Posted on 02/12/2022 7:30:06 AM PST by Artemis Webb
BOLIVAR, Mo. (KY3) - A 35-year-old Willard man is facing a felony terrorism charge after being accused of threatening one of the coaches on his son’s basketball team.
The incident happened during a high school tournament at Bolivar High School on January 27 in a match-up between a pair of junior varsity teams, Morrisville (Marion C. Early) and Branson.
Bolivar police were called to the gym around 7:40 p.m. on a disturbance call after 35-year-old Bryan Scott Pellham allegedly got upset with one of the coaches for the Morrisville team that his son plays on.
“From our interview, he was upset that a varsity coach was coaching the junior varsity team,” said Lt. Roger Barron, the Bolivar Police investigating officer. “He made the comment after engaging in an argument with the coach that he threatened to kill him. It was something to the effect of ‘I’ll put a red dot on your head and watch the mist appear.’”
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Threat, yes. Terrorism? WTF, America??? A hot-headed verbal tirade is not terrorism.
Terrorism?! A threat against the general public, for political reasons?
I’ve seen parents act crazy at their son’s ball games. Some parents say stupid things and yell even stupider things, like, “kill him!” I watch it happen and even being there can’t imagine what thought process creates this level of inappropriate acts. Growing up, there was one dad, a very muscular man, a city fireman, who coached his sons to beat up other kids in order to take their lawn mowing jobs away from them. These kids had zero friends. I always wondered what happened to them as they were nor socialized well. (They moved away in their young teenage years.)
“felony terrorist charge” for a threat at a kids basketball game
America has entered Soviet territory.
574.115. Making a terrorist threat, first degree — penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of making a terrorist threat in the first degree if such person, with the purpose of frightening ten or more people or causing the evacuation, quarantine or closure of any portion of a building, inhabitable structure, place of assembly or facility of transportation, knowingly:
(1) Communicates an express or implied threat to cause an incident or condition involving danger to life; or
(2) Communicates a false report of an incident or condition involving danger to life; or
(3) Causes a false belief or fear that an incident has occurred or that a condition exists involving danger to life.
2. The offense of making a terrorist threat in the first degree is a class D felony.
3. No offense is committed under this section by a person acting in good faith with the purpose to prevent harm.
I imagine the prosecutor is setting the bar high so that when the plea bargaining comes the penalty will be stiffer than a $30 fine and a lecture from the judge.
I like #3. That could be used to string up the covid tyrants.
Sorry, don’t feel sorry for the guy.
1. He made a SPECIFIC THREAT at a person.
2. He sends his kid to a public school.
He loses.
"Bolivar"
Welcome to the net effect of The Patriot Act comrade. I tried to warn people at the time of passage, but GWB didn’t let the crisis go to waste.
They became union organizers.
1. He made a SPECIFIC THREAT at a person.
***Yeah, that’s illegal and prosecutable as a misdemeanor. But not as a felony terrorism charge. At least it used to be not a terrorism charge until the bullshiite statist Patriot Act was passed.
At my son’s 6th grade basketball finals, parents on the other team repeatedly went out on the court to argue calls with the officials. They would get tossed. Police showed up.
Then their head coach got ejected for cussing out the refs. Their assistant coach finished the game. They lost by three. But then the parents threw stuff - cups, chairs, popcorn, etc - out onto the court.
I’ve never seen anything like that. It would have been a moneymaker on YouTube if I’d filmed it.
My son did a lot of sports growing up (now playing hockey in college) so I’ve seen a lot, but that had to be the worst.
Bolivar is a city in Tennessee.
Thank you ;^)
Also Missouri.
Ever since 9/11, everything is terrorism. Except Moslems and their actions. If anything 9/11 should’ve tightened up the definition. But not in our insane society.
This man was upset just that a varsity was doing JV? Something doesn’t smell right.
Hero firemen.
People really need to stop being in such thralldom to these “heroes”. Any group designated “hero” doesn’t mean every person truly deserves it.
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