: Morgana

I used to shop at this Wal-Mart when we lived in Marshall. It was one of the cleanest and better managed Wal-Marts I have shopped at.


15 posted on 12/10/2013 9:11:31 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Morgana
..or could be said "an bladed weapon" ping. :-)

16 posted on 12/10/2013 9:12:11 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
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To: All

Rael Jean Isaac is the author of Madness in The Streets. I don’t agree with her on everything. She’s actually an apologist for lobotomies and electroshock therapy. I don’t agree with that, but she makes some other good points, and explains some of the cultural influences, such as popular books and movies that helped get us to this point. She believes its basically part if the legacy of the 60s.


17 posted on 12/10/2013 9:18:14 AM PST by crazycatlady
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To: Morgana

When hatchets are outlawed, only outlaws will have hatchets.


18 posted on 12/10/2013 9:20:03 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: skinkinthegrass
I'll remember that. However "Sword Ping" just sounds sooo cool.  photo Wonder_Woman_with_Sword_by_JGiampie.jpg
19 posted on 12/10/2013 9:23:02 AM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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Well, the victim in the hatchet attack in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle a few years ago died. The ironic thing in this one is that both guys were mental patients. But the victim was taking his meds, minding his business and behaving himself and the other guy wasn’t. Most hatchets I know of are the kind of thing people take camping and stuff and you could do some damage, especially if its sharp, but even if it isn’t. They’re fairly heavy, for one thing.


20 posted on 12/10/2013 9:25:38 AM PST by crazycatlady
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